Matt Miller, regular columnist for the Washington Post, has published this column, “Why We Need a Third Party.” The column has a link, toward the end, to a lengthy additional commentary on what the new party should advocate.
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Pollster Stanley B. Greenberg has this interview in New York Magazine. He says poll data shows that independent voters “are a hodgepodge”; they are not a monolithic group of moderates. On the other hand, he then proceeds to characterize them, which seems somewhat contradictory.
He also says that it is virtually inevitable that there will be a strong presidential candidate in 2012 running outside the two major parties.
Ballot Access News
September 1, 2011 – Volume 27, Number 4
| This issue was printed on brown paper. |
Table of Contents
- 2011 DONATIONS TO MINOR PARTIES ON STATE INCOME TAX FORMS ARE THREE TIMES HIGHER THAN IN 2010
- CALIFORNIA VETO
- DELAWARE IMPROVES BALLOT ACCESS
- NEW OHIO BALLOT ACCESS LAWSUIT
- ARE POLITICAL PARTIES BAD FOR SOCIETY?
- INDEPENDENT VOTING
- LAWSUIT NEWS
- 2011 PARTY REVENUE FROM STATE INCOME TAX “CHECK-OFF”
- TOTALS FOR THE ENTIRE NATION THROUGH HISTORY, 2000-2011
- 2012 PETITIONING FOR PRESIDENT
- FORMER MISSOURI LEGISLATOR JOINS CONSTITUTION PARTY
- 2011 STATE ELECTIONS
- LIBERTARIAN PARTY GIVES $50,000 TO INDIANAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL MEMBER
- GOP CHAIR SIGNS BALLOT ACCESS PETITION, GETS IN TROUBLE
- SUBSCRIBING TO BAN WITH PAYPAL
Mary Ann Lindley, editorial page editor of the Tallahassee Democrat, has commentary about Americans Elect in the September 24 issue of her newspaper. I haven’t linked to it, because if I do, anyone who clicks on the link simply gets a notice from the newspaper that the reader must pay to read the column. But anyone who uses news.google.com and searches for “New player takes on the two-party system” should find the column and then it can be read freely.
Here are the results of the September 24 Florida Republican straw poll vote. Apparently write-ins weren’t permitted.