Over 50% of Americans Want 3rd Party Candidate

[Spider]

It would be pretty interesting. CPD says he has to get at least 15% in 5(?) legit national polls, and he's been pulling 10% so far. He's also going to be on the ballot in all 50 states and the district....so its technically pretty possible to get him into the debates. With Trump and Clinton both being underhumans with historically wretched numbers...could be interesting. I think he got less than 1% of votes last time, and I'm not sure who he would pull more votes from if he got camera time...but in principle it would be pretty great to have him up there.

[Philly]

WASHINGTON—Reflecting widespread dissatisfaction with the two major parties’ presumptive nominees for president, a Gallup poll released Monday found that a sizable segment of the U.S. electorate would strongly consider supporting an equally unlikable third-party candidate in the general election. “If presented with an equivalently unpleasant and grating alternative to the current frontrunners, it appears that as many as half of all registered voters would be open to casting their ballot for such a detestable outsider,” said Gallup spokesman Harold Ripley, adding that nearly 18 percent of respondents stated definitively that they would support a candidate unaffiliated with either the Republican or Democratic party whose name and face, every time they see it, would similarly cause them to wince in disgust and grow infuriated. “Even this late in the race, it seems there’s still a viable path to the White House for someone—beyond the mainstream parties’ likely nominees—for whom the prospect of seeing them at work in the Oval Office just kind of makes you sick to your stomach.” The poll also revealed that about one in eight U.S. voters would readily back a presidential candidate who was significantly more vile and loathsome than either of the current options.

http://www.theonion.com/article/poll-fi ... nlik-52899

[spacemonkey]

Then over 50% needs to get their lazy asses out and vote.

[John Galt]

[John Galt]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 55751.html

nevermind. maybe we should just have two parties

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[Spider]

[IndependentProfessor]

Best way to do away with a 2-party system? Get rid of party primaries. Imagine the choices you'd have if you went to the voting booth, and got to choose from anyone who got more than 5000 signatures. You'd be able to select from 3-4 Republicans, 3-4 Democrats, and 5-6 "other" parties. It'd be great. And, then the top 2 people head into a runoff, regardless of party. You could have a D vs R, a D vs D, and R vs R, or even a couple of "others' versus each other.

[Philly]

[IndependentProfessor]