If the vote has been counted correctly, Mark Greene received 3% of the vote for the United States House of Representatives office in the 9th District, and maybe that'll go up a point by the time they're finished counting. This means that most of the rest of the 96% - 97% probably voted according to whatever party label they have affixed onto in the past: (D) or (R), and we kind of doubt if the majority in the overall aggregate vote count read the voters' pamphlet comprehensively. Voting on automatic pilot hardly ensures good governance, but it will definitely ensure the status quo.
It's hard to see how 2 out of 3 voters could vote for Adam Smith in the left-of-center 9th District if they actually knew how this congressman has put the country on the wrong road with his brand of "Blue Dog"/"Boll Weevil" politics. Do those who voted for Smith care if we have a right to habeas corpus, as guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, anymore? As for the little weekly paper that said Smith was an "effective liberal," we don't know what they're on, but Smith is neither effective nor a liberal. Smith is a right-wing, global interventionist Democrat in the Bill Clinton/Tony Coelho mold.
As for the 1 out of 20 people who voted for Don Rivers, surely they have never laid eyes on this blog or the F.E.C. records, because I'm sure virtually no one would vote for somebody that can't even figure out what congressional district he's running in is. As for the 1 out of 4 people who voted for Doug Basler, at least they voted for the lone standard bearer of their party who has no political record to examine or criticize, but plenty of platitudes coming from his writings to latch onto.
Only 3% of the 9th District electorate stand out as enlightened, similar to the few 19th century American abolitionists, but it only takes a few to start the first waves of national reform that could transform the nation and lead us out of history's latest dark ages.
[revised on 8/12/14]
It's hard to see how 2 out of 3 voters could vote for Adam Smith in the left-of-center 9th District if they actually knew how this congressman has put the country on the wrong road with his brand of "Blue Dog"/"Boll Weevil" politics. Do those who voted for Smith care if we have a right to habeas corpus, as guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, anymore? As for the little weekly paper that said Smith was an "effective liberal," we don't know what they're on, but Smith is neither effective nor a liberal. Smith is a right-wing, global interventionist Democrat in the Bill Clinton/Tony Coelho mold.
As for the 1 out of 20 people who voted for Don Rivers, surely they have never laid eyes on this blog or the F.E.C. records, because I'm sure virtually no one would vote for somebody that can't even figure out what congressional district he's running in is. As for the 1 out of 4 people who voted for Doug Basler, at least they voted for the lone standard bearer of their party who has no political record to examine or criticize, but plenty of platitudes coming from his writings to latch onto.
Only 3% of the 9th District electorate stand out as enlightened, similar to the few 19th century American abolitionists, but it only takes a few to start the first waves of national reform that could transform the nation and lead us out of history's latest dark ages.
[revised on 8/12/14]
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