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Could 2024 be the year a third-party candidate finally breaks through?
The Hill ^ | 05/03/2023 | BERNARD GOLDBERG

Posted on 05/03/2023 7:22:45 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

What if we asked a highly sophisticated artificial intelligence program to analyze all Americans eligible to be president and come up with the names of everyone who has the characteristics required for someone in that important job — things like character, competence, integrity and common sense.

Raise your hand if you think the names “Joe Biden” or “Donald Trump” would show up in the top million names the AI program would spit out. Besides Biden, Trump and maybe members of their immediate families, I’m guessing not a lot of hands would go up.

But here we are. Almost nobody wants Joe Biden to run again, and yet he is running, and with only token opposition from within his party. And just about nobody outside the MAGA right wants Donald Trump to run again, either, and yet he’s (at least for now) light years ahead of his nearest likely opponent, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.).

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 2024; candidate; no; tds; thirdparty; year
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Ross Perot is gone so no
1 posted on 05/03/2023 7:22:45 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Dave Smith

Remember that name.


2 posted on 05/03/2023 7:24:06 AM PDT by nitzy (I wonder if the telescreens in 1984 were first called "free Obamascreens")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Not a ice cube’s chance in hell. All it will do is guarantee Uncle Joe serves until he dies.


3 posted on 05/03/2023 7:25:05 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Bernard Goldberg seems to have nothing to write about these days. Saying those things don’t cost anything. Would he bet his own money on it?


4 posted on 05/03/2023 7:27:15 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

You’re right. Biden will win. The steal goes on and little has been done to stop it.


5 posted on 05/03/2023 7:30:05 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Gee, I wonder where the term “third-party” came from? Oh yeah, THEY ALWAYS FINISH THIRD!


6 posted on 05/03/2023 7:32:08 AM PDT by goo goo g'joob (When honest people say what’s true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Like 1860, there will be four major parties, five if Trump runs from prison.


7 posted on 05/03/2023 7:33:29 AM PDT by Jim Noble (It is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Now the democrats are starting a third party not new.


8 posted on 05/03/2023 7:37:19 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Liberal ‘elites’ have zero trust or faith in citizens.

Goldberg needs to move to some totalitarian hellhole where ‘elites’ rule... I’m betting he voted for dementia Joe the ‘big guy’ who sold out his country to anyone willing to stuff cash in the pockets on any of his family members.

Why would any of us want to listen to what he has to say?


9 posted on 05/03/2023 7:39:48 AM PDT by GOPJ (John Adams said that “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.”)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Not very likely.

Only way I could see this happening this cycle is if RFK Jr or someone realized how corrupted the D system is and realizes he could win the primary, but won’t be allowed to.

However getting on the ballot in all 50 states is no trivial task... would need to start laying the groundwork for this now if they were going to try to do it.

Need a LOT of cash to try something like this, and I just don’t see it as likely to happen.


10 posted on 05/03/2023 7:48:22 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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If you vote for a third party candidate you throw away your vote and the guy you like the least will win instead.
Now, if AOC would run, she would be taking votes from Joe...
But the cheating could put her in office so that's not a good idea either.

11 posted on 05/03/2023 8:15:33 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m still amazed at how many FReepers here voted for Ross Perot, yet still refuse to acknowledge that they helped Clinton get elected.

Or if they do, they claim that Clinton was no better or worse than Bush. So there.


12 posted on 05/03/2023 8:22:49 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Donald Trump is a setting sun. Ron DeSantis is a rising star.)
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NO successful salesman or woman will EVER offer a choice of more than two.

You will never close a deal with a confusing number of options.

THAT'S why Washington grinds so slowly. . . . dems always throw in a bunch of amendments that have absolutely nothing to do with the bill.

13 posted on 05/03/2023 8:30:49 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

NO


14 posted on 05/03/2023 8:33:35 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What if we asked a highly sophisticated HARD-LEFTIST artificial intelligence program ...


15 posted on 05/03/2023 8:53:58 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: laplata

If you control the votes it doesn’t matter who is the candidate.


16 posted on 05/03/2023 10:38:27 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

>> All it will do is guarantee Uncle Joe serves until he dies.

Unless the third party candidate splits the ‘RAT vote...


17 posted on 05/03/2023 10:50:57 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: BitWielder1
If you vote for a third party candidate you throw away your vote and the guy you like the least will win instead.

I've been told, repeatedly, on this forum, that your argument is just typical "neocon, globalist, GOPe nonsense".

18 posted on 05/03/2023 10:54:53 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I voted for Ross Perot.
I admit I helped elect Clintoon.

Want another True Confession? In the primary run-up to 2008, McCain was on his way to the (R) nomination, so I crossed over and voted in the (D) primary AGAINST Her Heinous Hillary; I saw her evil as the end of America should she get elected. IIRC, Rush Limbaugh was suggesting this. Therefore I suppose you’d say I helped elect Obummer.

I learned my lesson on both bad votes, however. Never, never, NEVER again.


19 posted on 05/03/2023 10:57:49 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

For sure.


20 posted on 05/03/2023 10:59:52 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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