Comments on: What about third parties? http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/08/15/what-about-third-parties/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:44:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: langa http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/08/15/what-about-third-parties/#comment-787209 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:27:35 +0000 http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/08/15/what-about-third-parties/#comment-787209 I didn't read the rest of the article, but it seems like more sour grapes from a disgruntled Democrat still bitter about losing 8 years ago. It would be laughable if it weren't so annoying. I didn’t read the rest of the article, but it seems like more sour grapes from a disgruntled Democrat still bitter about losing 8 years ago. It would be laughable if it weren’t so annoying.

]]> by: MPM http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/08/15/what-about-third-parties/#comment-786139 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:10:43 +0000 http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/08/15/what-about-third-parties/#comment-786139 "simply don’t want to decide between two major parties with significant differences." Let's say you're in some sinister South American torture chamber. If you had the choice of getting raped, the choice of getting murdered, and the choice of trying to escape with a 10% chance of success, freedom, and not being harmed, wouldn't it be wise to throw your chances behind the last choice, or would you rather chose to be raped as the lesser of two evils? “simply don’t want to decide between two major parties with significant differences.”

Let’s say you’re in some sinister South American torture chamber. If you had the choice of getting raped, the choice of getting murdered, and the choice of trying to escape with a 10% chance of success, freedom, and not being harmed, wouldn’t it be wise to throw your chances behind the last choice, or would you rather chose to be raped as the lesser of two evils?

]]> by: Ferenc http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/08/15/what-about-third-parties/#comment-784498 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:45:12 +0000 http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/08/15/what-about-third-parties/#comment-784498 Just a reminder. Vote Constitution and Libertarian party members in to the congress and senate. God Bless Just a reminder. Vote Constitution and Libertarian party members in to the congress and senate.

God Bless

]]> by: steve conn http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/08/15/what-about-third-parties/#comment-780591 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:57:27 +0000 http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/08/15/what-about-third-parties/#comment-780591 And if the Mayor of Miami hadn't fled to Spain during the 2000 election, and if Gore had mentioned Global Warming or pushed for protection of the Everglades against expansion of the Miami airport as Nader did and if the Dems had demanded a statewide recount and if Clinton hadn't fooled around in the oval office, and if the ballots had been readable for older people or punchable, and if Carville and his gang hadn't spent years blaming Nader for their own incompetence and spent more time figuring out how to defeat Bush in 2004 than driving Progressive issues off the ballot and so on and so on and so on. Lies about Ralph Nader don't win elections. They lose elections for corporate Democrats. But maybe they don't care so long as they get paid. And if the Mayor of Miami hadn’t fled to Spain during the 2000 election, and if Gore had mentioned Global Warming or pushed for protection of the Everglades against expansion of the Miami airport as Nader did and if the Dems had demanded a statewide recount and if Clinton hadn’t fooled around in the oval office, and if the ballots had been readable for older people or punchable, and if Carville and his gang hadn’t spent years blaming Nader for their own incompetence and spent more time figuring out how to defeat Bush in 2004 than driving Progressive issues off the ballot and so on and so on and so on. Lies about Ralph Nader don’t win elections. They lose elections for
corporate Democrats. But maybe they don’t care so long as they get paid.

]]> by: redfish http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/08/15/what-about-third-parties/#comment-780334 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:48:00 +0000 http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/08/15/what-about-third-parties/#comment-780334 Speaking of the subject, Gallup is trying to discredit third party candidates with , what even they admit, is a very bogus polling method. Support for Third-Party Candidates Appears Limited Thus Far Just 2% say they will vote for a third-party candidate this fall The question, part of an Aug. 7-10 Gallup Poll, allowed respondents to name any candidate or political party, without prompting of specific names from Gallup interviewers. This is a different approach than Gallup takes in its Daily tracking polling and USA Today/Gallup polls, in which voters are asked whether they would vote for Barack Obama or John McCain for president if the election were held today. With the unaided question used in the new poll, 83% of registered voters named either Obama (45%) or McCain (38%) as their preferred candidate. That leaves only about 2% who say they plan to vote for a third-party candidate in November -- not much different from the 1% in Gallup Poll Daily tracking who typically volunteer that they will vote for someone other than Obama or McCain. http://www.gallup.com/poll/109435/Support-ThirdParty-Candidates-Appears-Limited-Thus-Far.aspx I wouldn't worry about a hack like Davidow who really doesnt know what she's talking about Speaking of the subject, Gallup is trying to discredit third party candidates with , what even they admit, is a very bogus polling method.

Support for Third-Party Candidates Appears Limited Thus Far
Just 2% say they will vote for a third-party candidate this fall

The question, part of an Aug. 7-10 Gallup Poll, allowed respondents to name any candidate or political party, without prompting of specific names from Gallup interviewers. This is a different approach than Gallup takes in its Daily tracking polling and USA Today/Gallup polls, in which voters are asked whether they would vote for Barack Obama or John McCain for president if the election were held today.

With the unaided question used in the new poll, 83% of registered voters named either Obama (45%) or McCain (38%) as their preferred candidate.
That leaves only about 2% who say they plan to vote for a third-party candidate in November—not much different from the 1% in Gallup Poll Daily tracking who typically volunteer that they will vote for someone other than Obama or McCain.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/109435/Support-ThirdParty-Candidates-Appears-Limited-Thus-Far.aspx

I wouldn’t worry about a hack like Davidow who really doesnt know what she’s talking about

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