Voters: "A Pox on Both Parties"
American voters are disgusted with both parties
and yearn for real ballot choices.
Voters are angry.
Gallup polling shows the percentage of Americans identifying as independents grew over the course of 2013, surging to 46% in the fourth quarter. The self-identified independent voters far outnumber either the Democrats or the Republicans.
Lack of Free Elections - 46% of voters are pissed and call themselves independents because, from their point of view, the elections have no meaning. These voters have no choices on election day. The U.S. is the only democratic nation on earth where the same two parties "magically" win 100% of all of the Congressional elections.
The entire point of an election is to bring in new candidates that represent the people. But our winning candidates do not represent the voters. Instead they are bought and paid for by a centralized special interest money machine in Washington D.C.
Until there is election reform these voters will continue to feel unrepresented.
See the full poll at Gallup.com/poll
Results are based on aggregated telephone interviews from 13 separate Gallup polls conducted in 2013, with a random sample of 18,871 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±1 percentage point at the 95% confidence level.
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Back When America Had Free Elections
In the olden days it was not unusual to see anywhere from three to five political parties elected to Congress. There have always been two major parties in the U.S. But angry voters often elected smaller parties on a regular basis so their views, often ignored by Washington, could be heard..
As late as 1946 there were still four political parties in the House of Representatives: Democrats, Republicans, Progressives and American Labor. Today the big money special interest groups, combined with huge district size, have taken over the election process with millions spent on each House seat. Big money corruption has abolished free multi-party elections so the voters have only two meaningful ballot choices.
Below is an example of one of the many pre-World War II free elections in America.
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Elections to the House of Representatives for the 36th Congress were held in 1858.
Following these elections, the Republicans gained control of the House for the first time, benefiting from the continued breakdown in the anti-immigration and anti-Catholic American Party of the Know Nothing Movement, and from strife within the Democratic Party.
The Republicans were actually several seats short of a numerical majority and were forced to form a minority government, but were able to exercise authority by mustering support from members of smaller parties. The deeply divided Democrats continued to fall apart due to the slavery issue, losing a number of seats, and the American Party all but collapsed.
A number of former Whigs who were dissatisfied with their short membership in the Republican Party, as well as some former Know Nothings, formed the Opposition Party, which generally allied more with the Republicans than Democrats.
For several states, this was the last Congressional election until the Reconstruction Era, and 29 of the Representatives elected in this election resigned near the end of the Congress following their states' secession from the Union.
For more go to House of Representatives elections - 1858
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