Oregon Independent Party, and Minnesota Independence Party, Will Try to Work for a Joint Presidential Nominee with Other Centrist Parties

Posted on by May 10, 2016

The Oregon Independent Party (which is ballot-qualified) and the Minnesota Independence Party (which is not ballot-qualified) announced on May 10 that they will seek to organize all the nation’s centrist minor parties and possibly nominate a presidential candidate. They are planning a national meeting but have not yet decided whether it will be before, during, or after the major party presidential conventions.

Other centrist parties on the ballot include the Independent Party of Delaware, the Independent Party of Florida, the Independence Party of Florida, the Independent Party of Hawaii, the United Independent Party of Massachusetts, the Natural Law Party of Michigan, the Independence Party of New York, the Moderate Party of Rhode Island, the American Party of South Carolina, and the Independence Party of South Carolina. Also, the Reform Party is on the ballot in Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The Oregon Independent Party and the Minnesota Independence Party has not said publicly which parties they are in touch with, but chances are the parties named above are on their list.

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Oregon Independent Party, and Minnesota Independence Party, Will Try to Work for a Joint Presidential Nominee with Other Centrist Parties — 12 Comments

  1. The Independent Party of Florida is in the process of being disqualified, though they are appealing the decision.

  2. NO such thing as centrist —

    MORE or LESS STATISM — for ALL of recorded political history.

  4. In 2004, I wanted to create a coalition of centrist third parties such as this. At the time, the Natural Law Party of California was not yet disqualified from the ballot. We were going to bring a lot of the original Perot people to support Nader in 2004 in exchange for him petitioning the Independence Party on to the Michigan ballot, instead of an independent petition, since it required the same amount of signatures. We were betrayed by the Nader campaign.

    I am for Trump in this election, but I do think it would be a good thing for the country to have a coalition of parties, such as this. The key, though, is for the parties to exclusively exist at the state level with the exception of nominating a ticket. Too many third parties become obsessed with national leadership fights, when really all the real political action is at the state level.

  5. Trump *is* a centrist. He’s also, in my opinion, a bigoted, obnoxious, dangerously ignorant and uninformed narcissistic megalomaniac who would be a disaster as President. But he’s definitely a centrist.

    There is a myth that all centrists are moderates. Trump is not a moderate.

    Some people conflate centrists, moderates, and independents. They are three different categories.

    Most of the people involved in the parties listed here belong in a fourth category: crackpots.

  6. There are also people that could be categorized as the ‘radical center’. This means people who are moderate, in that they do not always take the compromise position between liberal and conservative. But, instead they have some views that are very conservative and some views that are very liberal.

    For instance, someone could be pro-gun and for controlling immigration, but for single payer health care. They have (or at least up until now) had no future in either party because they failed the litmus test. I wish we had a multi-party system so it could allow for a larger diversity of platforms.

  7. Maybe in the short-term, this might work, but in the long-term it will not; they might agree on a single candidate and a few basic issues, but on everything else they could easily butt heads and fracture; the only way a moderate, or ‘radical centrist’ political party can survive and prosper in American politics is if one large faction or even two factions from one or both of the major parties broke off and unified together to form a new moderate/centrist party with the proper bylaws, organizational strength,and activist base to sustain it in the long run in mainstream politics.

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