Kahlil Byrd, the former CEO for Americans Elect, has formed a SuperPAC to help the presidential candidacy of Evan McMullin. See this story.
Kahlil Byrd, the former CEO for Americans Elect, has formed a SuperPAC to help the presidential candidacy of Evan McMullin. See this story.
What a waste , instead of helping out Gary Johnson .
Twin Evil plant; that’s what these people are.
*plants
How many DIVIDE and CONQUER machinations going on and on ???
— by both left and right OLIGARCH special interest GANGS.
One more evil giant scheme to get TOP 2 into ALL the governments in the USA ???
Johnny… this benefits Johnson, many Johnson supporters are NOT conservatives. They’re disgruntled moderate and liberal Republicans and moderate and conservative Democrats. This guy will pull more of the conservative base and will likely harm the Constitution Party the most. This is really creating a 5-way race, now that the Green Party will be having a town hall next week. 25% to 35% of the vote wins the election.
Trump likes larger field???
He can return to a more statesman pose in a sea of defective candidates
Regardless of who BFA takes votes away from, this helps third parties in the long run. BFA is looking to tackle the ballot access restrictions in states where they missed, so this will help for 2020.
It’s to late to run a serious Independent presidential challenge .He should have ran 6 months ago .How many people are going to stay home on Election day anyways .That is an issue that should be discussed by the media.
You get a lot of, um, eccentric voices here at Ballot Access News (“crackpots” would be a less kind term) who don’t seem to get the real world. The previous post about McMullin had people talking about a candidate I have never heard of as having a lot of name recognition. I have a print subscription to The New York Times, digital subscriptions to the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, and during this election year, I read the websites Politico, Real Clear Politics and FiveThirtyEight every day. I think the guy whose name I didn’t recognize is the Constitutional Party presidential candidate. But the Constitutional (or Constitution — I don’t really know) Party doesn’t exist in the real world, and by “real world,” I mean the world of non-crackpots. As someone who’s run for Congress in general elections on the Green Party and Americans Elect Party lines, as well as the Democratic Party, I don’t think that minor parties have much of a role in the American electoral process. I mean, it’s fun to go to Ballot Access News and read about this stuff, but most of this is really irrelevant in the real world. For a good view of minor (alternate, third, zine, crackpot) parties, is yesterday’s podcast discussion on FiveThirtyEight featuring the Marquette University professor Julia Azari (it’s the last twenty minutes so you should go ahead if that’s all you’re interested in): http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-conversation-about-skewed-polls-is-back/
FiveThirtyEight does not keep track of any candidates other than Clinton, Trump and Johnson because they are the only ones on the ballot on all fifty states.
I’m inclined toward Prof. Azari’s view is that people drawn toward third parties would be more effective if they teamed up with movements within the two major parties. That is why, to me, fusion is the only proper role for minor parties. In New York State, the Conservative, Independence, Liberal, American Labor, and Working Families parties have had much more influence in government, not just crackpot jerking around, than any parties who don’t (or can’t) engage in fusion.
Well, time for me to return to the real world.
Richard Grayson – The area where third parties have the largest impact is in elections for local office. In a small town council election, a third party candidate can run a campaign with limited resources and be on the same footing as major party candidates. Minor party and independent candidates for local offices regularly win elections throughout the country.
The Constitution Party presidential candidate is Darrell Castle a bankruptcy lawyer who served in the Marines Corp and was trained by Lt Colonel Oliver North when he was a First Lieutenant and Darrell Castle was a Second Lieutenant.
Richard Grayson, thanks for illuminating us on crackpots. Your insight from the world of real crackpots was helpful.
Americans Elect and Better For America are nothing but Billionaire globalists and Neo-Cons who are determined to keep their interests in power. They created these Stalking Horse parties to make sure their puppets on both sides are held in check.
+1 for what Another person said.
As a long-time follower of third party politics and Publisher Emeritus of IPR…I agree with Richard above. Not that third parties are irrelevant (though often they are), but that fusion is the best way to make them more relevant. Imagine having candidates in close races bowing down to the LP or Greens in a state so they could get their endorsement?