Given the left has control of the media and the schools, it may end up being a one party system. We have to break their hold on the schools.
Maybe it is perception, but a lot of time as in this case perception is reality....... Down the long road maybe it will be different
Name | Electoral Vote |
Popular Vote |
Party(ies) | Ballot Access (printed / write-in) |
Possible Electoral Vote |
||
David Harold Birchler | 8 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 1 | 12 | ||
Cathy Gordon Brown | 1,606 | 0.00% | Independent | 1 / 0 | 11 | ||
Mike K. Brown | 1 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 1 | 10 | ||
Harry Browne | 386,035 | 0.37% | Libertarian, Independent |
50 / 0 | 530 | ||
Pat Buchanan | 448,868 | 0.43% | Reform, Independent, Freedom, "By Petition", Citizens First, Independence, Right-to-Life, "Write-In" |
49 / 1 | 535 | ||
Governor George W. Bush | 271 | 50,456,141 | 47.87% | Republican, Conservative |
51 / 0 | 538 | |
Clifford Catton | 0 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 1 | 33 | ||
May Chote | 34 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 1 | 25 | ||
Alonzo Crawford | 2 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 1 | 10 | ||
Earl F. Dodge | 208 | 0.00% | Prohibition | 1 / 0 | 8 | ||
Earnest Lee Easton | 6 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 4 | 32 | ||
Vice President Albert A. "Al" Gore, Jr. | 266 | 50,996,039 | 48.38% | Democrat, Liberal, Working Families |
51 / 0 | 538 | |
John Hagelin | 83,555 | 0.08% | Natural Law, Independent, Reform, Independence, "unenrolled", "Write-In" |
38 / 3 | 421 | ||
James E. Harris, Jr. | 7,378 | 0.01% | Socialist Workers, Socialist, Independent, "Write-In" |
14 / 3 | 193 | ||
Keith Sherman Huber | 3 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 1 | 8 | ||
Keith Russell Judd | 15 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 1 | 12 | ||
Keith Lewis Kunzler | 1 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 1 | 5 | ||
Forrest C. LaBelle | 1 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 2 | 15 | ||
Denny Lane | 1,044 | 0.00% | Vermont Grassroots | 1 / 0 | 3 | ||
Bernard Marcus | 17 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 1 | 10 | ||
Isabell Masters | 0 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 1 | 10 | ||
Ken C. McCarthy | 6 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 1 | 25 | ||
David McReynolds | 7,746 | 0.01% | Socialist, Liberty Union, "Write-In" |
7 / 7 | 252 | ||
Rachelle OneFamily Miller | 3 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 1 | 10 | ||
Beatrice J Mooney | 7 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 1 | 10 | ||
Monica Moorehead | 4,795 | 0.00% | Workers World | 4 / 0 | 51 | ||
Ralph Nader | 2,878,157 | 2.73% | Green, Independent, United Citizens, "Write-In" |
44 / 3 | 510 | ||
NONE OF THESE CANDIDATES | 3,315 | 0.00% | "unenrolled" | 1 / 0 | 4 | ||
Raj Alison Officewala | 3 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 1 | 10 | ||
Daniel J. Pearlman | 1 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 3 | 48 | ||
Jeffrey Peters | 2 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 1 | 10 | ||
Sylvester J. Pettway | 1 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 2 | 18 | ||
Howard Phillips | 98,016 | 0.09% | Constitution, Independent American, American Independent, Independent, American Constitution, Concerned Citizens, United States Taxpayers, "Write-In", "By Petition" |
41 / 6 | 501 | ||
David Reicher | 4 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 1 | 8 | ||
Joe Schriner | 27 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 3 | 27 | ||
Michael Skos | 0 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 1 | 33 | ||
L. Neil Smith | 5,775 | 0.01% | Libertarian | 1 / 0 | 8 | ||
Michael F. Sterba | 0 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 1 | 10 | ||
Gloria Dawn Strickland | 12 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 7 | 83 | ||
Randall Venson | 535 | 0.00% | Independent | 1 / 0 | 11 | ||
James "Jim" Wright | 74 | 0.00% | "Write-In" | 0 / 1 | 32 | ||
Louie G. Youngkeit | 161 | 0.00% | Independent | 1 / 0 | 5 | ||
Write-ins Write-in Votes Write-In Candidates OTHER VOTES Other Write-ins All others Write-Ins Write Ins Scattering scattering Miscellaneous Write-in votes |
19,986 | 0.02% | (scatter) | ||||
Totals | 537 | 105,399,588 | 538 |
No, what is keeping third parties from gaining any headway is a combination of needing enormous amounts of money and the fact that neither major party will give up its stranglehold on the 2-party system. Third parties are prevented from taking part in debates, and even if they rise above that obstacle, big dollars and carefully contrived "rules" keep them off the ballots. It shouldn't be that way, but it is. I don't know the answer.
Maybe you can discuss that next Sunday or at least at the FReeper meeting the following Saturday. I look forward to meeting you.