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FREEP THIS POLL:Do you believe the Green Party will ever be a viable third party?
Ithaca Times ^
Posted on 06/07/2002 5:56:51 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
This Week’s Question: Do you believe the Green Party will ever be a viable third party? Yes or No?
TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: freeppoll; greenparty
Click on Source to vote. Poll is in lower left corner.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
um, would a yes or a no be a freep?
To: glock rocks
Would it matter?
To: anniegetyourgun
LOL!
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I voted yes. The green party needs to become strong enough to take about half of the dem's votes away.
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posted on
06/07/2002 6:06:41 AM PDT
by
Brett66
To: Behind Liberal Lines
WE'VE GOT TO VOTE YES FOR THIS POLL!!!!!!Any SANE human being KNOWS they're not a real party (Kind of like the Libertarians) but we need to keep them around so they can keep rattling the cages of the DemocRATs!!!
To: Behind Liberal Lines
We're sure pulling for them in Minnesota.....they could peel off 5% of Wellstone's vote and lock a Senate seat for Norm Coleman.
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posted on
06/07/2002 6:21:06 AM PDT
by
Reo
To: Brett66
You have a point... as lame as it is.
I would rather see a black party with the greens and lesbians in ka-hoots.
I would donate $10,000 to this party. Bush wins in 2004!
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posted on
06/07/2002 6:26:22 AM PDT
by
johnny7
To: Behind Liberal Lines
The answer is yes depending on what you mean by viable. If they will ever get elected to national office - I doubt it. If you mean that they are strong enough to influence national policy - you bet they're viable. Most of the violations of our property rights by the so called "environmental protection" agency have been driven by the enviroNazis in the green party. They don't have to be elected to office to achieve their goals.
To: glock rocks
I say vote "no" because (a) it makes the Greens nervous and (b) it makes the Dems complacent.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
As the Democrats and Republicans continue their movement towards one party I would have to answer "yes" to the question.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
The Socialist Party was never really viable, but yet both the Democrats and the Republican parties have raced to become the biggest socialist party. So in that sense, it doesn't really matter.
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posted on
06/07/2002 7:13:49 AM PDT
by
jlogajan
To: Behind Liberal Lines
ITHACA TIMES - READER POLL
This Week’s Question: Do you believe the Green Party will ever be a viable third party?
Yes 18.89%
No 81.11%
Freeped it! So far, so good.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Let's hope they become viable enough to syphon off lots of RATvotes.
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posted on
06/07/2002 10:16:24 AM PDT
by
RWCon
To: Behind Liberal Lines; anniegetyourgun; glock rocks
It makes sense for us to support 3rd parties on the Dems left. Vote yes on the poll.
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posted on
06/07/2002 12:13:59 PM PDT
by
weikel
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Yes. Nothing like a good spoiler to syphon off the lefty votes.
To: weikel
As noted above, I think, given the unique politics of ithaca, "the city of evil," a "no" will do more to energize the greens and de-energise the dems
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