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Towlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 07:01 PM
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No, Tweety, third party candidates don't suck, the system sucks.
The whole principle of voting shatters to pieces when there are more than two choices.
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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 07:05 PM
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1. Third party candidates suck in our current system. And they will until
we change the system.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 07:06 PM
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2. For once, I agree with Tweety.
Third party candidates splinter and detract from consensus generally. There hasn't been a third party that was able to coalesce around a viable candidate for decades. He was right on with his analysis that third party candidates have delivered to us some ugly people filling the offices they failed at trying to gain for themselves.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 07:16 PM
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3. What would anyone expect from someone like Tweety whose living rides on the status quo?
Edited on Wed Apr-14-10 07:16 PM by Forkboy
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SocialistLez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 07:27 PM
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4. I love the third party candidate running in AR
for Senate.

His name is John Gray and he's running with the Green Party.

In '08 the Green Party challenger for Mark Pryor got over 15% of the vote.

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