Demcrats Back Third Party Candidates to Siphon Votes

[Chuckiechan]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/us...&partner=MYWAY

So typical. Added to their standard vote fraud, corruption is one of the few growth industries under Obama.

[tony_j15]

I'll agree. This is clearly entirely unethical, and things like this:

the Democratic candidate for a suburban Philadelphia House seat, Bryan Lentz, admitted this week that his volunteers helped Jim Schneller — a prominent skeptic of President Obama’s citizenship — collect petitions to run against Mr. Lentz and his Republican opponent, Pat Meehan.

should be illegal. I find it very disheartening that politicos will go to such lengths.

[Chuckiechan]

At some point there won't be an honest Democrat who wishes to identify with the party. Kind of like what is driving the Tea Party - crooked elites who seem to feel they are untitled to their offices "just because".

Things like "The Kennedy seat", "The Biden seat", etc. Not working out to well.

[sharder8]

At some point there won't be an honest Democrat who wishes to identify with the party. Kind of like what is driving the Tea Party - crooked elites who seem to feel they are untitled to their offices "just because".

Things like "The Kennedy seat", "The Biden seat", etc. Not working out to well.

Like there's even one honest politician today.


Harder

[Toadman]

At some point there won't be an honest Democrat who wishes to identify with the party. Kind of like what is driving the Tea Party - crooked elites who seem to feel they are untitled to their offices "just because".

Maybe to save their "rightful seats" they should embrace "Operation Reverse Chaos" to remove the fungus in the White House who hijacked the Democratic Party and back Hillary in 2012. Let the referendum fall on Obama and remove his viability as re-electable.

It's a somewhat brilliant plan that worries Repubs who would have to come up with a strong candidate to face Hillary however.

Sounds like a win-win for Dems instead of backing the 20-month lame duck. They're gonna get shellacked Nov 2nd anyways. Might as well position for the oval office in '12.

[tony_j15]

Perhaps this can be solved by forcing runoff elections, by requiring over 50% of the vote to avoid runoff.

If you have 3 parties, one candidate gets 35% and the other two get 32.5% each, why should the 35% win, when 65% of the people didn't vote for them?

What the crap is that?

Actually, that's closer to how democracy actually functions when you look at other nations. Look at Britain, for example.
Requiring over half is basically the problem we have now, so your idea won't fix anything.

[pickel]

Like there's even one honest politician today.


Harder

You're saying , in recorded history, there EVER was one ???????

Even Cain killed his opponent Without repercussions.......

[Chuckiechan]

If you can't get half of the people to support you, then keep running elections until you do.

All run off's do empower third parties to siphon votes, and a runoff makes it even more effective.