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[GreatJustice]

But yeah, the Republicans really need to rebrand, or they'll collapse. Personally I hope they collapse. It'd be interesting to watch the political landscape realign.

As much as I dislike both parties, I suspect that the wholesale collapse of one of the parties would be a disaster in the present political landscape. For all their problems, at least they are sufficiently evenly balanced to keep their opposite number from going too far in pushing it's agenda ahead. If either collapsed and the electoral system remained as it stands right now, it would be trivial for the remaining "big party" to ram through whatever it felt like ramming through.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

The Democrats are capable of some stupidity, but nothing like what the Republicans try to do constantly, even when they're out of power. I would accept a Democrat supermajority for an election cycle or two if it meant being rid of our current breed of Republican.

[Lord Shonus]

Besides which, the Democrats are a coalition. Even if the GOP collapsed, it would be very difficult for the Dems to push any one agenda, as their support base is widely divided on almost all issues.

[Bohandas]

**Though as far as I'm aware Rock and Roll is totally legal everywhere.

Not on broadcast/non-satellite radio. Not the good heavy metal songs at any rate; the ones with the swearing and the disturbing imagery.

[Angle]

Besides which, if the republicans collapse, the democrats will probably follow suit as the various factions within start peeling off and looking for better alliances.

ninja-d! I totally wrote this post before Lord Shonus, if that means anything.

damnit, stop that.

[misko27]

Finally, someone is getting ppunished for the republicans ridiculously high pre-election polls.

I mean, they were predicting Romney would win 325 electoral votes. Think about how wrong that is. It is the exact opposite of reality.
 
 

Besides which, the Democrats are a coalition. Even if the GOP collapsed, it would be very difficult for the Dems to push any one agenda, as their support base is widely divided on almost all issues.

My favorite Political Joke: "Democrats are the party of no ideas, and republicans are the party of bad ideas."

[Bohandas]

You parsed the quote tree wrong!

[Lord Shonus]

ninja-d! I totally wrote this post before Lord Shonus, if that means anything.
damnit, stop that.

I think that's worth a signature.

[misko27]

You parsed the quote tree wrong!

Alright fixed.

[GreatJustice]

Besides which, the Democrats are a coalition. Even if the GOP collapsed, it would be very difficult for the Dems to push any one agenda, as their support base is widely divided on almost all issues.

That would probably be the ideal result, but partisanship is quite high these days, and I can't help but think of examples where the modestly Democratic district votes straight party Democrat even when the candidate is clearly a gigantic crook/sellout/etc.

Actually, that's a huge problem in states overwhelmingly controlled by one party or the other. Take Texas, for instance. It's pretty well owned by the Republicans right now, and voters almost always vote on party lines, not ideology. So what keeps happening there is that the Democratic districts vote in Democrats and then a lot of the safely Republican districts vote in oddly moderate Republicans solely because they're incumbents running as Republicans. The opposite is the case in states like, say, Oregon or even Vermont.

Inversely, sometimes the "swing" states have far more ideologically pure candidates despite nominally being moderate. New Hampshire in particular has a legislature filled with alternating right wing and left wing radicals depending on election season. Incumbents are regularly kicked out, and neither party is capable of completely pushing its own agenda.

[OREOSOME]

I have to say, it seems that the majority of my schoolmates in our mock election who voted for Mitt Romney, simply on the basis that he was planning on Legalizing Marijuana.

[Darvi]

It's disappointing how many people would vote somebody on the basis of agreeing on a single issue regardless of their other policies.

[Bohandas]

Besides which, the Democrats are a coalition. Even if the GOP collapsed, it would be very difficult for the Dems to push any one agenda, as their support base is widely divided on almost all issues.

My favorite Political Joke: "Democrats are the party of no ideas, and republicans are the party of bad ideas."

This is one of my favorite quotes too.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

When I was in Kindergarten I voted for Gore in the mock election based off of the criteria that I thought he had better hair than Bush.

But then, when I was older, I went back and looked at the election, and I was right, he did have better hair than Bush!

[Angle]

The reason I added that was because our posts were very similar, even featuring the same language.

as for quotes, I gotta go with "I am not a member of an organized political party. I am a Democrat."