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Obama Team Believes 3rd Party Candidates Can Help In Battle Ground States
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/07/31/obama-team-believes-3rd-party-candidates-can-help-them-win ^ | 9/6/2012 | WASHINGTON (AP)

Posted on 08/06/2012 6:50:01 AM PDT by longtermmemmory

Edited on 08/06/2012 7:42:35 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

President Barack Obama’s re-election effort is paying close attention to two candidates mounting third-party campaigns for the presidency, believing they could draw votes from Republican rival Mitt Romney and help Obama win a few tightly contested states.

One candidate is Virgil Goode, a former conservative Virginia congressman who is running as a member of the Constitution Party....."


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; bho2012; dncstrategy; elections; goode; goode2012; johnson; nobama2012; obama; romney; thirdparty
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To: longtermmemmory
"Given the number of trolls, constant danger of trolls, and group like media matters admitting to trolling it seems logical to post as a warning."

They're just Freetards. Not smart enough to troll...

41 posted on 08/06/2012 8:22:50 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (=)
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To: EternalVigilance
"Even the Romney campaign admits that folks can't stand Romney"

Is this your new reductio ad absurdum take on it? It's still a non-Presidential non sequitur.

You know, I've figured out why you don't peel yourself off your computer chair and actually work to get yourself on a state ballot -- you would be taking away votes from Goode, not Mittens...lol

42 posted on 08/06/2012 8:30:30 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (=)
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To: longtermmemmory

Based on what I’ve been seeing, Obama is right. Little mini Perots will do their best to reelect him. But they have their right to run for president, for whatever reasons they claim they are running for, no matter how futile and counter productive that might be. They are free, and soon we can all say, “So were we.”


43 posted on 08/06/2012 8:30:30 AM PDT by pallis
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To: Gay State Conservative
And don't forget to stock up on that disaster food

If you are just starting to stock up on ammo and food, you are WAY too late. The GOP-E has tried to destroy the conservative movement for over 20 years.

/johnny

44 posted on 08/06/2012 8:31:43 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: StAnDeliver

This is why this is a fair warning.

We should be focused on purging the Romeny camp of RINO staffers, career staff leftists, closetted homo-activists, and other desk jockeys.

A third party useful idiot is a way to drain talent from the cause.


45 posted on 08/06/2012 8:33:11 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Gay State Conservative

And i wouldn’t be doing the same if Romney is elected?

“If we can’t.’t stand for something, we’ll fall for anything” isn’t that the saying?

I just can’t do it anymore, vote for the “preceved “ lesser of two evils.


46 posted on 08/06/2012 8:35:29 AM PDT by CapnJack
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To: pallis

Is it a valid run when the candidate like goode or Johnson is being funded by the DNC directly or through surrogates? There is a point were it is no longer freedom but outright manipulation and elimination of freedom.


47 posted on 08/06/2012 8:35:29 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: JRandomFreeper
The GOP would have fewer problems with 3rd party candidates if they would just run a conservative.

You're a troublemaker! You're one of those damned Republicans who keep insisting that the GOP candidate pander to you! You, you, you ..... panderfiend!

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48 posted on 08/06/2012 8:36:14 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: longtermmemmory
Got any proof that the DNC is funding Goode? Directly or through surrogates?

/johnny

49 posted on 08/06/2012 8:39:36 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: lentulusgracchus
Yeah.. I'm a pain in the ass that way. I won't vote for any R that comes along. They have to be pro-life, pro-gun, small-government conservatives.

/johnny

50 posted on 08/06/2012 8:41:13 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: longtermmemmory
We should be focused on purging the Romeny camp of RINO staffers, career staff leftists, closetted homo-activists, and other desk jockeys.

Good luck with that! The consensus in that wing of the party has been for "Me Too" socialism since about 1938 (traumatized by FDR -- Stockholm Syndrome, I guess).

As for closet cases, Romney made a big gay appointment not two months ago to his campaign staff. Romney loves gay guys in government, half his political identity is tied up in being "welcoming" to big-rich homosexuals who can drop bags and bags of campaign swag on his desk.

One reason the RNC keeps a calendar is so they can keep track of all the luncheon and dinner events they have planned with the Loggies and GOProud. Even Ann Coulter joined GOProud -- straight guys wouldn't date her if she wasn't cool. </snark>

51 posted on 08/06/2012 8:44:56 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: longtermmemmory

If the republicans could actually put a candidate up that had ANY credibility, then this would not be an issue. With the exception of Reagan, I have had to hold my nose to go vote. Really tired of it. We need to stop letting the “idiots” chose our candidate and force feeding them to us.


52 posted on 08/06/2012 8:55:55 AM PDT by vet7279
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To: Notary Sojac

Please don’t put words in my mouth.

I never said everyone who does this or that is a troll.

I never called any specific poster a troll.

All I said is that there ARE trolls.


53 posted on 08/06/2012 9:25:36 AM PDT by samtheman (Obama. Mugabe. Chavez. (Obamugavez))
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To: vet7279

constitution party candidates and votes

1992 – Howard Phillips and Albion Knight – 43,369 votes.
1996 – Howard Phillips and Herb Titus – 184,820 votes
2000 – Howard Phillips and Curtis Frazier – 98,022 votes
2004 – Michael Peroutka and Chuck Baldwin – 143,630 votes
2008 – Chuck Baldwin and Darrell Castle – 199,750 votes
2012 – Virgil Goode and Jim Clymer

this does not even keep up with population growth as a per captita. In contrast to the MILLIONS of votes cast these third party nobodies do not even qualify to be a though on the radar let alone a blip.

I believe Badnarik of the libertarian party was mention here on FR in 2004 as recieving money from democrats to run ads in battleground markets to dilute Republican votes.


54 posted on 08/06/2012 9:41:54 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Notary Sojac
Way to win supporters to your cause !!

I know, right?


55 posted on 08/06/2012 9:57:53 AM PDT by rdb3 (We need Ward Cleaver for President. We already have Eddie Haskell. (ATB))
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To: samtheman
Please don’t put words in my mouth.

Fair enough. Sorry if I was misread.

All I said is that there ARE trolls.

My impression is that the ratio of Freepers with honest differences of opinion to trolls is about 9,999 to one. Your mileage may vary.

56 posted on 08/06/2012 10:14:33 AM PDT by Notary Sojac (Ut veniant omnes)
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To: Notary Sojac

Most freepers don’t post, they lurk.

It only takes a few trolls (especially if they are well-disguised) to do a lot of damage.

Let me ask you this: if there is even ONE poster in FR who is actively working to re-elect Barack Obama under the guise of “conservativism”, and that poster is very active and even somewhat persuasive (Romney is the same as Obama, yadda, yadda, yadda)... would that poster make you nervous?


57 posted on 08/06/2012 10:19:45 AM PDT by samtheman (Obama. Mugabe. Chavez. (Obamugavez))
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To: samtheman
Mr.RomneyCARE should put fear in you.

He created DEATH PANELS. What will he do next?

Mr. Romney "Disses" Amateur Radio In Televised Town Meeting

Gov. Sarah Palin, Governor of the state of Alaska, proclaimed the week of July 28 through August 3, 2008 as: Amateur Radio Week

58 posted on 08/06/2012 11:15:12 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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To: samtheman
if there is even ONE poster ... would that poster make you nervous?

No. For two reasons.

First, I don't think that person would have the ability to do any significant damage. FR is not nearly as big or as influential as it used to be, and I haven't seen members on either side of the Romney divide whose minds have been changed by this circular firing squad.

Second, having one anti-Romney poster turn out to be a troll would be like having one Tea Party activist turn out to be a racist. Of course, it's possible, but it is not an excuse for a generalized attack.

59 posted on 08/06/2012 11:17:45 AM PDT by Notary Sojac (Ut veniant omnes)
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To: Diogenesis
Mr. Romney "Disses" Amateur Radio

What a friggin idiot. Amateur Radio operators have been invaluable during natural disasters.

/johnny

60 posted on 08/06/2012 12:30:04 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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