Posted on 07/31/2012 12:45:01 PM PDT by nhwingut
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's re-election effort is paying close attention to two candidates mounting third-party campaigns for the presidency, believing they could draw votes from Republican rival Mitt Romney and help Obama win a few tightly contested states.
One candidate is Virgil Goode, a former conservative Virginia congressman who is running as a member of the Constitution Party. The other is Gary Johnson, a former two-term Republican governor of New Mexico who is the Libertarian Party's presidential nominee.
Obama's team has scenarios whereby Obama can win states like Virginia and Colorado with less than 50 percent of the vote, with an assist from Goode and Johnson.
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Obama is looking for Perot. The people voting for Goode and Johnson are probably not people who would ever vote for Romney, even if it means another four years of Obama, and it might, especially if there aren’t enough conservatives and libertarians to overcome the dead vote. I figure Johnson is going to vote for Obama, and Goode doesn’t know who he is going to vote for, but until that time, they can represent something, whatever it is.
Run, Ralph, Run!
You saved us in 2000, you can do it again in 2012.
He’s dead meat politically, and he knows it. The media may lie to us, but you can bet he’s getting the straight scoop.
I may not like Romney, but watching Obama get Cartered on Inauguration Day is going to be sweet.
Then on to other problems...
The Democrat convention boost, is going to be something like a dead cat bounce. That ought to give Obama a fur-ball.
Well, given some of the attitudes here, slipping a few millions to the Constitution Party, Libertarians, etc., might be a good move, esp. if you could target it on the battleground states.
Yep. I’m sure our very own spamming posse will be right along soon to agree with obowelmovement. No wait. They’re too busy spamming the Romney (and many non-romney) threads.
Bill Clinton has been hauled out of the cold to become an important player in the convention. Could it be that Hillary will be called in as VP?
Nothing says “Dem win” like a Clintonian plurality.
Having said that, these two fringe candidates are completely unknown to a very high percentage of voters.
John Anderson and Perot were widely known and had a lot of campaign money.
Conservatives can play “hope there’s a third party to dilute their vote”, too.
Go Big Green! Go Jill Stein! (She won’t steal too many votes from the GOP, I betcha).
That only works if any or all of those candidates gets enough votes to make a difference.
I was wondering about that too.
This time around, a 3rd party isn’t going to be much help, because none of the 3rd party candidates have much money or charisma.
I have seen pictures of Hillary recently. They look as if she is taking better care of herself.
When did you stop beating your live-in boyfriend ~
With Virgil Goode throwing in with the Greens and making his campaign platform wasting huge amounts of money on “high speed rail” in Virginia I’m not sure he will help Obama there either. That’s not exactly a conservative platform and given their failure in places they have been tried it doesn’t indicate a platform of common sense or fiscal responsiblity...with debt and wasteful spending being big issues in this campaign, he certainly is not qualified to tackle them by making his commitment to wasteful spending such a huge campaign issue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTJamrDkjN0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQG4qCSP3xI
On the same channel you will find videos supportive of Medea Benjamin and Code Pink.
There are, of course, other places you can play and kvetch about your betters ~ go to DU ~ there you'll find your kind of love.
Why are you thinking such things about others?
He's bad on all the issues the Democrats' candidate is bad on. So, there's no reason to vote for him either ~ and he won't tell us what it is he has in mind ~ just the same old vague 'hope and change' baloney we've all come to distrust.
The fact you can't see how bad the GOP-e candidate really is isn't my fault. It's yours.
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