USA Today Carries Op-Ed Advocating a 2020 Bipartisan Ticket for President and Vice President

USA Today has this op-ed by Charles Wheelan and Nick Troiano, activists in Unite America, which sponsored some independent candidates for federal and state office in 2018. The op-ed expresses the desire for a ticket in 2020 for President and Vice President that contains one Democrat and one Republican.

The op-ed suggests that John Kasich should run for President in Republican primaries, and that John Hickenlooper should run for President in Democratic primaries, and that each should pledge to name the other as his vice-presidential running mate. The op-ed also says that if they aren’t nominated, “they should reserve the right to form a third ticket in the general election.”

That would have been possible before 2012. Before 2012, virtually every state permitted presidential “sore losers” to get on the November ballot. But in 2012, the Michigan Secretary of State kept Gary Johnson off the November ballot as the Libertarian presidential nominee because he had run in that year’s Republican presidential primary. She did this even though Michigan had permitted John Anderson to be on the general election ballot in 1980 even though he also had run in the Republican presidential primary. The federal courts upheld the Secretary of State’s action, in opinions that were error-filled and rushed, and seemed more motivated at anger that Johnson’s attorney had been late to file his brief, than at attention on the issue.

Then, in 2016, Alabama, Arkansas and Pennsylvania all kept Rocky De La Fuente off the November ballot on the grounds that he had run in Democratic presidential primaries that year. This was true, even though Alabama and Arkansas both had precedents that “sore loser” presidential candidates were permitted in November (there was no prior precedent in Pennsylvania). De La Fuente sued Alabama and Pennsylvania and lost both cases, so now the U.S. has lost the ability to vote for presidential candidates in November who run outside the two major parties, after running in major party presidential primaries, almost in the blink of an eye.


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USA Today Carries Op-Ed Advocating a 2020 Bipartisan Ticket for President and Vice President — 13 Comments

  1. ONE MORE REASON TO ABOLISH THE ROBOT PARTY HACK CAUCUSES, PRIMARIES AND CONVENTIONS.


    PR AND APPV

  2. Both major parties are conspiring to make the 2020 Presidential election a referendum on Trump, and working overtime to minimize the impact of any third party, independent or fusion candidates.

  3. Pluralism is “veto or pass”, “all or nothing”, “my way or no way”, “yes or no”, D or R.

    The United Coalition USA eliminates all those cases, no exceptions, this is the new winning way – the three-party system in 2020.

    We welcome the possibility of a Libertarian as one of the two, either Prez or VP. If they do a good job, maybe voters will elect both seats as Ls, but one of the two is welcomed.

    No more two-party policy, pluralism votes and no more defense of pluralism in mesages are needed from anyone.

    Instead we get to speak about many multiples of solutions, all those garnering 50% (plus one vote) is considered approved simultaneously under ranked choice voting for decision items, but never for one single issue unless there is no other way to bring additional options and our backs are to the wall. Multiple decisions and many multiples of items, the more the better, and the highest prioritzed item cancels lower prioritized items similar in nature.

    Our team consists of three (or more) parties working together to defeat the two party system. Not one small party alone, but the 100%, all US voters are able to collaborate to get it done. No need to kick anyone in the balls, equal treatment, free speech liberties, for the whole.

  4. I am running on a black women’s ticket, along with several others, it’s for the voters of the Electoral College to decide which person they mark #1 and which is #2, under our PPR Electoral College.

    I am asking men to consider a women as their first choice, but everyone is free to mark a male or female, and should 2/3rds of the voters rank a female as #1 or #2, then the first name capturing the 33.33% (plus one vote) is elected POTUS by our college, the 2nd name garnering 33.33% (plus one vote) is VP on our team, under the rules of single transerrable votes (STV), the voters decide.

    But should 33.33% (plus one vote) go to a female name, by accident or intentionally, them a female is elected to the ticket.

    I am hopeful, that I am the #2 choice, of course, but let the voters decide in the new unifying, inclusive and mathematically correct voting system, the PPR Electoral College.

  5. Consti Lib, could you please refrain from posting your vulgar language? There are many women who read this page and your language is an embarrassment to those with manners! Thanks in advance.

  6. In the olde civilized days there was *expletive* deleted —

    NOW — the BARBARIAN NEW AGE — due in part to the statist killer/enslaver BARBARIANS in the Central Powers in WW I and in the Axis Powers in WW II —

    and the SCOTUS barbarian morons — with their 1st Amdt perversions regarding slander and libel.

  7. Ogle can you stop with the sexist language. Women are equal to men and can handle any language just as well as men. Your continued posting using sexist language and messages is an embarrassment.

  8. Brandon, I see you’re advocating for women and that’s helpful for bringing them as 50/50 partners in all multi-winner districts, thanks for joining our team plan. See you there with us 66.66%+.

  9. Well Brandon it is clear that Ogle is living in a fantasy world. Perhaps if he just got excited about J.R.R. Tolkien or J.K. Rowling he would be a happier fellow!

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