Third-party campaigns can inject new ideas and force major parties to incorporate a wider array of interests.
The minor-party campaigns of Ross Perot in 1992 and Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan in 2000 are remarkable examples where their campaign increased overall voter turnout.
But lawmakers from the Democratic and Republican parties make the rules – and those rules make it very hard for third parties.
If Biden does not course correct soon, he is going to throw this election. In that case, the damage to our ability to form alliances may be permanent. How can we have any credibility with Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, etc. after witnessing the lack of seriousness which we afford to our “ironclad” commitments?
”My organizing background is the reason that a bedside emergency room nurse ... was able to break onto the political scene and move into the electoral space with success in a brief period of time.”
Why the hell we decided Judges appointed by Trump can protect Trump from stealing secret US documents, ignoring recusal is nonsense. #election2024 #2024Election
"Trump had another massive underperformance to a candidate who dropped out months ago. This time Nikki Haley got over 20% of the vote in deep red #indiana
Holy shit, that's quite a scoop! Glad I was sitting down for this.
(Solender asked me for help getting his first DC job and then blocked me on Twitter when I said his obsessive posting about meaninglessly small sub-samples in polls was clickbait that just made people dumber. A perfect Axios hack.) #media#Election2024
We are fighting because this country deserves a leader who respects our democracy, not disloyal Republicans willing to harm our citizens, divide our country and tear it to pieces for a bit of power.
We found the nazis, they attacked the Capitol on #January6th. It will take our collective effort to save our nation from the enemy within.
I’m not surprised that the FTC has found evidence of collusion with the cartel and price-gouging. Congress should pass Sen. Whithouse's windfall profits bill to return Big Oil’s excess gains to the American people’s pockets.
Scott Sheffield, CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources try to keep oil, gas prices HIGH to gouge Americans.
I am hearing conflicting opinions on #HopeHicks and her testimony at the #trump trial.
Some are saying it was very bad for trump while others are saying she bolstered the story that he did the payoff to only keep his family from finding out.
I don't think anyone disputes that #michaelcohen was Trump's attorney at the time #trump reported the hush money reimbursement to Choen as legal expenses.
It was the cover-up that was illegal. The books were cooked to protect the 2016 campaign.
Jonathan Freedland offers a summary of where we are:
'The Tories are so unpopular because so much is broken & there is not enough money to fix it. Right now, that is the Tories’ problem, one that promises to sweep them out of power. But once it has, it will become Labour’s problem. And it could hardly be more daunting'!
Of course, there being 'not enough money' is Tory policy not a fiscal fact, but otherwise this offers a fair/concise signpost to our future (I think).
The Trumpy voter-fraud people are priming the pump for conspiracies by posting silly message board questions about getting an ID to vote in elections if not a citizen.