WASHINGTON — They campaign in near anonymity, these third-party contenders who stand no shot at the presidency. Their supporters are castigated for wasting their votes. But don’t write them off just yet. In hotly contested swing states, their presence on the ballot may alter the course of the election.
In Virginia, where Mitt Romney and President Obama are running neck and neck, former Republican congressman Virgil Goode’s crusade for the Oval Office could draw conservatives and tip the state away from Romney. In “live free or die” New Hampshire, Libertarian Gary Johnson, the former Republican governor of New Mexico, is a wild card, potentially siphoning votes from both Romney and Obama. And in Colorado, where a marijuana initiative is on the ballot, Johnson’s support for legalizing marijuana could hurt Obama among young voters.
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Please give these candidates a listen.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ThirdPartyPresid
Dr. Jill Stein spent the last debate handcuffed to a chair for daring to protest exclusion from debates.
What if she got arrested for running out onto the field to try to help the Greens take part in the World Series. Why just those two teams?
LavransRM. Where to begin. Because, the rules of baseball call for 2 teams? Because jumping onto the field is an unlawful act unlike protesting in a public space?
Interesting. If enough Liberetards vote for John Galt or whatever his name is instead of Romney, that could be helping Obama get re-elected. Sounds like a plan.
OMIG - pass out the Ralph Nader masks!
This is a story and the Benghazi Betrayal is not?
Boston Globe view of the world ... Benghazi never happened, Obama administration calls Fort Hood 'workplace violence' and that's just fine by the Globe. No need to report on that stuff, or drone attacks, or kill lists, or continuation of Patriot Act and loss of habeus corpus rights.
Can we please put to rest the myth that Ralph Nader caused Gore to lose the 2000 election to Bush. In spite of the voter suppression that took place in Florida, approximately 250,000 registered Democrats voted for Bush.Bush won the electoral college by one vote, 271! Gore's loss of his home state of Tennessee and its eleven electoral votes and IMO his poor campaigning, was the reason for his loss. With Tenn., Gore would have won 277 votes and Bush would have won 260; needed to win the Electoral College and the presidency, 270 votes.