The Times-Picayune, the daily newspaper of New Orleans, has this story about Buddy Roemer’s association with Americans Elect. The story has new information about the interaction between the two.
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Edited By Richard Winger
The Times-Picayune, the daily newspaper of New Orleans, has this story about Buddy Roemer’s association with Americans Elect. The story has new information about the interaction between the two.
Interesting. WSJ has an article about third party candidates:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203710704577054501776975774.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories
#1, I already made a blog post about that Wall Street Journal article. It is today’s post that is just underneath the links to the printed Nov. 1 2011 Ballot Access News. When one clicks on the link you provided, one can only read the first paragraph. I think I explained in my blog post how anyone can read the whole article.
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FYI, there was a half-page article about Americans Elect in the Washington Post yesterday. Buddy Roemer was mentioned.
Is a guy who couldn’t even get access to the primary debates and most people don’t even know exists really going to be their wonder candidate? If so, this whole experiment will have been a colossal failure.
Well, I finally signed up with Americans Elect this morning. I spent a lot of time answering a survey that contains policy questions. I got through 210 questions and still did not finish. In addition, the website seemed a little cumbersome in one place (that is a pretty normal, with me, actually).
Here is something that I entered on prior pages of this website (“Ballot Access News”) regarding Americans Elect and the presidential election of 2012:
15.Phil Sawyer Says:
November 19th, 2011 at 10:38 am
6.Brandon Magoon wrote [in an earlier post]:
November 14th, 2011 at 8:47 am
It’s a lot more likely Ron Paul [rather than Buddy Roemer] will run as an opposition party candidate and appeal to the OWS people. After all he already has supporters there.
7.Phil Sawyer replied [in that earlier post]:
November 15th, 2011 at 7:20 pm
The really interesting thing about the Buddy Roemer campaign, though, is that he seems to be something of a populist. With all due respect to Dr. Ron Paul, not all mavericks in the Republican Party are libertarian in orientation.
4.Jeff Becker responded [in that prior post]:
November 17th, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Phil, I don’t see Ron Paul as running to be an “opposition” candidate. That kind of mischief does not appear to be in his philosophy. Ron Paul already said that he didn’t want to do it. Given that he had his real chance three years ago, I tend to believe him. I don’t know what happene[d] between him and Bob Barr last time, but I’m not holding my breath for another CP endorsement.
Phil Sawyer responds:
Jeff: First of all, just to be clear, it was Brandon Magoon who suggested that Rep. Ron Paul might “run as an opposition party candidate and appeal to the OWS people.” With that being stated, though, I have to say that it has been my impression, from reading these pages, that Dr. Paul might be having some second thoughts about staying in the Republican Party this time around. My guess is that (if that is true) the great progress, so far, of Americans Elect has a lot to do with it.
For many years now, I have been writing that the opportunity for new political groups gets better and better as the GOP continues to shrink down to the size of a minor-sized political party. It seems to me that the independent and/or third party vote (overall) will take more votes away from the Republican Party than the Democratic Party in 2012.
Since I am not a true libertarian in political philosophy (although I do agree with libertarians on certain issues, of course – as any intelligent and reasonable person would); it is of no great concern to me if Dr. Paul decides to run an independent and/or third party presidential campaign or not. If he does do so, I will just say: Good luck and I hope that you really shake things up!
After thinking about the above a little more, I realized that I should have written that the Americans Elect website is rather cumbersome in at least one place and is cumbersome and/or difficult to understand in at least one other place. In addition, here is “a word to the wise”: If you sign up for Americans Elect, it would not be a good idea to start on the policy survey if you have other things to do right ahead of you. It took me so much time just to get through 210 questions (along with everything else) that I am going to have to put off a couple of things that I had planned on doing until tomorrow!