Look no further than the sharp decline on sort of the mission. It was this year, there are 38. 00 such measures slated across the country, around half the level in the last president ial election when you saw about 32 or 72. So today my friends, lets dive into and examine some of the vital issues of our time that us voters finally got to weigh in on. As we start watching the hawks on a city street. You want to see this joyce graves see this least systemic deception is so which brings us all right, welcome one and all to watching the heart and im of these Ballot Initiatives when they come up every, every Election Year because those are the, those of the initiatives the people in various states across the country really get to exercise democracy on and say, we love this side b. Or we reject this idea and you can only hold the people of the state accountable for the, for the rejection or the whim of the idea. Rather than a politician or a Lobbyist Group or whatever. Absolutely, i think th
Greetings and sell you take shims. Here in the united states, the air is thick and my friends. It is thick with them to suppression. As we wait for the final counts to come in and we finally get a new president crowned. But while that American Idol section of the us version of democracy is yet to be concluded, that wasnt the only big decision made by us citizens on tuesday night that will affect the future of lives across this great country. Some 32 states, as well as the district of columbia, am puerto rico, had 124. 00 Ballot Initiatives spread out amongst them this year. According to the folks at the National Conference of state legislatures these ballot. 5 initiatives that initiatives included california as that involves oberon, lips, multimillion dollar fight to keep their drivers labeled as independent contractors rather than employees. Because you know, hey, i mean, who wants to provide benefits and protections to thousands upon thousands of drivers when youve got Company Shareh
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Peculiar way we count the two nonconsecutive administrations of Grover Cleveland in the 19th century. All 44 of those president s have been males. All but two of them have been white protestant males. , of the 44, have been elected to second terms, which is a room entry indicator of the character of our political system and its volatility. Scarcely more than one third of our chief executives beginning in the 18th century have been elected to a second term for one reason or another. Eight have died in office. Four have been assassination. Five have been elected without popular majorities. Three have been impeached and two of those in the lifetime of many people here today. Of all of those numbers, the one i want to of the size most, is the number one. By that, i mean the president is electedne of the 536 officials in washington, d. C. Strictly speaking, it is 537, and theers of congress, president and Vice President im treating as a single click on entity. So the president is one of 536
Of the character of our political system and its volatility. Scarcely more than one third of our chief executives, beginning in the 18th century, have been elected to a second term for one reason or another. Eight have died in office. Four have been assassination. Five have been elected without popular majorities. Three have been impeached, two of those in the lifetime of many people with us here today. Of all of those numbers, the one i want to of the size most, is the number one. By that i mean that the president is simply one of the 536 elected officials in washington, d. C. Strictly speaking, it is 537, 535 members of congress, and the im treating the president and Vice President for this purpose as a single entity. So the president is one of 536 elected officials. When i reflect on that asymmetry between the one president and 536 other federal elected officials, im reminded of a quip by the journalist theodore white, who wrote several books on president ial elections beginning in