Over 75% of voters want maximum age limit for elected officials, poll shows
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Over three-fourths of Americans think there should be a maximum age limit for elected officials, according to a CBS News/YouGov survey.
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I think term limits would be 90% effective. That and fixing gerrymandered districts. How many of those old folks in the House have been cruising to easy reelection due to rigged voting districts? Limit the House to 5 terms and the Senate to 2 terms. That's a maximum of 22 years someone could be a federal elected politician excluding the presidency. That's more than enough time to leave their mark on the country.
Term limits, no gerrymandering, ranked choice voting, and more than two political parties.
I think no gerrymandering would absolutely nuke the red presence. Honestly looking at how bad the district maps are it's insane it's even gotten that far.
The only way to eliminate gerrymandering is to eliminate geographically-defined congressional districts.
I think we should empanel our congressional delegation in statewide elections. I also think we shouldn't have 435 votes in the house. I think we should have one vote for each person in the country. I think each representative should cast one vote for each actual person they represent.
We already have more than two parties, its just almost nobody votes for them. With rank choice voting they'll be more visible than they are today.
Certainly, but they're not given the same slice as D and R. Laws should help balance the scales.
The problem with no gerrymandering is that it’s actively hard to enforce without false positives
Everything is hard if you're trying to do it right, especially large scale. Babies with crayons draw better maps than what happened/is happening in Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, etc.
Oh yeah no there does absolutely need to be a criminal threshold and Ohio and Florida are past it. At the bare minimum it needs to cost you your seat if you pull the shit ohio keeps pulling.
As an Ohioan at no point has my vote for representatives ever mattered even when it should. It’s not like nyc or something, fucking Cincinnati shouldn’t be 3 red seats.
I think term limits on the presidency meant that Trump ran against Clinton instead of Obama.
Obama was more popular than Clinton.
Hillary, Why pick her over anyone else when her stigma was so intensely negitive? Isnt their goal to get their person in that chair via the election.
That's okay and that's the democracy we chose.
I would have rather had a third term of Obama than what we got with Trump, and I think term limits for the presidency were a shortsighted mistake.
I... appreciate that sentiment, but I also fear how history has taught us long terms can lead to leader who... don't wanna leave. Of course that didn't stop trump from trying.
And he had the same term limits as anyone else since 1951. Who fought the peaceful transition of power prior to 1951?