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Re: Obama XIII: It's all Bush's fault.
We almost had that in 2008 didn't we? McCain really wanted to pick Lieberman, but ended up with Palin.
That said, I'm skeptical as to the success a "Center Party" could have. What would be some of their positions on the issues?
Also, isn't there a chance that such a party could bring about some sort of Constitutional disaster? Say no one can get to 270 electoral votes, and it gets tossed to the House of Representatives, which I'm guessing won't have many (if any) members of the Center Party among it. Then say the House splits its vote along D-R party lines, and you could have this Center Party being totally shut out, despite maybe winning a plurality of the vote.
None of that is an argument against such a party I guess, just saying it could bring about some pretty crazy scenarios.
The optimist in me says the situation is crying out for a third party...the cynic says the two parties have so much money and so much to lose, they will fight with every low class, dirty politics tricks they have to prevent it...if money were no object it wouldn't be hard to make a ticket of two centrists (1 R and 1 D) and go after the center of the country (politically)
Throw out a few fringe issues on each side and you could get 60% of the populace to vote for the Center Party candidate...as long as they were good looking, were funny on Letterman, didn't scream on TV and didn't show up anywhere dressed in a costume or driving a tank. Those last few would actually be the biggest factors for being elected; the platform, integrity and leadership...yeah, that would be nice and all but let's not get crazy.![]()
We almost had that in 2008 didn't we? McCain really wanted to pick Lieberman, but ended up with Palin.
That said, I'm skeptical as to the success a "Center Party" could have. What would be some of their positions on the issues?
Also, isn't there a chance that such a party could bring about some sort of Constitutional disaster? Say no one can get to 270 electoral votes, and it gets tossed to the House of Representatives, which I'm guessing won't have many (if any) members of the Center Party among it. Then say the House splits its vote along D-R party lines, and you could have this Center Party being totally shut out, despite maybe winning a plurality of the vote.
None of that is an argument against such a party I guess, just saying it could bring about some pretty crazy scenarios.
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