Web Letters: Does a Democratic Majority Matter?

By GRIT TV

July 6, 2009

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  • It makes no difference. If anything, they may spend more money we do not have. Something happens when people get elected, they lose all comprehension between Main St vs. Wall St. vs Wash St. It becomes a country club atmosphere where anything goes.

    Roy Salazar

    Midland , Tx

    07/07/2009 @ 12:41pm


  • The bigger your majority, the more legislators will be coming from swing-vote districts, and the less clout the party ideology will have. The legislator has to follow the will of the people of his district or lose next time. This is true of any party in any legislative body at any level.

    All have conflicting voter pressures to balance, and the result is coalitions. For one possibility, it could be that the anti-abortion bloc cuts a deal to save the healthcare bill with their issue.

    That's why all this RINO/DINO purity bunk is such self-defeating nonsense.

    John D. Froelich

    Upper Darby, PA

    07/06/2009 @ 10:55pm


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