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...
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Right, four of years of a lame duck Democrat faced with growing conservative opposition in Congress is better than eight years of a liberal Republican or another Democrat with a shrinking minority of Republicans in Congress.
I'd love to see you tell why that isn't true.
It isn’t true because four more years of the current regime is not acceptable. Not in foreign policy or domestic policy. The primary goal of this election is the removal of this regime from power.
E.g., Obamacare is fait accompli unless action is taken by congress and signed by president. That isn’t going to happen if Obama is re-elected.
Now, again: why don’t you vote for Obama if his re-election is the better than Romney’s election in your opinion?
Goode news for Glove, Goode is not (as of today, I don’t think time is up yet) on the ballot in his critical home state of VA (only 17 states so far) the only state I could see him making a dent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012#Third_party_candidates
He is on TN ballot for you though DJ.
I agree. The Obamanation must go.
A Romney Presidency that moves the country to the left with the votes of conservatives and results in Democrats taking back Congress and in the election of someone as bad as Obama is what isn't acceptable. That sets the country back at least eight years rather than just four.
Now, again: why don’t you vote for Obama if his re-election is the better than Romney’s election in your opinion?
Again, unlike you, I don't vote for liberals of either party. Some of us don't think voting for liberals does anything but advance liberalism. We're funny that way.
You maintain the objective in this campaign is NOT electing Romney - rather than removing the Obama regime from power.
Between keeping Obama in power and electing Romney, you choose keeping the current regime.
>>”I don’t vote for liberals of either party..”
Sorry, you already lost the moral high ground in this one.
How old are you 12?
You are supporting an Obama 2nd term since every vote cast against Romney is one less Obama needs to win since his base of communists are not going to desert him.
It's very simple math, no third party candidate is going to get more than 1%, from the looks of things about half a dozen will get somewhere between 1/4% and 1/2%.
If you want Bambi for four more years, just vote for one of those irrelevant third parties and then continue to piss and moan and b*tch when Bambi wins again (it's what they really want to do anyway).
Somebody said Goode was polling 5% in Va, but another story had 20 people total showing up for one of his events.
Why don’t you tell JimRob your opinion of those who don’t worship Willard and his Socialist agenda, n00b.
Until the GOP wises up and dumps Zero’s paler twin from the ticket, I’ll be proud to cast a vote for Goode over the two evils.
I despise mittens, but I have utter hatred for Obama and he needs to go.
Big difference.
Millions more of people will be losing jobs if this monster is re-elected because businesses will simply not hire and will be closing down.
You ok w that chief?
I’ve known Willard for 18 years, I was up in MA for the end part of his Senate run. The man is one of the biggest frauds and liars I’ve ever come across, and he is utterly dangerous and cannot be trusted with ANY office, period. He was a f***ing disaster as Governor and fled the state to get away from the mess he left. He has absolutely zero qualifications and accomplishments to hold the Presidency. He loathes Conservatives and Conservatism. Whatever that comes out of his mouth in the way of promises are nothing but lies. He views people as suckers and rubes to be manipulated. In other words, there is next to nothing to distinguish him from the current occupant of the White House.
This ABO argument is mindless. You’ve got to have the RIGHT person for the job to replace the current occupant or nothing will be changed (and indeed, we stand an excellent chance of losing everything we have gained under Zero’s watch in the way of Congress, Governorships, et al). How precisely do you think replacing one fiasco with another is going to resolve our nation’s problems ? Willard doesn’t care if he destroys the GOP in his lust for power, it’s just revenge for his daddy being denied the Presidency in 1968. Are you OK with that, chief ?
Another obamabot troll. Obama or nothing, the thrill is running down his leg.
I have been vehement in saying we have to replacew Mitt at the convention. replace him with a real conservative and start shopping now. I oppose Mitt for three reasons: 1).He is liberal. 2). If he is not liberal, he is willing to change his views for convenience and that is just as bad, 3). Obama has been preparing for him since 2008 and they have a load of ammo. The great Bear Bryan used to say that when you pass the ball, three things can happen and two of those are bad. (Incomplete and Interception). With Romney two things can happen:, 1). he wins, and 2). he loses. Both bad. If I have to hold my nose and vote for him, so be it, but I will feel a lot better if we put up a good fight at the convention with the possibility of coming out of it with a real conservative!!!!
The reverse is true, too, right? If Romney gets in and we have a repeat of the Bush Presidency or worse and end up losing Congress and White House again by 2016, you'll have no right to be piss, moan or bitch about Romney? You would have been warned about the consequences of putting a Republican with a liberal record and no principles in the White House.
Who are you talking to ?
Again, Mr. Chess Player, the objective is to position conservatism for victory in 2016, building a conservative majority in Congress, at the state level and putting someone like Scott Walker in the White House. That only path to victory in the next four years.
I saw an obviously biased pro-bama PPP poll showing Goode at 9% in VA (which is unrealistic, Bob Barr only got .73% in Georgia in 2008).
It doesn’t matter anyway if he’s not on the ballot.
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