Independants having a better chance for office?

[Scoutfish 16]

NOw, let's be clear...I am not supporting any independant for office, or any particulat independant.

 

But in the past, we know they never get close to having a substantial amount of votes to win.

 

But after the last couple of years, the infighting and ..well, DEms and Reps just acting like kindergarteners over everything, the Dems being Bullheaded, the REps doing the same( admit it, if one side said fire was hot, the other side would say it is cold just because it was a different answer)....

 

 

I'd bet that this election will give the Indepndants one of the best shots of winning tey ever had.

 

Not saying they will win . Probably not by a long shot - but they will have had the best shot they ever had yet.

 

Bet if he was still running for office, Ross Perot would put up some serious competition for Obama and whoever the other guy will be.

[Basementdweller 608]

Yes the Tea Party and that woman from up north have castrated the Republican party. It will be a democrat in the white house, whether it is the presiding man or not is be seen.

 

The United States needs to go one a HUGE budgetary diet. We need to understand that the government cannot spend us out of a recession or depression.

 

 

We the people's voices are lost in the screams and moneys of the special interest groups and big business.

 

 

 

 

[CalicoPenn 729]

"We need to understand that the government cannot spend us out of a recession or depression."

 

I don't understand where this idea that government can't spend it's way out a recession or a depression. It certainly doesn't come from our own history where the only thing that has consistently worked is for government to spend our way out a recession or depression.

[Basementdweller 608]

Fair enough, CCC worked.....WWII brought us out of the big one. All out war will cure a depression, no argument there. Most if not everything was manufactured in the United States, so buying our way out was possible.

 

We spent a trillion dollars and it hasn't worked. At the top of the pile looking down in may have worked. But from the bottom looking up it doesn't seem to have worked.

 

They hired the big companies do run these projects, they did not hire additional staff. The goods or materials bought were foreign in origin.

 

You need to also remember this is a world wide recession, just now the US's problem.

 

 

 

 

[Kahuna 172]

No independent can win the next election. Maybe sometime down the road.

 

And, no, the Republicans WILL put the Democrats out of the White House.