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.
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.
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.
We are in dire need of a socialist POTUS anyway.
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!
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.
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?
Considering the combined third-party vote in 2008 was less than 1.5%, third-party candidates seem to set to have a greater impact in this race.
Romney is doing considerably worse against Obama when the third-party candidates are figured in. Too bad for the Romneybots.
If the favorites today were to be nominated, the Democrats would be running a Communist, and the Republicans would be running a Socialist.
Hence, after Romney loses to Obama by 10 %, it will be time for us to take over the Republican Party and run our candidates in 2014 and 2016.
Unless, of course, Nalph Raider wants to jump in for another go at capturing those dyslexics on the butterfly ballot. I'd send him a check!
Goode news for Glove, Goode is not (as of today, I don’t think time is up yet) on the ballot in his critical home state of VA (only 17 states so far) the only state I could see him making a dent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012#Third_party_candidates
He is on TN ballot for you though DJ.
I have been vehement in saying we have to replacew Mitt at the convention. replace him with a real conservative and start shopping now. I oppose Mitt for three reasons: 1).He is liberal. 2). If he is not liberal, he is willing to change his views for convenience and that is just as bad, 3). Obama has been preparing for him since 2008 and they have a load of ammo. The great Bear Bryan used to say that when you pass the ball, three things can happen and two of those are bad. (Incomplete and Interception). With Romney two things can happen:, 1). he wins, and 2). he loses. Both bad. If I have to hold my nose and vote for him, so be it, but I will feel a lot better if we put up a good fight at the convention with the possibility of coming out of it with a real conservative!!!!