Ricardo Salinas Pliego Quotes
The red and the blue. There are only two political parties in America. No other country has such a situation…. It’s an anomaly in the world. So is having elections on a Tuesday; nobody shows up.
Owner of one of the only 2 Mexican Television Networks. There js no other industrial democracy that has a two party system; the others have 3 or more parties. Other democracies have their election day scheduled for a non-work day—usually a weekend. A number of states of the U. S. also allow voting on weekends and on multiple days. The individual states have the right (within limits) to set the time and rules of elections. Those states where conservatives have control tend to restrict voting as narrowly as they can, as their supporters tend to be more affluent and have jobs where they can vote on a Tuesday without economic penalty or family dislocation. Where liberals control, they tend to take steps to make voting very easy, especially of the poor and working class, as they have more supports in these groups.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego, President and CEO of Grupo Salinas, Interview, PBS The Charlie Rose Show, October 31, 2013
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This seeming abnormality was the result of most of the House of Representatives Congressional Districts being heavily weighted to one party or the other, some the result of demographics and most the result of intentional gerrymandering by the politicians in the State Legislatures. The Republicans at that time were much better at this than the Democrats and very few of the districts were competitive between the parties. Many Democratic urban districts had small democratic areas of the suburbs added to them giving them a larger majority than they needed to win while taking them out of the suburban districts making them easier to win for the Republicans. The original Constitutional concept that the House represented the people proportionately was then undermined as the Republicans could easily win the vast majority of the congressional seats and at the some tome garner millions of votes less nationally than the Democrats,
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Ricardo Benjamín Salinas Pliego is a Mexican billionaire businessman, founder and chairman of Grupo Salinas, a group of companies with interests in telecommunications, media, financial services, and retail stores.
