Remember, not as many people who CAN vote DO vote. I think a lot of it has
to do with the corruption and lies from both major parties. THAT is why you
are seeing an upsurge in 3rd party candidates, and you will continue to see
that phenomenon until there is a major reformation of the political system
as it is now.
Maybe Nader can't get elected this time, but I would bet you good money that
someone like Jesse Ventura could next time.
And I don't buy that America is a right of center country. An awful lot of
people who could vote don't because they feel disenfranchised. I think a
lot of you will be shocked by how much Nader makes. I think he will get at
least 7% of the vote, maybe as much as 11 or 12%
Peter Horton
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----- Original Message -----
From: J. van Baardwijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 1:03 AM
Subject: Re: Voting Third Party
> At 16:50 30-10-00 -0800, John Giorgis wrote:
>
> >There is no constituency for
> >a large left wing party in America. Sure, a Green/Social Democrat
> >party could drag itself up to 10% or so. But what will that get them?
>
> That would get them more influence than you'd probably like: 10% still
> means 27.6 million potential voters (source: US Census Bureau,
> www.census.gov). (Think long-term here; not all of those 27.6 million are
> old enough to vote *yet*.)
>
> In your current system, it won't get them a single seat in Congress and/or
> the Senate, but both the Democrats and the Republicans will try very hard
> to get those votes.
>
> In a system of proportional representation they would get them ~10% of the
> seats in both Congress and the Senate. Assuming that neither the Democrats
> nor the Republicans will get an absolute majority, the Green/Social
> Democrat party would be quite powerful, since both other parties would
have
> to form a coalition with them in order to get a majority.
>
>
> Jeroen
>
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