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Wednesday, Mar 4, 2009

Do you want real change in our government? I'm not talking about the change that Obama spoke of this past election cycle. I'm talking about real change. A government that pays attention to you and not Exxon, a government that cares about your family and not ACORN, A government that pays attention to all the people not just the ones rich enough to contribute to their campaigns. I have an answer.

STOP VOTING FOR REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm not sure all of you heard that, so I'll say it again: STOP VOTING FOR REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you know that there are at least 51 political parties in the good ol' USA. I bet most of you reading this can't name more than six. Personlly I thought that there were 10 at the most. Only TWO of them get any money from the government. Talk about taxation without representaion.

The Dems. and Reps. have rigged the system. In our country a political party HAS to garner at least 10% of the vote in the previous presidential election to receive elections funds from the federal government. The only party in recent history to achieve this goal was Ross Perot's Reform party and that only lasted from 1992 to 1996.

In Great Britain, there are at least 158 recognized parties for a populas of about 59 million That is ruffly the population of California and Texas combined. We have nearly 304 million people in the USA, and TWO parties that have a stranglehold on American politics.

I'm sure that some of you are asking yourselves how do we change this? The answer is simple. STOP VOTING REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT!!! Personally I have only voted for three major party candidates in the last 28 years (Reagan, G.H Bush, and McCain). Every time I have voted I pulled the lever for the person I thought most closely represented my beliefs. I have voted form Reformers, Libritarians, and even one independent.

Vote for one of the other 49. Do a little research and vote for the man or woman that represents YOU, I don't care if it's the Libritarian Party, the Pot party, the American Nazi Party, the Democrats or Republicans. Just find out which one represents you. It dosen't mater if your candidate wins, what matters is that all of our populas are represented and that won't happen till all the parties get federal funding and the playing field is leveled.

If you want more info on the choices you have I found this website very helpful. www.politics1.com/parties.htm

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Posted by ssimonds1, 9:15am
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I have voted for the Constitution Party on a few occasions when they had candidates represented - mostly it's been for local and state rep elections. Their ideals match mine much more than the current Republican lily livers in office. Unfortunately, most people are afraid of "wasting" their votes by splitting them and ending up with the worse of two evils in office between the Dems and Republicans. Personally, I don't think a vote is ever "wasted" if it is for the right candidate. It takes time but it's how a new party rises up.
Posted Mar 4, 2009 10:43 am PT
I don't know if any of you who read this are South Park fans, but 4 years ago they did an elections show. The school was choosing a new mascot. As a joke the boys put forth two suggestion, a sh!t sandwich and a giant douche, which turned out to be the only nominees. The point of the show was that in American politics that's what you usually end up with in office a giant douche or a sh!t sandwich, and we deserve better than that.

I agree that no vote is ever wasted, even if you write in Alfred E. Newman. The waste is when you sit on your a$$ and do nothing.
Posted Mar 4, 2009 10:56 am PT
I have voted for third party candidates for some offices, but not for president. The reason they'll never win in presidential elections is that they more often than not play spoiler roles. It is generally accepted that Ross Perot took votes away from GHWB in 1992, whether it was enough to cost Bush the election, we'll never know. And there is no doubt that Ralph Nader helped elect George W. Bush in 2000. The problem is we have a winner-take-all electoral system, in which a candidate can win all of a state's electoral votes simply by winning a small plurality of the popular vote. A majority vote should be required to win a state. If there is no majority, then that state's votes would be distributed in proportion to the popular vote, though that would increase the likelihood of the election going to the House of Representatives, which hasn't happened since 1824. Until these changes occur, we are almost certainly stuck with Elephants and Jacka$$es.
Posted Mar 7, 2009 3:02 pm PT
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