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Way more than two usually. The more candidates there are the more chance of the vote being fragmented. So the last thing you'd want is 8 of your party running in the general election. Your chance of losing skyrockets. Better to have just one. So that's why there is a Primary.




It doesn't stop Independents from running. You can still lose.
But the general election is half the battle. Once in office you'll need people with similar agendas if you want any legislation passed.

Independents are a Right wing political party.
Why are you arguing for political parties? Do you not see how they are dumbing the voters down and destroying America?
 
From The Economist:


Here's the paper:
http://www.princeton.edu/~mwatson/papers/Presidents_Blinder_Watson_Nov2013.pdf

And an article from last year discussing the paper:

The U.S. economy does better under Democratic presidents — is it just luck? - The Washington Post

I was surprised that the authors of the paper didn't examine mean reversion, since Democrat-Republican administrations seem to rotate on a fairly regular basis, and one would expect overperformance to lead to underperformance, and vice-versa. In other words, that's the "luck" that the authors seem to refer to.

Also note the discussion in the paper about other countries. This phenomenon seems to reverse in the UK, but disappears in France and Germany.
 
From The Economist:


Here's the paper:
http://www.princeton.edu/~mwatson/papers/Presidents_Blinder_Watson_Nov2013.pdf

And an article from last year discussing the paper:

The U.S. economy does better under Democratic presidents — is it just luck? - The Washington Post

I was surprised that the authors of the paper didn't examine mean reversion, since Democrat-Republican administrations seem to rotate on a fairly regular basis, and one would expect overperformance to lead to underperformance, and vice-versa. In other words, that's the "luck" that the authors seem to refer to.

Also note the discussion in the paper about other countries. This phenomenon seems to reverse in the UK, but disappears in France and Germany.

I think it has more to do with cyclic changes rather than any tangible differences in actual policies pursued by Democrat vs Republican Presidents. Despite all the rhetoric spewed out by both camps, the fundamental economic policies do not differ all that much between them.
 
Many, foreigners and Americans, criticize the odd 'Electoral College' that elects the US President.

These kind of safeguards as there in any respectable democracy. In India, delimitation of seats is done on basis of 1971 Census. It ensure that rights of Southern states, which promoted family planning since 1960's; Christian and Sikhs, who have negative population growth; and Hindus who have attained replacement level fertility rate would not be curtailed due to them being outbred by some groups which does not practice family planning and have 5+ child per family.
 
Life in the US under the tyrant Obama.

Civil asset forfeitures more than double under Obama - The Washington Post

Civil asset forfeitures more than double under Obama

By Christopher IngrahamSeptember 8 at 4:46 PM


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An ongoing investigative series by the Post sheds light on a law enforcement practice known as civil asset forfeiture, in which officials can seize cash or goods from a person suspected of a crime, even if no charges are ever brought against that person. Since 2001, police have seized $2.5 billion in cash from people who were never charged with a crime.

The chart above plots the inflation-adjusted dollar value of allDepartment of Justice asset forfeitures from 1989-2013. It includes both civil asset forfeitures, like the ones discussed in the Post's investigative series, and criminal asset forfeitures, which occur when police seize property from defendants formally accused of a crime.

You can see that the amount seized has risen sharply in the latter half of the last decade; 2012 represented a high-water mark, when approximately $4.6 billion of cash and goods were seized. While the Department of Justice doesn't provide a comparable breakdown of civil versus criminal seizures pre-2008, data since then show that civil asset forfeitures have more than doubled, from $508 million in 2008 to $1.1 billion in 2013.

While many factors likely contribute to the increase, one major component is the rise in post-2001 "stop and seize" traffic stops documented in the Post article.

The Post piece notes that under civil asset forfeiture laws, the burden of proof is on the owner of the assets to show that they are not related to a crime by a legal standard known as preponderance of the evidence. In essence, you're considered guilty until proven innocent.

The process has proven controversial -- this summer Senator Rand Paul introduced a bill to reform the practice, as did Michigan representative Tim Walberg.

Previous attempts at reform have largely been stymied due to intense lobbying from law enforcement groups, for whom asset forfeiture can be a significant source of revenue. From a political standpoint there's something for everyone to hate about the practice. Liberals note that it disproportionately affects poor and minority citizens, while conservatives are inclined to see it as a gross overreach of state power.

For more on the practice, read this 2010 Institute of Justice report.
 
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

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http://online.wsj.com/articles/wave-of-immigrants-to-u-s-resurges-1412899992

Wave of Immigrants to U.S. Resurges
Asians Drive Migrant Growth, but Mexicans Rebound

By
NEIL SHAH
Oct. 9, 2014 8:13 p.m. ET

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Amarildo González entered the U.S. from Guatemala last year. He says his two jobs pay much more than he made back home. Ilana Panich-Linsman for The Wall Street Journal

A strengthening U.S. economy has spurred the largest pickup in immigration since before the recession, driven by Asian newcomers and a gain in Hispanic arrivals.

The number of foreign-born people in the U.S. grew by 523,400 last year, according to the Census Bureau. That beat the previous year’s net gain of roughly 446,800 and is the biggest official jump since 2006. The numbers don’t distinguish between authorized and unauthorized immigrants.

Asian immigrants, including Chinese students and highly skilled workers from India, fueled many of the gains.

Demand among U.S. employers for visas for skilled foreign workers—the so-called H-1B visas dominated by Indian workers—has rebounded. Businesses reached the federal cap on applications in less than a week this year; in 2012, it took three months, and in 2011, eight months, to fill all the slots.

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Nidhin Patel, 25 years old, left India for Los Angeles a year ago. Deciding he wanted to learn about film direction, he enrolled in a master’s program at California State University, Los Angeles and is studying and teaching on a student visa. He hopes to work in the U.S. once his program ends.

Indian students and engineers are coming in droves, Mr. Patel said, despite the strict visa caps. The Internet and social media are making it much easier to settle in the U.S. while staying connected with family back home.

“I never had any kind of culture shock,” Mr. Patel said. Often, Indians are “already settled [in the U.S.] before they come” thanks to Internet research.

Meanwhile, Hispanic immigration is picking up, after slowing to a trickle in recent years as weak job and home-construction markets prompted many workers—often less-educated and in the U.S. illegally—to return home.

Fully 27% of last year’s new immigrants were Hispanic, compared with about 10% in 2012 and less than 1% in 2011, census figures show. More Mexicans came to the U.S. last year than left—a notable shift after several years in which the opposite happened.

The current year’s numbers will be skewed higher by the tens of thousands of child migrants from Central America who entered the U.S. unaccompanied this spring and summer, a surge that has subsided.

With construction work perking up, Texas has seen a “real rise” in Hispanic immigrants, said Cristina Tzintzún, executive director of the Workers Defense Project, a Austin group that trains and advocates for low-wage workers.

Amarildo González, 27, is among them. Despite working for 10 years in his native Guatemala picking fruit, he was barely making enough to support his girlfriend and their three young children—$150 every 15 days, he said.

Last year, he paid a group over $3,000 to help him cross the Texas border illegally. He found work the day after arriving in Dallas. He now has two jobs, despite his illegal immigration status, in construction and in a furniture store in a mall.

“We are all used to working, since we’re young, for little money,” he said. “When we come here, we find we can make $80 a day.”

Annual growth in the U.S. foreign-born population remains lower than the 800,000 or so average of a decade ago. Tighter borders, along with declining fertility and increased economic opportunities in Mexico, make it unlikely Hispanic immigration will surge the way it did in the 1990s—leaving Asians the dominant force.

But the census data show that six years after the recession began, America is restoring its reputation as an economic beacon among immigrants, even as other nations, including in Asia, become more attractive. If demand for high-skilled workers grows and Hispanic immigration revives, that could also mean U.S. businesses are feeling more bullish about the economy’s prospects.

“Some of the things limiting immigration in recent years—a bad job market, less demand for workers—is easing,” said demographer William Frey of the Brookings Institution, who analyzed the census data.

America’s Mexico-born population marks the biggest wave of immigration from a single country in U.S. history, but the recession helped bring that to a halt.

Now there are signs of a shift: The Mexico-born population grew by nearly 22,000 last year, on net, after shrinking about 109,000 in 2012 as more Mexicans left the U.S. than came, Mr. Frey said.

Roughly 1.4 million Mexicans and their children left the U.S. for Mexico between 2005 and 2010, according to Pew Research Center, a think tank.

Another sign of the stronger U.S. economy: Money sent by Mexicans abroad to individuals back home has bounced back. More than $2 billion in such remittances flowed into Mexico in August, the vast majority from the U.S., up from $1.9 billion a year earlier and $1.3 billion in January 2010, figures from Mexico’s central bank show.

On Monday, the World Bank said remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean could grow 5% this year, also largely from the U.S., up from a weak 1% in 2013.

Pew estimates there were 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. as of March 2013, compared to 11.2 million in 2012, an increase that isn’t statistically significant.
 
MURRIETA RESIDENTS: OBAMA ADMIN FLOODING OUR STREETS TO 'FORCE IMMIGRATION REFORM'

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HOUSTON, Texas--Furious protesters in Murrieta, California have made it clear that they oppose the federal government's apparent desire to send busloads of illegal immigrants from South Texas to their area. Many Murrieta residents claim that the town is being targeted unfairly for political reasons--some even assert that the Obama Administration is attempting to dump the immigrants in "small town America" to force immigration reform.
Last week a large group of protesters blocked a bus full of migrants from arriving at a "housing facility." That vehicle turned back, and several more busloads of illegal immigrants was expected to enter the town on Monday. Breitbart Texas broke the news that federal agents planned to bring riot gear and shields to ensure the successful delivery of the immigrants. Those plans, however, were thwarted by protesters yet again.
At this point it is unclear if federal authorities still plan on sending migrants to Murrieta--whatever the case, many of the town's residents remain vehemently opposed to the idea.
John Henry, a Murrieta resident since 1991, has been protesting the illegal immigrants' arrival for the past week. He told Breitbart Texas, "This is a small town--it's mostly conservative--and the federal government knows that. The main reason a lot of us are out here protesting is because we do not want these people being dumped into our small town where we do not have programs or the resources to take care of them properly."
Authorities apparently intend to house the migrants in a Murrieta-based Border Patrol station--Henry claims the facility is not equipped to handle a large number of individuals.
"In the Border Patrol station where they want to take these people, there are only five holding cells," Henry said. "There are no showers, and there's only one toilet in each cell. There's really no place to give them hot food and no beds. There's nothing here for them--we literally don't have any way to take care of these people."
He added, "We additionally don't have any places for these people to go after they are processed."
Subsequent to spending a relatively short amount of time in a processing center--where taxpayer subsidized benefits such as education, recreation vocational training, and legal counsel are administered--most of the illegal immigrants are set free on U.S. soil. They promise to appear in court for an immigration hearing at a later date, but most of them never show up.
Henry, and many of the protesters joining him, believe their town was unfairly targeted as a destination for the migrants. Some believe the busloads are being sent to small, largely conservative towns, like Murrieta to send a political message.
"The administration thinks that if it floods our streets, in small town america, they can force us into immigration reform," Henry said. "These immigrants should not be here. The only reason that they are coming here is for political reasons."
Jeremy Oliver, a resident of Temecula, California--a town that neighbors Murrieta--said that the local residents are typically very welcoming, but that in this instance they are being taken advantage of.
Oliver told Breitbart Texas, "If this was one busload of refugees, this town would come together and take care of these kids. Even if it was 10 busloads they would do it. But when you ask the government, 'When is it going to end?' they wont tell you. So how do you deal with the problem they wont tell you the extent of it?"
On June 4th Breitbart Texas' Managing Director Brandon Darby broke the news that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would be relocating illegal immigrants from Texas to California. Within moments of that story being published, the official Twitter account of the San Diego CBP tweeted at Darby, insisting the report was “erroneous” and asking for it to be removed from the internet.
Days later the San Diego CBP deleted the tweet from their official account. Subsequent reports, outlining plans to fly immigrants to Southern California, proved CBP had indeed planned the relocation all along.

Murrieta Residents: Obama Admin Flooding Our Streets to 'Force Immigration Reform'

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Sticky please.


Thank you for starting this thread, Bro.
 
U.S. Says Ties With Baku 'Jeopardized' By Crackdown

Assistant Secretary of State Tom Malinowski told that Washington is concerned about Azerbaijan's recent crackdown on rights activists and journalists.
Speaking on the news program "Current Time" on December 18, Malinowski said U.S. officials have been involved in "very serious discussions" with Azerbaijani officials about the recent detentions of rights activists such as Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif as well as Khadija Ismayilova, an investigative journalist .Malinowski said U.S. officials have made clear "the relationship they [Azerbaijan] have with the United States is jeopardized by the crackdown on civil society."
Malinowski said, "Nobody in Azerbaijan, or frankly anywhere, should be imprisoned for the peaceful expression of their views of for engaging in journalism."
He said the United States "wants to see these people released immediately, including" Ismayilova.
 
Who is the most shining candidate of Presidency or the most popular one between Americans?
 
Who is the most shining candidate of Presidency or the most popular one between Americans?
99% chance it's another idiot Democrat/Republican. They both shine like turd down a toilet. :coffee:
 
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