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Are congressional elections not local? I thought each represented a district, and the senate represented halfs of states? I never said any third party has a chance this election, but if a third party pulled 20% of the seats in congress, wouldn't that lend them more of a shot? Honestly, building third parties takes time, but eventually they can have a shot. As much as it pains me to say it, the greens here are now winning youth votes (basically votes in high schools for people 18 and under), and although not every high school student will stay green, it shows a hopeful future for them. Also, Canada has national elections, the country votes for their parliamentary representative altogether, the leader then of the party that garners the most seats is prime minister. Unless what you mean is do we vote for our leader independently of our local representative? No, but it's basically the same thing, the leader determines the policies and puts whips on votes so almost everyone votes based on leader and not local rep. This leader also appoints senators as old ones retire, so not to vote based on leader is unadvised. In Canada the opposite of national elections are provincial elections, where we elect our provincial leader and local provincial legislators. I don't know how individual states vote for local leaders to know how different things are in America.
Either way, it's the two party thinking in the presidential election that I think poisons a lot of the other elections, but that's speculation.
Horatius Cocles, Phydios, and Clear Bay
https://www.babylonbee.com/news/socialist-steps-on-another-rake-insisting-that-79-previous-attempts-werent-real-stepping-on-a-rake
https://www.babylonbee.com/news/homeschool-mom-goes-on-brisk-morning-jog-with-18-seat-stroller
https://www.babylonbee.com/news/saudi-crown-prince-calls-jeff-bezos-just-to-ask-him-about-his-dog-mothers-maiden-name-and-his-first-car
The Babylon Bee is really batting a thousand today.
In relation to elections, the Republic of Ireland will be going to the polls on 8th February to elect a new government. The polls are, to say the least, encouraging.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/poll
Phydios and United massachusetts
Anyone else make it to the march today?
Phydios, Clear Bay, Knechting, and Gallifrey Ireland
Wish I could have.
United massachusetts and Clear Bay
As a complete baseball ignoramus I only learned this year that the saying wasn’t “batting 100.” Anyway, some of my coworkers at my old job had a good chuckle at my expense before they told me batting 100 was actually awful.
Horatius Cocles, Phydios, and Clear Bay
They are!
Senators are elected, nowadays anyway, by the entire population of the state every 6 years (but you never vote for both senators at the same time, unless there's a special election), not 1/2 the state. In the old days they were appointed by the legislature of each state. Representatives in the House have to win a district, but the districts change so frequently, have no geographical/historical reality, and are some massive (around 500,000 people) that they are definitely not local. For these reasons it would also be harder for an outside party to win even one district than it is in Canada.
Aawia, Horatius Cocles, and Lagrodia
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-merely-sharing-gospel-porn-star-explains-jim-bakker
Phydios and Lagrodia
The polls are hardily encouraging if you ask me, as they don't show a single vote going to a genuinely conservative party.
There is no 'genuine' conservative party In the South of Ireland, any of noteworthiness at least!
Fine Gael have turned into a mix of social and neo liberals, Fianna Fáil being their populist selves will do and say anything for power, whilst using republican rhetoric as window dressing to mobilise their base, and Sinn Féin is a socialist, Irish nationalist and republican party. Conservatism is to say the least extremely under represented in Irish politics right now.
The Gallant Old Republic, United massachusetts, and Lagrodia
Fianna Fail > Fine Gael any day of the week.
Sinn Fein > both of them
The Catholic State of Eire and Lagrodia
Trump went correct? Wasn't he the first president ever to attend?
Phydios and United massachusetts
Yeah.
He made it a bit too partisan for my liking though.
Horatius Cocles, United massachusetts, and Knechting
I know, that's why I said it.
I'm curious, what makes you like Fianna Fail over Fine Gael? They're both center-right, and I have a hard time understanding the difference in their ideology.
Irish politics is unique, our politics, in the South of Ireland, was divided on whether if you were pro or anti treaty, the treaty being the Anglo-Irish Treaty (1921). The short story being Fianna Fáil is an anti treaty party and Fine Gael is a pro treaty party. When it comes to the traditional left-right dichotomy there is little difference in both of them and people are now beginning to realise this.
The Gallant Old Republic, Horatius Cocles, and United massachusetts
Fine Gael pretends it is center-right while pushing neo-liberal nonsense, much like the bulk of the UK Conservative party, Fianna Fail does this also, but less extremely, sort of like the National Party in Australia.
Yay! Missed you guys :D
https://www.google.com/amp/s/newrepublic.com/amp/article/156374/democratic-hawks-declare-war-bernie-sanders
As someone that ranks foreign policy among my top concerns, it's this very topic that separates Sanders from Warren and the rest of the democratic field. Warren's views on foreign policy definitely make her my second choice as opposed to first.
Hello, I made this account but i realize that im not gonna use this lol. I moved here bc i admire ur cause, but I need help figuring out on how to delete my nationstates account. Couldnt find it in settings. Thanks guys, and i hope ur nations do well.
You can't delete your nation. You can only stop logging in, and it will "cease to exist" in 28 days unless you turn on Vacation Mode. (But that isn't a true deletion, because you can always choose to revive it for at least five years afterward.)
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