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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (643101)	10/12/2004 9:08:52 AM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Frankly, I think anyone who gets on a National ticket deserves to be in the debates. Even though I am a Republican, I freely admit I believe the two parties dont wish to see a 3rd or more parties become successful. I dont agree with that myself. While a 3rd party candidate cant actually win a National election, he or she can bring to the agenda ideas that might be adopted by one or both of the other parties. jdn

To: TideGlider who wrote (643101)	10/12/2004 8:38:14 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Polls show that most of the American public agree with your views on this... but the Presidential Debate Commission is owned by the two big Parties, so it's understandable why they would want to keep competition out. (IMO, the two biggest fundimental problems that underlie this issue of 'two Party dominance' are: 1) Gerrymandering [which creates 'safe' districts for each Party, and squeezes out the moderates in the middle], and 2) a wrongful Supreme Court decision on the issue of "fusion voting" which gave the States [read: the two dominant Parties] the authority to PREVENT minor Parties from endorsing one of the big Party candidates if they liked that candidate's views, and putting that candidate on their ballot line too. You see, if for example, Bush won an election and he saw that 10% or so of his final votes [much more then the margin of victory for him over his Dem opponent] came from the 'Conservative Party', or from the 'Libertarian Party', then he would be much more likely to adopt some of the political positions of those Parties, to keep their members who voted for him in his camp next time.) Fusion Voting allows the smaller Parties to grow, because --- if they endorse one of the 'big Party candidates' then people who vote for the minor Party need not feer their vote 'going to waste'. Also, some of their more innovative ideas are more likely to make it into the mainstream for consideration.