Tag: politics
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Leave or change–the filibuster & the electoral college
Compared to my reflection on the Primaries this one will be fairly short. I wish to discuss these two topics because they are much in the news, at least sporadically, and I think the public discussion of them has been over-simplified. Politicians, editorial writers and others just shouting/writing “Dump It” or “Keep It” seems…
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How we got here–the(more or less)midentury primaries
The 1920’s brought serious changes to the society and the world and this included the US Primary system. In the 3 elections of the decade the old, boss-run system produced, for the GOP, candidates, Warren G Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. For the Dems in was Ohio Gov James Cox, WV millionaire John W…
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Saturday thoughts
It is ironic that I chose this time to start a blog. I meant it to offer an opportunity to share some things I had long considered and maybe some new ones. I had no idea I might wind up starting at the time of a terrible world crisis. Here I am all the same…
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