.... am getting sick of haveing two choices for the person who runs this entire country. i have historically voted for third parties so that perhaps some day we WILL have more than two lousy choices. Seeing how i live in NY i will probably again be voting for a third party. last time i checked, one reason the US was so great was choice.
I totally agree that two options are not enough. Furthermore, why, when several of the "third party options" are on the ballots in all 50 states, or at least enough to theoretically carry the election (for example, if everyone decides to vote Libertarian in November then we'll be calling a guy named Badnarik the President), why are they not allowed to be in the "official" presidential debates? When Ross Perot got into the debates in 1992 he succeeded in getting the other two parties to focus on trade issues
Furthermore, why, when several of the "third party options" are on the ballots in all 50 states... why are they not allowed to be in the "official" presidential debates?
Just FYI, the first Presidential debate occurred this past weekend, between the Green Party candidate David Cobb [votecobb.org] and the Libertarians' Michael Badnarik [badnarik.org]. C-Span covered it -- there's still an audio/video link from their homepage [c-span.org].
Not that the current duopoly will ever allow a third-party player in the debates again. But they're very handy on the local level. A friend of mine, Gary Page [garyrpage.com], ran as a Green against a shoe-in Republican, a placeholder Democrat, and a lost-in-the-clouds Libertarian. A local group (Realtors, I think) held a debate with all four. Though the Republican won, Gary's performance was so strong that the Democrats recruited him to run for Congress on their behalf this year.
Keep an eye on the grass roots... they're coming up Green.
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Just FYI, the first Presidential debate occurred this past weekend, between the Green Party candidate David Cobb [votecobb.org] and the Libertarians' Michael Badnarik [badnarik.org]. C-Span covered it -- there's still an audio/video link from their homepage [c-span.org].
Not that the current duopoly will ever allow a third-party player in the debates again. But they're very handy on the local level. A friend of mine, Gary Page [garyrpage.com], ran as a Green against a shoe-in Republican, a placeholder Democrat, and a lost-in-the-clouds Libertarian. A local group (Realtors, I think) held a debate with all four. Though the Republican won, Gary's performance was so strong that the Democrats recruited him to run for Congress on their behalf this year.
Keep an eye on the grass roots... they're coming up Green.