Posted on 07/06/2012 6:08:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Voter dissatisfaction or not, there is very little support this year for third party presidential candidates.
In a Gallup Poll released Friday that includes three minor-party candidates, Barack Obama received 47 percent support, Mitt Romney 40, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson 3, Green candidate Jill Stein 1 and Constitution Party candidate Virgil Goode less than 1.
Two percent of voters said they favor U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), 1 percent mentioned someone else, 2 percent had no opinion and 5 percent said they will not vote.
Voter dissatisfaction or not, there is very little support this year for third party presidential candidates.
In a Gallup Poll released Friday that includes three minor-party candidates, Barack Obama received 47 percent support, Mitt Romney 40, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson 3, Green candidate Jill Stein 1 and Constitution Party candidate Virgil Goode less than 1.
Two percent of voters said they favor U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), 1 percent mentioned someone else, 2 percent had no opinion and 5 percent said they will not vote.
If that is bad news for minor-party candidates, it will get worse for them as the campaign continues, if historical trends continue...
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
...Is it already too late?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2903719/posts
Considering the combined third-party vote in 2008 was less than 1.5%, third-party candidates seem to set to have a greater impact in this race.
Romney is doing considerably worse against Obama when the third-party candidates are figured in. Too bad for the Romneybots.
Was it pretty hot in Chicago today? Humid? Do you guys still get Uno pizza delivered for free?
I do. Eight years of Romney and another Democrat is worse than four more years of Obama.
Obama's reelection will result in growing Republican majorities in Congress and that state level; Romney's election will result in Democrats taking back Congress and the White House.
Neither. I neither support Obamacare nor Romneycare. I oppose debts whether created by Obama or by Romney.
Your crystal ball is far clearer than mine.:)
I can only see what The Won is doing NOW..and fear what he will do in an unfettered 2nd term.
I am not happy with Romney, but these are not normal times.
Romney will sellout conservatives. Republicans, as result, will lose control of Congress, losing all the gains made in 2010. And, another Democrat will be elected President in 2016. And, the Democrats will inflict as much damage to country in 2017 as they did in 2009.
The country continues to move to the left with YOUR VOTE. You don't advance conservatism by voting for liberals. Liberal Republicans advance liberalism.
Charlie. Lucy. And, the football. You're Charlie Brown.
Romney will sellout conservatives. Republicans, as result, will lose control of Congress, losing all the gains made in 2010. And, another Democrat will be elected President in 2016. And, the Democrats will inflict as much damage to country in 2017 as they did in 2009.
The country continues to move to the left with YOUR VOTE. You don't advance conservatism by voting for liberals. Liberal Republicans advance liberalism.
Charlie Brown. Lucy. And, the football. You're Charlie Brown.
Bingo! This is exactly what others need to understand. Romney's win will strengthen the RINO hold on the GOP. It would be okay if Romney loses with the Congress and Senate going the GOP way with a lot of Tea Party members in them.
You must be lousy chess player, unable to see more than a couple moves ahead.
If you don't think someone more liberal and dishonest than George W. Bush isn't going to do more damage to the nation and the Republican party than Bush did, you're fooling yourself.
But I am fairly agressive. I look at what is happening. Obama don't need no steenking Congress or Constitution. He will rule by EO. No problem, he is the King. He will be even more heavy handed in a second term. We won't survive it.
We need to take the Senate and keep the House with good conservatives. I see that as a possibility.
If we have the opportunity to take O’s queen and put him in checkmate, albeit with a weak rook, I really don't see the purpose in prolonging the game and allowing him to run the board.
Blah,blah,blah. Why were you assigned to this site? Was your dad some kind of unreconstructed George Wallace or John Birch type and you volunteered since you know how them “teabaggers’ think?
If the favorites today were to be nominated, the Democrats would be running a Communist, and the Republicans would be running a Socialist.
Hence, after Romney loses to Obama by 10 %, it will be time for us to take over the Republican Party and run our candidates in 2014 and 2016.
How are we going to take the country back when our supposed allies are making it thoroughly impossible ? A Willard victory would be the worst sort of Pyrrhic victory, and we already know about his awful record in office, making anyone believing he would do anything to change course either a pig ignorant fool or a willful liar.
Didn’t W also appoint Alito?
And didn’t Reagan appoint the wishy washy O’Connor?
Don’t get me wrong...what Roberts did still boggles my mind.
The answer is electing NEITHER Zero nor Willard. Forcing me or anyone else to choose from those two abominations is like asking which side of the head I’d prefer to be shot.
Unfortunately, there is no “Door #3” in this game show.
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