Posted on 10/01/2011 10:57:57 PM PDT by Watchdog85
More than 40 percent of Americans believe that both Republican and Democrat policies are moving the country in the wrong direction, while Tea Party approval has sunk to the mid-20s. Despite widespread dissatisfaction with President Obama, even Republicans acknowledge the weakness of their 2012 field — giving rise to persistent fantasies about a Chris Christie candidacy. In reaction to D.C.'s division and dysfunction, a record number of Americans now identify as independent voters while a majority says it's time for a third party.
We are a country that innovates its way out of problems. And there is an innovative alternative emerging. It's called Americans Elect and it promises to hold an open online presidential nomination contest in June of 2012 and then put a bipartisan presidential ticket on the ballot in all 50 states. It's so crazy, it just might work.
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Here is some more info on Soro’s possible connection to this group.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2785812/posts
Nice try. The political equivalent of the XFL (remember them?).
Sure, ol’ Georgy can buy himself a political party, apparatus, candidates and all, but even he can’t buy voters.
Political parties have to build from the ground up.
It's called Americans Elect and it promises to hold an open online presidential nomination contest in June of 2012 and then put a BIPARTISIAN presidential ticket on the ballot in all 50 states.
Not any real people, no. It's just media hype, fueled by the chattering morons on cable.
No. but I do fantasize about Georgy Schwartz (Soros) Funeral. He’s really worse that Al Qaeda!
It’s obviously yet another Soros front. Made even more obvious by the fact that The Daily Beast is pimping it. TDB led the Soros counter-attack on Beck after his November, 2010 special on Soros.
The old man is like liquid evil, seeping through the cracks of everything, everywhere.
I don’t particularly like any of the candidates, but I would not characterize them as weak. It is a very strong field. Many differences, some excellent, some mediocre, a couple of progressive Republicans....
I don’t think this is Soros.
There was something almost identical like this going on in 2007-08, called Unity08. Sam Waterston was their celebrity spokesman, and they had almost the exact same plan - an online primary choosing either a bipartisan ticket or a ticket with an independent.
At the time, I believed it to be a vehicle for Bloomberg, and the group’s founders did in fact ultimately leave the group to start a Draft Bloomberg campaign.
Many of the same players are involved in Americans Elect, and evidently it shared a business address with Unity08 for a time - which itself shared an address with Draft Bloomberg ‘08.
I suspect this is Bloomberg’s toe in the water for 2012, just as Unity08 was in the last election. He wants to test the country’s appetite for a centrist third-party candidate and to explore the feasibility of getting his name on the ballot in all 50 states should he decide to run.
Anne coulter
The LSM manufactures bull turd polls and then cites them as news. I don’t believe the Tea Party is less popular than Bush 43 at his lowest point. Avlon is a notorious smear merchant.
I thot he was al-Qaeda
Who the heck is Soro?
Any other citizen would be allowed to petition to put their name forward, providing they could accumulate at least 100,000 on-line support clicks — including a minimum of 10,000 supporters from 10 states — to determine broad-based support.
To me, this sounds like a union bit all the way. They are very adept at these signature campaigns (like Wisconsin). They can hand-pick and push their (union) candidate without wasting resources on primaries and debates and such. It is an effort by a group that is used to “organizing”. That’s what I see here. I could be wrong but this was my first thought.
All the more reason why we really REALLY need Sarah Palin to jump in.
A quasi-conservative third party effort would slaughter our chances of getting that bum out of the White House. It would split the conservative vote in half (anybody remember Ross Perot?) and give Obummer a free ride. That must not happen.
Sarah Palin has the cachet and name-recognition to blow both major-party nominees (whomever they might be) out of the water once she enters the race.
Trumka had been making noises about unions dumping the democrats earlier and going their own way, could this be what he was referring to, I wonder?
That must be why it rang a bell! Good catch.
There’s no way Baraq can win a 2-way matchup.
One way or another they have to make it a 3-way race where Baraq’s 40% support can give him a Clintonian plurality win.
If Palin runs as a 3rd party candidate, her results will be very similar to Perot 1992.
The election results will be:
Obama 45%
Republican 35%
Palin 20%
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