To: Brilliant
"If the independents outnumber Dems and GOPers, then why don't they vote independent? Why are there few independent candidates?"
I answered that in #61. There's no need to run as an independent.
If you want to win, you join one of the two major parties so that you will have access to their resources. If you've got any shot at winning anyway, at least one of them, probably both, would let you in. The independent vote is what the parties are usually fighting over anyway, so either of them would be more than happy to adopt a popular independent candidate.
67 posted on
11/01/2006 8:11:52 AM PST by
Sofa King
(A wise man uses compromise as an alternative to defeat. A fool uses it as an alternative to victory.)
To: Sofa King
--If you want to win, you join one of the two major parties so that you will have access to their resources. If you've got any shot at winning anyway, at least one of them, probably both, would let you in. The independent vote is what the parties are usually fighting over anyway, so either of them would be more than happy to adopt a popular independent candidate--
Sure, and one the "independent" wins, then he is submerged into the bland banalities of the "demopublican" party, and loses the independent attributes that got him elected in the first place.
69 posted on
11/01/2006 8:13:59 AM PST by
ruffedgrouse
(Think outside the box, dammit!)
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