Partisan (no runoff) elections are hostile to third parties. 2/3 of the people poll as being in favor of third parties running.
If you want to feel even more at the mercy of permanent hacks, help the big parties squash the small parties with partisan local elections. We should return to making state Legislative races non-partisan. Let's open the system up, not close it down, -David Shove Roseville On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Eric Mitchell wrote: > > > --- "Arno A. Karner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 3) Of course the democrats have to eat their young, > > there are no > > republicans to eat, after the democrats stack the > > non partisan ballot, > > all thats left after the primary is democrats. > > > > There may be something to what you said here. > If we dropped the charade that these are non-partisan > races and re-structured them to be partisan races, it > would make things easier for the parties. > > No more DFLer vs DFLer on the November ballot. One > DFLer, one Republican and maybe a Green and > Independence candidate as well. > This being a DFL town, may not change the party of the > office holder in the end, but it may change the > internal adverse effects of campaigning among DFLers. > > In Pittsburgh, the race for Mayor is partisan. The > Party endorses in March, the primary is mid-May. > Pittsburgh is more of a Democratic town than St Paul > (though more conservative), since they haven't elected > a Republican since 1939, the Mayoral race is pretty > much over by mid-May. All that's left to do is spend > the next six months bringing back the Democrats who > were supporting other Dems. > > Our primary date giving us about six weeks to try to > reconcile, after six strong months of campaigning, you > can imagine some feelings are still strong. Being > non-partisan, the divide among DFLers can lead > straight into the general and the winning > administration. It also leads to the image that the > DFL goes after its own, technically we do because the > opposition is very likely to be another DFler. > > Of course partisan elections will definitly cut down > on the choice of candidates, but we'll have more > unified parties and we all can be nice. Probably not. > > Eric Mitchell > Payne Phalen > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Plan great trips with Yahoo! Travel: Now over 17,000 guides! > http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide > ------------------------------------------------- > JOIN the St. Paul Issues Forum TODAY: > http://www.e-democracy.org/stpaul/ > ------------------------------------------------- > POST MESSAGES HERE: stpaul@mnforum.org > > To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: > http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul > > Archive Address: > http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/ > ------------------------------------------------- JOIN the St. Paul Issues Forum TODAY: http://www.e-democracy.org/stpaul/ ------------------------------------------------- POST MESSAGES HERE: stpaul@mnforum.org To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul Archive Address: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/
