The USA has constitutionally mandated national elections for president every four years; senators have six year terms, congressional representatives get two years. Presidents have a lifetime two term limit.
But at the risk of getting totally dark (but not, by any means, totally unrealistic), one of my greatest fears is that the war on Iraq will drag on through next year (and/or spill into a war on Iran, Syria, Korea, whatever), and that inevitably there will be Al-Qaeda reprisals on the scale of 9/11, or even worse. If this happens before our next presidential election in November 2004, I can very easily imagine Our Glorious Leader addressing the nation thus: "My fellow Americans, because of the recent major attacks on our country and the ongoing conflicts in (fill in the blanks), I am declaring a state of national emergency and martial law. This is no time to change horses in mid-stream, and therefore we must postpone our national elections until such time when some measure of stability is achieved." Preposterous? Happens in other countries, it can happen here. Who's gonna stop him? The Supreme Court? -Fred In a message dated 3/25/2003 10:25:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > --- theodore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's > hope for a regime change in Washington on > > November 4th 2004. > > Do American elections happen every four years like > clockwork and always at the same time of year? Here in > Canada, a gov't can have up to five years in power and > elections are called at the whim of the current gov't > (usually when they feel their popularity is high > enough so they can win another one). Most don't call > one before three years, becuase it tends to piss off > the taxpayers, and few wait until the last minute > unless they're pretty sure they're going to lose > anyway and just want to hang on as long as they can. > > > > ===== > Catherine > Toronto > > ____________________________________________________________ > __________ > Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
