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Home Front: Politix
Obama Ignores Congress Because He Thinks It Lacks Legitimacy
2015-03-26
"If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country, because the people who tend not to vote are young; they're lower income; they're skewed more heavily towards immigrant groups and minority groups; and they're often the folks who are -- they're scratching and climbing to get into the middle class."

So that's his sentiment. More voters -- no matter that they have less than low-information and can't be bothered to vote except at gunpoint -- make for a better democracy.
Posted by:Hupineger Glomomp52169

#8  And if the Pubs were smart and everyone was forced to vote they'd just have a bunch of pro-pot rallies in the weeks before election day and all those previous non-voters might get really confused.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-03-26 14:45  

#7  If everyone was forced to vote the young college students who can't be bothered might actually research the issues and might be less liberal in the way they voted.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-03-26 14:44  

#6  In America the people vote, in Soviet People's Republic we vote for you!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2015-03-26 10:51  

#5  
Posted by: Greaper Sproing2662   2015-03-26 08:41  

#4  As noted before, dictators and other tyrants have votes, plebiscites that get 98+ percent of the vote.

Ultimately, it's not the ballots in the box that count. It's what Lincoln phrased as the 'willingness to give the last full measure of devotion'. Then that disappears, so do governments.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-03-26 07:46  

#3  So he 'knows' the majority of the people 'really' want what he wants, but they don't bother to vote for concgresscritters? Because they're not 'legitimate"? Because not everyone voted for them, or because they don't agree with Champ?

Does he also walk the corridors of the White House, talking to the portraits?
Posted by: Bobby   2015-03-26 07:44  

#2  UH, uh, AS OPPOSED TO A LEGIT = STRONG COMMIE-STYLE PRESIDIUM + POLITBURO???

just wonderin'.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-03-26 03:00  

#1  Alot of ppl thinks the presidency lacks legitimacy now.
Posted by: chris   2015-03-26 00:12  

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