'When Electorates Turn Angry' = They All Better Watch Out

[Me.]

When electorates turn angry
By Chuck Todd

‘WASHINGTON - Just how angry is the electorate?

Perhaps angrier than any of us imagined. It's not just anger, however, that voters are expressing toward politicians.

It appears to be downright distrust with the government itself. Tuesday’s election results may not have seen any high profile upsets for political figures (I don’t consider the scandal-plagued Kentucky governor’s loss an upset) but rather, an avalanche of rejections for new government proposals.

Ask yourself, how is it that a conservative and religious electorate in Utah said no to state government leaders who wanted to start a private school voucher program, while more liberal, secular voters in New Jersey struck down a proposal to expand stem cell research?

Or how is it that a left-of-center, usually pro-government electorate in Oregon said no to a cigarette tax increase to pay for expanded health care?

All of this happened during Tuesday’s off-year elections.

In fact, across the board it appears when presented with a choice to give government the power to start or transform a program, voters said no.’ cont….…

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21677344/

[annabanana]

1. And Grover is rubbing his hands and filling the bathtub.. . n/t

[Me.]

4. I'm Thinking It's Grover Who Is Going To Be Drowning In That Tub Of His

They aren't saying they want less government, they want different government. I also noted, though this article doesn't mention it, the corporatists in Venice, Florida got a kick to the backside and the Virginia Senate went dem which will stop Davis' attempt at gerrymandering.

[H2O Man]

2. That's an interesting

article. I think it is worth our including it in our e-mails to congress on the issue of impeachment.

Nominated.

[MichiganVote]

3. $$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$....its the dollars and NO SENSE that's making people

question the lack of sanity going on.

[Democrats_win]

5. These are funky votes. Denver passed all 8 tax increases to make life better here.

A better life is what Colorado is about when our minority GOP isn't scaring us.

BTW, our GOP is stranger than your GOP: Tom Tancredo, Doug Bruce (all those tax limitation amendments in 2006 are modeled on his idea), and Coors (founders of the Heritage F-nation).

[Me.]

7. A Shocked Friend Told Me They Passed

taxes to help fund the arts....

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Tom Paine

The voters are starting to catch on.

[Me.]

8. Yep

and I like that it's starting at the local level, housecleaning from the bottom up

[rockybelt]

9. Voters

Voters are catching on but will the "elected officials" ever catch on?
I think that they have insulated themselves so well from the truth and their real constituants that they couldn't care less about us peons and what we want.

IMPEACHMENT is the only thing that will shake them from their tree.

[Me.]

11. I Think They Will Catch On

When they're smacking themselves in the head after their lost election.

:spank:

[cascadiance]

10. We need to demand ALL new candidates prioritize a referendum process...

We need a process to allow a citizen recall, no-confidence vote or something of that nature that doesn't rely on government entities that ALL have become corrupt to replace a corrupt government when it exists. We need to have an added check. Even if it requires a supermajority vote of citizens, I think we might have a time where we'd have that many votes to do a major replacement of politicians now!