The Federalist Carries Story About Democratic Party Attempts to Prevent Voters from Voting for “Left” Parties and Candidates

The Federalist has this article by Victoria Marshall, detailing Democratic Party efforts from 2004 through the present to prevent voters from voting for parties or candidates to the left of the Democratic Party.

The story says nothing about the period 1936-1980. Democrats tried to keep the 1936 Union Party off the ballot in Pennsylvania; to keep the Progressive Party off the ballot in 1948 in Illinois; to keep independent presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy off the ballot in New York in 1976; and to keep independent presidential candidate John Anderson off the ballot in 1980 in Massachusetts and North Carolina.

By contrast, Republicans did not take action to keep minor party or independent presidential candidates off the ballot in any state until 2008, when the Republican Party tried to keep Libertarian nominee Bob Barr off the Pennsylvania ballot.


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The Federalist Carries Story About Democratic Party Attempts to Prevent Voters from Voting for “Left” Parties and Candidates — 14 Comments

  1. Ranked choice voting would lessen the motivation of any party to block any other party or candidates from the ballot.

  2. REAL reforms –
    ONE election day — NOOO extremist caucuses, primaries and conventions for public office nominations.
    PR
    APPV

    later Condorcet with Appv tiebreaker = RCV done right.

  3. The 2008 GOP candidate would rather lose than be seen as racist or homophobe. If he focused on Obama as a muslim illegal alien married to a man he may have won the election. Of course in retrospect he probably would have started a war with Iran and may have started WWIII with Russia. Everyone should have just voted for Bob Barr.

  4. I voted for Bob Barr. It was my second time voting for an LP Presidential candidate. The first was Ron Paul in 1988.

  5. Look at the fascist/demonic background to Xo Widen’s fascist/demonic speech last night. If you still had any questions that should have answered them.

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