Stein isn't a Republican. It doesn't matter how often you say it, it never becomes true. There's a difference between subtracting your vote for one side and adding a vote to the other side. What I'm doing is about half as damaging to the Democrats as it would be if I both removed my vote from Democrats AND added it to Republicans.
It is still damaging the ability to win your state. This is a two party governing system whether you want it to be or not. And voting third party in a general election does nothing to prove this. Significant third party voting in 92, 96, & 00 only damaged third party voting in the next few elections due to backlash against those who voted third party and it dropped drastically afterwards.
One of those states is not like any of the others
9/10 of the top 10 governers with highest approval are Republicans. Yikes.
Sort by highest approval only D is WV.
I notice Trump consistently overperforms in their polls, but that's it.
I have something better planned if I can figure out how to pull it off without making people mad.
Since they're new they've got no public track record so far that we can judge them on, although they did pick up some trends (e.g. Sanders getting within single digits of Clinton in NH) before anyone else. The owner is a Republican operative who also founded Paragon Insights polling that's been criticized for conducting less than transparent methedology, but Morning Consult at least regularly goes to the effort of releasing complete cross-tabs, unlike some oft-cited media polls, so I don't think they should be dismissed as Gravis/Zogby tier as of now.
I don't think I'll ever come back to the fold unless the Democrats run a real progressive - and that will only happen with pressure from the Left, say the union-based party we almost got in the 90s, Socialist Alternative, Socialist Equality Party, ISO, Green, etc. The only reason we got Roosevelt in the form we got him was due to pressure from the Socialist and Communist parties.
It would be nice to see Trump push the house closer to or into Democratic control...although then the pressure is on for the Dems to DO something with that majority. Obama wouldn't even put Public Option on the table.
Obama wouldn't advocate for it.
Democrat senators threatened to filibuster if he did. We would have never gotten Obamacare at all if he pushed for that. We would have got nothing.
Because he needed the senate on his side. Pissing off the swing Dem senators he needed on his side by pushing for it would have been suicide. Obamacare passed by the skin of its teeth.
Look up the recent history of Canadian elections and then think about how well your strategy works. It failed in Canada three times and gave them 10 years of shit that will probably take another few years to unravel. And the latest election is also not a guarantee of future elections; it's an endless fight.
I guess we'll never know because Obama refused to fight for it.
Roosevelt actively worked against a socialist candidate (Upton Sinclair for California Governor) even while actively appropriating many socialist ideas. That appropriation would not have come about if the Socialists weren't actively building strength and originating the damned ideas. Roosevelt was pulled to the left by a populace actively being offered socialist ideas and far left ideas. If there is no active left, there are no ideas for Roosevelt to appropriate.
This is exactly how it started. Except Hitler was more vociferous about Jews. His idea was also "Make duetchsland great again" after Germany was decimated after WW1.
I don't see any proof that the Socialists is what caused Roosevelt to be pulled left. What was left and what was right in the 1930s? What about the failures of Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover, leaving a deeply dissatisfied populace akin to Bush 2008? What were the main issues of the time? What were the main policies of Roosevelt's platform?
.Reporters are saying Christie might be back in the main stage. Huckabee on ice
Come on CNN, when the top four candidates = 60%, you gotta cut the fat, not make it easier for the losers to appear on stage.
