Are all 435 members of the House of Representatives up for re-election in 2010?
I received a message about the entire House of Representatives being up for election in 2010. My memory may be faulty but I don’t remember that ever happening. I mean, if this were so, wouldn’t it be in the news?
I received an email this morning with what I believe to be an untrue statement – “In November of 2010 the entire House of Representatives will stand for re-election; all 435 of them.” Is this true? I don’t recall a time where the entire House of Representatives has been up for re-election.
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I will admit that when I first saw the claim in this Snopes column yesterday (yes, I check Snopes semi-regularly) I had a moment of “What are the odds of that?” before I remembered that Representatives only serve a two year term.
Actually, it’s true though I don’t remember the exact circumstances the last time year 2010 rolled around. Perhaps it was only half that number. It was during the previous Mayan calendar long count. My memory seems to diminish each time ressurection rolls around.
I think the election of all 435 representatives in 2008 was the first time as well. Also the years 2006, 2004, …
While teaching, I’ve said things to the effect that “if we don’t like like our leaders, we can vote them out,” and had responses to the effect that “they only come up for re-election like, once every ten years or something.”
On another occasion, when I mentioned that something was not the President’s responsibility, but congress’s, she asked “Who elects them?”
On a couple of other occasions, students were under the impression that Presidents can “order” state governments to do things, like a CEO ordering a middle manager.
With the end of the world coming with the end of the Mayan calendar in 2012, I assumed that would coincide with a full reelection of the House of Representatives. Now people are saying a full reelection is happening in 2010? This can only mean one thing: our attempts to align our timescale with that of the Mayans is off by two years and thus their grim premonitions will come to pass…next year.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: democracy simply doesn’t work. [Okay, in reality, I can understand being confused about this for a minute or two if you haven’t thought about it recently, but if they’re getting enough questions about this that they feel it merits an entry, that’s not so good.]
That’s because y’all haven’t tried letting me be supreme dictator and just doing what I tell you to do. I’m dead serious: if it wasn’t for all y’all recalcitrant motherfuckers, we’d have a damn fine world. Do what I tell you to, and I’d end war, crime, and drug addiction, and go a long way toward eliminating hunger and poverty.
The best form of government is right here, and it’s a shitload better than democracy. Y’all just need to give it a chance.
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On a couple of other occasions, students were under the impression that Presidents can “order” state governments to do things, like a CEO ordering a middle manager.
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“Vimes had once discussed the Ephebian idea of ‘democracy’ with Carrot, and had been rather interested in the idea that everyone had a vote until he found out that while he, Vimes, would have a vote, there was no way in the rules that anyone could prevent Nobby Nobbs from having one as well. Vimes could see the flaw there straight away. *.”
: to people who aren’t Pratchett fans : an abysmally stupid and dishonest character.
While there is much truth to what you say, their ideas were more along the lines of “The federal government is above the states, so Obama is Schwarzenegger’s boss and can give him orders of any kind at any time.”
