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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
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  • Subject: [Homestead] Political power imbalance
  • Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:52:18 -0700


On Nov 4, 2008, at 10:49 AM, DSanner106 AT aol.com wrote:

What worries me far more is one party having complete control of both
branches of congress with a filibuster proof majority and the white house.

That is a legitimate and common concern. Many of us suffered through the first six years of Bush rule and came out still alive at the end. A filibuster-proof Senate majority is unlikely but here is something pertinent that may comfort those of us concerned about the potential imbalance of power:

. . . And history suggests that filibuster-proof majorities often work better on paper than on Capitol Hill. Ask President Franklin Roosevelt. He had an overwhelming majority in the Senate in the mid-1930s, but couldn't pack the Supreme Court because of opposition from Southerners in his own party. President John Kennedy had 65 Democrats in the Senate, but couldn't get his civil rights bill called up for a vote.

"The numbers can be very beguiling," says Ross Baker, a professor of political science at Rutgers University. But, he added, they often don't prove to be quite as valuable as they appear.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96513695
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Various reports show that poll workers don't know the laws of their state regarding ID materials and registration rules and provisional ballots. So, how to deal with this problem? Who would you prefer to be running your local polling place? If locals, how to get them trained?




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