third parties

Which could throw a monkey wrench into the Democrats plan to nominate a hard line liberal. I don't know why they say "Few" when they mean "No." It's true that a few independent candidates have gotten a significant amount of votes, but none of them have actually been successful in the sense...

What would our basic positions be? What would we negotiate? To seed discussion... Abortion. I can see the perspective of people who think that abortion is murder. I don't agree, but I get where they're coming from. So... If they want to place limits on abortion... then they have to let gay...

It strikes me that Hilary and Donald are both equally terrible candidates. What other options are open to American voters ?

Yeah, I know, kind of a silly question. But still, what if? My guess is he and Weld would immediately rejoin the Republican Party and govern accordingly.

I am going to try working through the Green Party convention materials, and the first thing that catches full information voters' minds is the Julian Assange speech. A couple of points: the Green Party introduced him as a hero, for the obvious reason of publishing truthful information from our...

I found out about this movement a few months ago. California National Party is trying to become a qualified political party in California. At least they seem more peaceful than the Texas independence movement.

Now John McAfee wants to run and apparently has created the "Cyber Party". He's obviously a nutcase and a scoundrel, but he looks way better than Trump and has a comparable ego, so why not? RT interviewed him and apparently adopted his video material 1:1, unaware of that he has nothing to do...

According to Wikipedia, this has been tried twice before: once by Ralph Nader in 2000 and once by Gary Johnson in 2012. This is the first time a suit has been pursued on constitutional grounds, however. Green Jill Stein Is Fighting for Open Debates and Real Democracy

This is a pretty interesting site, it has an extensive questionare to hone down what Americans think are the important issues and who might be the right people for the job. It has nothing to do with Repubs or Dems and their goal is to have a candidate on the ballot in all 50 states. They have...

Heard some talk on the radio about the possibility. Let's be real, he's not going to win GOP nomination. So, do you think he should run as an independent? Do you think he could have the Nader effect? I'm not enamored with Ron Paul or anything, but I do think it would be interesting to have...

While researching third party vote totals for the 2008 election I came across America's oldest third party - The Prohibitionists. They received 648 votes in 2008. The 2012 platform will be written soon, but the 2008 platform is still online...

Are there right-wing activist groups in other developed countries that closely resemble the American Tea Party both in terms of anger, as well as advocating limited government/low taxes, preventing government-subsidized universal health care, and well as having leaders like Sarah Palin and Glenn...

He appeared yesterday after the elections and was berated for making a very bad negative remark in reference to Obama's past history in relation to big corporations and what might be expected based on that record. He also spent most of his time complaining about how he lacked the money to...

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/specials/election_night_2008/election_map_premium/index.html?SITE=CSPANELN&SECTION=POLITICS Too bad Shanek isn't here anymore. He could tell us how the Libertarian Party is growing and winning all sorts of elections across the country. It was always good for...

what would have happened if Ron Paul had run as an Independant? I think he could have galvanized a sizeable portion of the youth/independant/isolationist/nationalist vote. he could have picked up 20% or more of the popular vote. i know all of his supporters are very very very disapointed he...

Be advised that if you haven't read the whole platform of a party on their website (not to mention outside objective criticism of them) then you might be assuming they're less insane than they are.

I remember hearing rumors that Bloomberg and Hagel might run on a centrist ticket, but when Hagel said no the rumors died down. Next Ross Perot or media sensation? What's Bloomberg's angle here?

Interesting site. The idea is that a "safe state" Kerry supporter gets paired with a swing state "third party" sympathizer. The Kerry supporter then votes third-party while the third-party sympathizer votes Kerry. The idea is to get Kerry elected and, in return, third parties get more votes...

Yes, the great state of North Carolina, the state which flat out ignored Constitutionally valid votes for Ralph Nader in 2000, drew "safe" districts which, had it not been for the Libertarian Party, would have resulted in half of the General Assembly seats being uncontested, and has the third...