ABC News has this story about the 2012 presidential election, and alternatives to the two major parties. Like many other stories, this story quotes an authority who says that if someone were elected President who wasn’t the nominee of either of the two major parties, that person would not be able to work with Congress. In this case the quoted authority is Professor Jonathan Ladd.
It is surprising that people who make this point never seem to remember that the U.S. has had six minor party or independent Governors elected in the last 40 years (two in Maine, and one each in Minnesota, Alaska, Connecticut, and Rhode Island), and that these Governors did work with their state legislatures and did get things done.
Will the major media EVER detect the minority rule gerrymander math in the U.S.A. since 4 July 1776 ???
1/2 votes x 1/2 gerrymander districts = 1/4 CONTROL.
Much worse primary math.
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P.R. and nonpartisan App.V. — before it is too late.
Hard to argue that the current occupant of the White House is successfully working with congress. Only reason it worked so well for W was his party controlled both houses and he chose not to veto anything for the first term.
And Lincoln Chafee (I) in Rhode Island.
The Green Party is actually mentioned twice in a mainstream media story.
The Blackout breaks. Well, that’s a good sign.
Now a thousand more Green Party stories in mainstream American media every day, and we’re on to something.
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Speaking of those independent governors you mention… I’m playing phone tag with the office of Angus King, former independent governor of Maine, to see if I can interview him. Not only because of this, but I’m going to feel out his potential interest in being a candidate on the Americans Elect ticket, to see if he might be amenable to the idea if a draft campaign for him got some momentum.
#3, thank you. I fixed the post.