Posted on 02/22/2008 8:12:35 AM PST by tlb
If the hill&bill show makes an exit, algore will get in, and I don’t think he’ll go third party. And he’s got the same cult-like following o’bambi does.
Wouldn't that be sweet! After all, it was Nadir who kept the Goron out of the White House in 2000.
Do it, Ralph ... your country needs you.
Nader hints at an announcement (Sunday?)
run ralph run!!!!!!
the country needs you....now more than ever!!!!
The Dems may have found their Harold Stassen
I agree that Ralph should run and split the liberal vote. Usually, the strongest third-party presidential candidate takes votes from the party who has the presidency during that election. In 2000, when Clinton was President, Nader split the anti-Bush vote. Nader got 3%, helping Bush win. In 1992, when President George H.W. Bush ran for re-election, many Republicans voted for Perot. Perot got 19% and helped Clinton win. In 1976, when President Ford ran, many conservatives voted for Eugene McCarthy, an independent; Lestor Maddox, of the American Independent Party; and MacBride, a Libertarian. This helped Carter win with only 49.95% of the popular vote. (Few people know how close that election was. The last time a Democrat was elected president with a majority of the popular vote was 1964.) In 1968, when Johnson was President, George Wallace ran as an independent, and the anti-Nixon vote split, helping Nixon win with about 45%.
Since we have a republican president, the strongest third-party candidate will be a conservative, unless a well-known Green Party candidate, Ralph Nader or Cynthia McKinney, runs. I hope that all voters who are anti-liberal will unite and help the Republican.
“He’ll announce that he just bought a Corvair.”
...that runs on dog poop.
Although the spirit of your comments is generally in the right direction, I think you’ll find there was no case in which Gene McCarthy even remotely affected the outcome of a state’s electoral vote in the Ford-Carter race of 1976.
Just imagine if Ron Paul, Ralph Nader, Bloomberg and the loser of Hillary/Obama all ran as third party candidates.
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Oliver Cromwell was hanged, drawn and quartered for treason two years after he died!
In 1976, McCarthy received about 60,000 votes in Ohio, and the other third-party candidates received about 41,000 votes, in Ohio. Carter received less than the majority and beat Ford by about 11,000 votes, in Ohio. In Wisconsin, McCarthy received about 35,000 votes, and the other third-party candidates received about 25,000 votes. Carter received less than the majority and beat Ford by about 35,000 votes, in Wisconsin. If McCarthy and the other third-party candidates didn’t run, Ford probably would have won those states and a few other states that he barely lost. In the electoral college, Carter beat Ford, 297-240. If Ford won OH and WI, he would have received 274 electoral votes.
This campaign has already gots one of those!
Gee - Clinton must really be toast, or Ralphie-boy wouldn’t be sticking his neck up again. The Arkencide industry is deeply saddened.
UNSAFE AT ANY AGE
go ralph, go!!!
(one would think that he draws lefty loon votes from democrat candidates?)
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