Perhaps this election wasn't so much about choosing conservative vs.
liberal candidates, as it was about having choices, period. Ballot referendums have been shown to draw voters to the polls even when they are lackluster about voting for candidates. With more participation, comes, usually, more progressive voters. This election may contain hopeful lessons after all.
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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.
His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
http://www.americaisnotbroke.net/
Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of (more...)