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	<title>Comments on: Lining Up on Nonpartisan Elections</title>
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		<title>By: Jamal Aurges</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jamal Aurges</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wanted to let everyone know if you want to fish on Key West&#039;s #1 charterboat call Capt. Allen King.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wanted to let everyone know if you want to fish on Key West&#8217;s #1 charterboat call Capt. Allen King.</p>
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		<title>By: Brigitt Williams</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brigitt Williams</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 06:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The argument goes that will Obama wants to get in touch with a demographic that wouldn’t readily vote in midterm elections except if the candidates performed screeching, off-key tops of Whitney Houston tracks. Wasn’t it just the other day that the media had been slamming Obama for “demeaning” the office of the President of the usa by appearing on the particular Daily Show? I can’t wait to hear what the pearl-clutchers inside the media have to say concerning this latest GOTV effort because of the President.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The argument goes that will Obama wants to get in touch with a demographic that wouldn’t readily vote in midterm elections except if the candidates performed screeching, off-key tops of Whitney Houston tracks. Wasn’t it just the other day that the media had been slamming Obama for “demeaning” the office of the President of the usa by appearing on the particular Daily Show? I can’t wait to hear what the pearl-clutchers inside the media have to say concerning this latest GOTV effort because of the President.</p>
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		<title>By: Larry Littlefield</title>
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		<dc:creator>Larry Littlefield</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Among its 50 recommendations, Citizens Union called for instituting nonpartisan elections, term limits.&quot;

Better late than never.  As I wrote the last time this came up, the way to solve the &quot;party labels as information&quot; problem is to allow candidates to keep their party labels in the general election.

In one party districts where just about everyone votes Democratic, that would mean a Democrat challenger against a Democrat incumbent on Election Day when everyone shows up.  Which is exactly what those who control the incumbents are worried about.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Among its 50 recommendations, Citizens Union called for instituting nonpartisan elections, term limits.&#8221;</p>
<p>Better late than never.  As I wrote the last time this came up, the way to solve the &#8220;party labels as information&#8221; problem is to allow candidates to keep their party labels in the general election.</p>
<p>In one party districts where just about everyone votes Democratic, that would mean a Democrat challenger against a Democrat incumbent on Election Day when everyone shows up.  Which is exactly what those who control the incumbents are worried about.</p>
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