On April 23, MSNBC aired an interview with David Walker, who recently has been mentioned as someone whom Americans Elect might conceivably nominate. The interviewer is Chuck Todd, host of the Daily Rundown.
Walker says he does not want to run for President, but his demeanor seems to suggest that he doesn’t mind at all that there is a draft committee, which will be working to qualify him for the Americans Elect primary. The draft effort must persuade 10,000 Americans Elect participants to “click” for him, by May 15. Then, if that happens, Walker (and any other person for which a draft committee has obtained enough clicks) has two weeks to decide whether to accept the draft. Currently, Ron Paul’s draft committee has over 8,000 clicks but no one else is close to qualifying.
In the interview, Walker mentions Gary Johnson as the likely nominee of the Libertarian Party, but then he says that the Libertarian Party is on the ballot in 27 states, and the implication is that that number won’t increase. But actually, the Libertarian Party is now on the ballot in 31 states, and that number is expected to increase to 49 or 50 by the end of the petitioning periods. Some of the petitions aren’t due until September. Walker also mentions Buddy Roemer, but Walker then describes Roemer as someone who is seeking the Reform Party nomination. Walker doesn’t mention that Roemer is also seeking the Americans Elect nomination. Walker then praises Americans Elect and says it will be on the ballot in all 50 states, without mentioning that currently, Americans Elect is only on in 26 states.
Even Ron Paul is not as close to qualifying as those numbers might suggest — the AE rules currently require that a candidate secure at least 1,000 support clicks in each of 10 states. Paul has only 4,223 supporters on AE from his 10 best states combined.
In fairness to Paul, though, he is far ahead of everyone else — he has more supporters on AE in his 10 best states than anyone else does in all 50 states.
Only BAN (with its gigabytes database) knows actual / potential ballot access stuff — due to a zillion EVIL insane UN-equal laws and hundreds / thousands of MORON court cases.
i.e. the MORON candidates should keep their mouths shut about ballot access — it makes them look like legal idiots (which they are).
i.e. Obama has an ARMY of statists working on his robot speeches, executive orders, etc. — keeping him up to date second by EVIL second.
I believe that the person who wins will still face being ignored by the media. AE seems to be falling apart and to be honest I really don’t think they are working for a third choice but their own self intrests. It will be intresting to see who their candidate will be but I am still waiting to see if Scott Keller or other candiates can win.
AE seems to be trying very hard to avoid nominating Buddy Roemer.
I had a dream two nights ago about AE. Their nominee did quite well in the general election in my dream. Their nominee was (drumroll please)… Mark Cuban.
The sad things is, they’re having such a tough time recruiting candidates that delegates can get excited for that I wouldn’t be surprised if they stooped to that level.
Paul’s 10th-best State, North Carolina has 268 supporters. So he needs about 4X supporters of what he has now. Roemer is about 1/8th of the way there. Walker has 8/1000 of the level needed.
Mark Cuban was a big supporter of Unity08, what Americans Elect was named back in 2008.
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