MOVED TO USA 2012 Third Party Rolling Update + RECAP
2011-12-23 Mini-Me: Ron Paul is SCARY — Let’s All Gang Up and SMASH Him So He’s Not a Threat to Our Scam
2011-12-23 16% Likely To Support Ron Paul Third Party Bid
2011-12-23 Oh Wait!: I'm Not a Republican [Donald Trump Eyes Americans Elect]
2011-12-23 Ask the Campaign Doc: A third-party bid in 2012?
2011-12-23 We asked you: Would you support a third-party candidate for president?
YES 51% . NO 49%
Party should be irrelevant
When we look at candidates for president, the important issue should be what are the core values of this candidate, and what is this candidate's vision for all Americans. We must look at the person, not the party.
2011-12-23 Independents on the Rise as Voters Leave Major Parties
Party affiliation may be losing its appeal.
More and more voters are registering as independents while the number of Democratic and Republican voters declines, according to a new study by USA Today .
The analysis found that since the 2008 elections, more than 2.5 million voters left both the major parties. Democrats lost the bulk of that, with 1.7 million people leaving the party since 2008.
2011-12-22 Trump Insists Third-Party Candidate Can Beat Obama
2011-12-22 Potential third-party candidates face uphill battle to win, but they could be game-changers
2011-12-21 A third party candidate to replace Obama?
2011-12-21 A third-party Ron Paul: Mitt Romney’s general election nightmare?
2011-12-21 Ron Paul Denies Interest in Third Party Run
2011-12-21 Americans Elect: Can a Well-Heeled Group of Insiders Create a Populist Third-Party Sensation?
2011-12-20 Gary Johnson to drop out of GOP primary to run as Libertarian
PPP found Johnson would draw between 26 and 30 percent of GOP votes, between 12 and 16 percent of Democratic votes and win independents, in a race with either Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich as the GOP nominee.
2011-12-20 Poll: Paul as third party candidate could doom GOP in 2012
2011-12-20 Americans Elect wins third-party spot on California ballot
2011-12-20 Campaign 2012: Bring on the third party, er, parties
2011-12-20 Mini-Me: More on Americans Elect Fraud Machine…
2011-12-19 Sen. McCain predicts rise of a third political party in 2012 elections
McCain also warned from the Senate floor that in the next election incumbents from both parties would be in electoral danger. “I believe that for long enough we have done this, for long enough the American people, who are now in a more dire state then they have been since the Great Depression, are fed up with spending,” said McCain. “I say to all my colleagues … I think in the next election no incumbent is safe.”
2011-12-19 Third-party group on Calif. ballot?
2011-12-19 Ron Paul's Iowa surge triggers GOP anger at his supporters (VIDEO)
2011-12-19 Irregular Times on Americans Elect Fraud
2011-12-18 How to guarantee Ron Paul won't run third party
Public Policy Polling tweeted yesterday that, “Paul performs the best of the Republicans against Obama among independents on almost every poll we ever do.” Independents are known to determine close elections; and Paul has a clear edge here over his Republican rivals.
2011-12-18 Third party might be just an illusion
2011-12-17 Richard Winger: US Ballot Access & Americans Elect
2011-12-17 Outrageous Predictions: 2012 – The Perfect Storm
3 – A YET UNANNOUNCED CANDIDATE TAKES THE WHITE HOUSE
In 1992, a savvy, yet highly erratic Texas billionaire named Ross Perot managed to take advantage of a recessionary economy and popular disgust with US politics and reap 18.9 percent of the popular vote. Step forward to 2008, and Obama promises “real change” from eight years of Republican rule as the economy is nose-diving. Now, three years of Obama has brought too little change and only additional widespread disillusionment with the entire US political system. Going into the election in 2012, the incumbent Democrats are in ideological disarray and will get the blame for continued economic malaise and the favour-the-rich Republicans will never win the popular vote with the US rich/poor gap at a record width and social tension rising. In short, conditions for a third party candidate have never been riper. Someone smart enough to sense this and with a strong programme for real change throws his hat in the ring early in 2012 and snatches the presidency in November in one of the most pivotal elections in US history, taking 38 percent of the popular vote. A new political order is born.
2011-12-17 Group Clears Path for a Third-Party Ticket
2011-12-16 Americans Elect: Good for Obama, Bad for America
2011-12-16 A third-party candidate in 2012? It's going to happen, pollster says. (VIDEO)
2011-12-16 Ron Paul: I ‘Cannot Conceive' of Third-Party Run
2011-12-15 Louisiana’s former governor to run as a Third Party presidential candidate [announces plans to seek Americans Elect option]
2011-12-14 Justice Party Will Challenge Dems, GOP in 2012 Elections
2011-12-13 A third major party? Most Americans say it's needed
2011-12-13 Lieberman Pushes Third Party for President Rules Out Running Himself
2011-12-12 Huntsman rules out third-party bid
2011-12-12 Place for third-party candidates is Congress
2011-12-12 Glenn Beck: I’d Vote For A Ron Paul Third Party Candidacy Over Newt Gingrich
2011-12-09 Third-Party Candidates and Lip Tattoos
WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, ROSS PEROT?
Is there an opening for a third-party candidate? No and yes. With fewer Americans feeling the need to hurl themselves into party politics, it’s hard to imagine much interest in creating a new one. But there’s almost certainly a market for an independent candidate — perhaps a rich, Ross Perot type (minus the weirdness) who embodies reform and rejects party fealty. Sounds like Bloomberg, but he has his hands full.
2011-12-07 Fertile Ground for 3rd Party Candidate Like Paul
2011-12-05 Trump: I might make third party run for president [dismisses Paul & Huntsman]
2011-12-03 Drop the Fantasy of a Third-Party Candidate Winning in 2012 [Electoral College]
2011-12-02 Christine Todd Whitman to Jon Huntsman: Run third party–he won't rule it out
2011-11-29 Buddy Roemer Hinting at Third-Party Bid?
2011-11-25 Gary Johnson threatens third-party 2012 run
2011-11-22 As GOP candidates rise and fall, talk grows of a third party candidate [Tea Party hates Romney]
2011-11-21 The False Promise of a Third-Party Candidacy
Past Third Party Posts at Phi Beta Iota (Alphabetical Order)
Event: 30 Oct Restoring Sanity Rally with Jon Stewart, Keep Fear Alive Rally with Stephen Colbert
Event Report: Not Invited to the Party (Cato)
John Robb: Economic Reality & Political Treason
John Steiner: A Nation of Populists and Class Warriors
John Steiner: Declaration of Occupation of NYC + Revolution USA RECAP
John Steiner: The Political Racketeers
Journal: Demopublicans–NO DIFFERENCE
Journal: Huffington Post–Congress is Corrupt
Journal: Potential End to Two-Party Monopoly
Journal: Third Party Desired by 58% in America + ReCap
Journal: Vermont Commons, Secession, & Collapse
Onset of Death for the Two-Party Tyranny….
Reference: Best Piece on Democracy in a Decade
Reference: Electoral Reform Act & Third Party Politics
Reference: How Voters Can UNRIG the Two-Party Shell Game
Reference: Our Choice–Changing the Game
Reference: Third Party Bubble & Possibilities, RECAP
Retrospective: Jackie Salit Nails Two Parties in 2010
Review (Guest): American Nations – A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
Review: Blue Collar Ministry–Facing Economic and Social Realities of Working People
Review: Blue Grit–Making Impossible, Improbable, and Inspirational Political Change in America
Review: Declaring Independence–The Beginning of the End of the Two-Party System
Review: Give Me Liberty–A Handbook for American Revolutionaries
Review: Grand Illusion–The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny
Review: Is Democracy Possible Here?: Principles for a New Political Debate
Review: Leave Us Alone–Getting the Government’s Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives
Review: Shooting the Truth–The Rise of American Political Documentaries
Review: Spoiling for a Fight–Third-Party Politics in America
Review: The Price of Liberty–Paying for America’s Wars
Review: The Populist Moment–A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America
Review: Waging Peace–The Art of War for the Antiwar Movement
Search: cost of corruption + Corruption RECAP
US Goverment 2011 Revenue, Costs, & Debt–Two Party Tyranny Lies Straight Up, Media Goes Along
Worth a Look: Nader 2000 campaign manager publishes article on discriminatory ballot access laws