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Third parties a dud in 2012
The Examiner ^ | July 6, 2012 | Michael McGuire

Posted on 07/06/2012 6:08:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Voter dissatisfaction or not, there is very little support this year for third party presidential candidates.

In a Gallup Poll released Friday that includes three minor-party candidates, Barack Obama received 47 percent support, Mitt Romney 40, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson 3, Green candidate Jill Stein 1 and Constitution Party candidate Virgil Goode less than 1.

Two percent of voters said they favor U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), 1 percent mentioned someone else, 2 percent had no opinion and 5 percent said they will not vote.

Voter dissatisfaction or not, there is very little support this year for third party presidential candidates.

In a Gallup Poll released Friday that includes three minor-party candidates, Barack Obama received 47 percent support, Mitt Romney 40, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson 3, Green candidate Jill Stein 1 and Constitution Party candidate Virgil Goode less than 1.

Two percent of voters said they favor U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), 1 percent mentioned someone else, 2 percent had no opinion and 5 percent said they will not vote.

If that is bad news for minor-party candidates, it will get worse for them as the campaign continues, if historical trends continue...

(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties; Polls; State and Local
KEYWORDS: obama; polls; romney; ronpaul; thirdparties; thirdparty
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1 posted on 07/06/2012 6:08:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Third parties are more likely to be successful in times of prosperity and small differences between the major parties. This year, voters realize they would be throwing their vote away in probably the most important election ever if they did not vote for either Obama or Romney.


2 posted on 07/06/2012 6:13:11 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Anyone who votes for a 3rd party candidate, even a true libertarian that I would appreciate, is voting for Obama. If he or she is voting for a 3rd Party candidate, he or she should put an Obama sign on his or her front lawn and an Obama bumper sticker on his or her car.


3 posted on 07/06/2012 6:13:41 PM PDT by stevem
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t expect a third party vote to be successful. That said, there is no way I’ll be voting for either of the two major candidates. Anybody but FDR.


4 posted on 07/06/2012 6:18:24 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We are in dire need of a socialist POTUS anyway.


5 posted on 07/06/2012 6:24:00 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If a third-party wants success in America with its single-member district system they have to work within the two large major parties.

The 15% of the population who adhere to extreme leftwing ideologies took over the Democrat party in the last 20 years.

The ideologically free GOP-e has taken over the Presidential selection inside the Republican party,but it is definitely a minority party operation. Else, they'd been able to STOP Southern Democrats moving en masse to the Republican standard, or the infiltration of active, practicing, church attending Catholics also moving into the Republican party. Fur Shur the GOP-e has not had much luck stifling the TEAParty although they try.

The GOP-e seems to not have a sense of self-identity although the rest of us do know who they are ~ call it "E-dar".

Their track record regarding selections of candidates to run for President is ABOMINABLE!

6 posted on 07/06/2012 6:28:28 PM PDT by muawiyah
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Let’s be adults here: There are only two individuals who might be sworn in as president next January. Which one do you prefer?


7 posted on 07/06/2012 6:37:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (In honor of my late father, GunnerySgt/Commo Chief, USMC 1943-65)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; BlackElk; Diogenesis

Unless Slick Willard, the Socialist abomination and pathological liar, is dumped as the GOP nominee, I will unapologetically cast a vote for Congressman Virgil Goode. Don’t like it ? Tough.


8 posted on 07/06/2012 6:38:57 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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How could I “not like it” fieldmarshaldj? I wore the uniform so that you can vote for whomever you choose.


9 posted on 07/06/2012 7:02:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (In honor of my late father, GunnerySgt/Commo Chief, USMC 1943-65)
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>> There are only two individuals who might be sworn in as president next January. Which one do you prefer?

To paraphrase a South Park episode, I guess I’ll pick the Douchebag over the Sh!t Sandwich.

“Anybody But Sandwich”, that’s my motto.

Although lately the Douchebag hasn’t had a lot of punch... the Sandwich may pull ahead in spite of being full of ... well, you know.


10 posted on 07/06/2012 7:05:45 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: muawiyah

>> The ideologically free GOP-e

They’re not free of ideology. They unwaveringly embrace the “you need to elect us because we need to be elected to run things” ideology.


11 posted on 07/06/2012 7:09:29 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thank you, but that wasn’t specifically directed at you. I’m getting sick of the Willardbots around here shamefully attacking others because they refuse to cast a vote for a man who has spent his entire life opposing the Conservative agenda.


12 posted on 07/06/2012 7:09:29 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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To: Nervous Tick

That’s not an ideology ~ it’s a personality defect!


13 posted on 07/06/2012 7:17:02 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This election is a mirror image of the last one.

Disgust with the incumbency forces anti vote.

We don't care about their side. They only care about our their own backsides.


Seeing as how we are doing what the left did not yet 4 years past, what do we expect to change? Bueller .... Albert?

14 posted on 07/06/2012 7:21:30 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; 2ndDivisionVet
Thank you, but that wasn’t specifically directed at you. I’m getting sick of the Willardbots around here shamefully attacking others because they refuse to cast a vote for a man who has spent his entire life opposing the Conservative agenda.

Maybe not, but 2DV is definitely trending that way. Really surprises me.
15 posted on 07/06/2012 8:06:47 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency.)
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To: SoConPubbie; fieldmarshaldj
Nope. Realist. I will not see Barack Hussein Obama gain a second term if I can help it. He's Chavez, Castro, Caligula, Peron, Idi Amin and every banana republic tinpot dictator who's ever worn a gaudy uniform rolled into one. We'll survive a Romney presidency, just as we survived FDR, LBJ, Ford, Jimmy Carter, both Bushes and Bill Clinton. We won't survive another Obama term, IMO. Or do you disagree?
16 posted on 07/06/2012 8:21:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (In honor of my late father, GunnerySgt/Commo Chief, USMC 1943-65)
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Nope. Realist. I will not see Barack Hussein Obama gain a second term if I can help it. He's Chavez, Castro, Caligula, Peron, Idi Amin and every banana republic tinpot dictator who's ever worn a gaudy uniform rolled into one. We'll survive a Romney presidency, just as we survived FDR, LBJ, Ford, Jimmy Carter, both Bushes and Bill Clinton. We won't survive another Obama term, IMO. Or do you disagree?

Disagree.

The GOP will not survive Romney as he will move the Party too far left for conservatives.

Without conservatives, it's base, the GOP is dead.

Mitt Romney is not Ford or the two Bushes, he is much worse as his record shows and his is a consistant liar to boot.

You've tragically have misjudged who Romney is and are ignoring his record and are tragically misjudging the damage he will do to our party.


17 posted on 07/06/2012 8:32:07 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Then we’re screwed, because either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney will be president from January 20, 2013 until January 20, 2017, barring a fatality. All this hoo-ha about Virgil Goode, Ron Paul or whatever is fantasy. There are only two parties in the United States. Everything else is a circus sideshow.


18 posted on 07/06/2012 8:42:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (In honor of my late father, GunnerySgt/Commo Chief, USMC 1943-65)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Then we’re screwed, because either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney will be president from January 20, 2013 until January 20, 2017, barring a fatality. All this hoo-ha about Virgil Goode, Ron Paul or whatever is fantasy. There are only two parties in the United States. Everything else is a circus sideshow.

Sorry, my vote is sacred, it won't wasted on either the crypto-communist or the Progressive Liberal, no matter the false accusations or fear-mongering.

Mitt Romney implemented both Gay Marriage and Socialized Medicine in MA, that should be enough for conservatives, no matter how fearful people are of Obama to find a candidate that does not violate so thoroughly their convictions and principles and that Progressive Liberal Mitt Romney.
19 posted on 07/06/2012 8:49:14 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The circus sideshow is allowing the bipartisan big gubmint cabal shove those two leftist abominations down the nation's throat as our "only" choices. Screw that.
20 posted on 07/06/2012 9:03:52 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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