[lbo-talk] FW: Help Defeat Question 3

[nathanne at nathannewman.org]

>
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
The "fifty years of academic
> research showing that such elections favor the Republican Party" turn out
> to have a caveat:  "except at very high levels of Democratic voter
> registration."  Which of course includes New York, where Democrats
> outnumber Republicans 5 to 1.

But nonpartisan races do favor conservative Democrats.

The ideal of conservatives is to have nonpartisan races in highly
Democratic areas, and partisan races in GOP areas.  This would lead to
conservative Democrats and rightwing Republicans being the main
politicians.

And what do you know- the GOP is pushing nonpartisan elections in
California and major cities, while promoting strong partisan divisions in
conservative states like Texas.

Look at the big strategy here-- they are trying to move the whole specturm
rightward through cynical, selective arguments.  You'll never see the GOP
promoting nonpartisan elections where they are dominant.

-- NN