How would you get all voters to agree on anything?

Carolina, it is not necessary to get all the voters to do anything in concert. Nor is it necessary for ALL incumbents to lose their seats in a single election. Both of which would be impossible to achieve, anyway.

What IS necessary, is for a sufficient number of voters to vote out their incumbents to produce, for the political analysts and campaign managers, statistics showing a reelection rate closer to 50% rather than the current 90% plus average.

If incumbents (and challengers) are told by their analysts and managers that the election statistics show the incumbent has only a coin's toss chance of being reelected in any given election, that politician, out of a sense of political survival, will conclude that his wealthy campaign donors and lobbyists are no longer insuring his reelection. Instead, the anti-incumbent voters are in control of the politician's election odds. Therefore, nearly all the incumbents and freshman politicians will elevate the issues of the anti-incumbent voters on their priority list, and represent those issues in order to increase their chances of getting reelected.

No politician wants a coin toss to decide their reelection bid. Registered independent voters now outnumber either registered Democratic or Republican voters. If a simple majority of independent voters vote anti-incumbent, the reelection percentage will drop below 75%. The number of registered independent voters continues to grow. Therefore, in 2 to 3 election cycles, with that growth, the reelection rate will continue to drop from 75% to, or, near 50% with the anti-incumbent grassroots movement.

Logically, however, don't have to wait for the reelection rate to drop to 50% to see dramatic improvements in how our federal politicians represent the people's and nation's needs. The simple evidence of reelection rates dropping precipitously will convert ever larger numbers of those politicians to putting the people and nation's interests at the top of their priority list, and knock the wealthy special interest donors and lobbyists down several notches on their priority list. That will produce better governance from Congress, since better governance will win back anti-incumbent voters.

Better governance for the people and nation will be their ticket to improving their reelection odds, in place of big oil, big banks, big pharmaceuticals, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and debt and deficit wealthy donor interests like the contractors attached to the Pentagon and military industrial complex as well as the
profiteers attached to the Medicare/Medicaid programs. All these interests who now control our representative's actions in Congress will lose their influence as the anti-incumbent voters increase the percentage of incumbents who fail to get reelected.

In short, VOID-ing incumbents is how the voters regain control of their politicians and our national agenda.

By David R. Remer
Published: July 26, 2010 11:32 AM
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