Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Voters reject ideological agendas of both parties - Darrell Delamaide's Political Capital - MarketWatch

Voters reject ideological agendas of both parties - Darrell Delamaide's Political Capital - MarketWatch: "In Ohio, voters handed a stinging rebuke to Gov. John Kasich and repealed his law restricting the right of public-sector unions to collective bargaining. These rights were won at too high a cost to give them up so easily.

In Maine, voters whistled back an overenthusiastic Gov. Paul LePage and vetoed the Legislature’s repeal of the provision allowing voters to register on Election Day. There is no more fundamental right in a democracy than being able to vote, and the diverse efforts by Republicans to restrict voting rights are misguided.

In Mississippi, one of the most conservative states in the nation, voters rejected the so-called “personhood” amendment that attempted to impose a single, simplistic concept of life, ignoring the entire legal, philosophical and social debate on this vexed subject and infringing what has been established as a woman’s right to choose.

Voters have caught on that some of these ideologues are willfully misinterpreting supposed “mandates” and exploiting an electorate looking for some simple governance by imposing an extremist agenda."

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