Talk:1974 United States elections

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"On 1974-11-05, the United States held its general elections" is nonsense. This is not true. The United States has never held any elections. All elections within the united States are held by the States, the Cities, the Towns, the Counties, or other geographically apportioned areas. So this has no context either.

True, the United States doesn't hold elections, but general elections are held by all states on a common date in the fall. In common nomenclature, these would be U.S. elections. This was a year where all House seats and 1/3 of Senate seats were up for election. The article usefully provides internal links. The context is clear, even if it's currently a glorified disambiguation for the House and Senate election articles. Accordingly, it fails A3 because it is either classed as a disambiguation page or contains content above and beyond just external links. —C.Fred (talk) 16:04, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This can be thought of as a stub, if you like, which needs expansion because 1974 was a huge Democratic landslide at every level. Every election day that involves more than one state (including the odd-year ones involving New York City, New Jersey and Virginia this year, and Louisiana, Mississippi and Kentucky two years ago) is examined as a whole for what it says and what it implies for Congressional and Presidential politics. And there's a constant debate about whether the most important factors were local ones or national ones. European Assembly elections are not held by the European Union but by individual member states' election authorities. Even though they usually reflect local politics far more than popular attitudes towards Europe, it's still worth having an article about European elections, 2004. —— Shakescene (talk) 21:59, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

- This article does not say, "The United States government" or "The United States federal government" held its elections. It just says the United States held its elections.—Markles 23:40, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]