<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Without doing this, what incentive does Obama (or the next Democratic candidate for President) have to include your pet issue in his or her platform? There is a real danger to the two-party system that is becoming clearer and clearer every year.<br><br>Sometimes when you want to make an omelet you have to crack a few eggs.<br><br>Paul<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Paul Rumelhart <godshatter@yahoo.com> <br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Moscow Vision2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, October 22, 2012 1:24 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] third party power<br> </font> </div> <br><meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="off"><div id="yiv1772197543"><div><div>And a somewhat liberal third party candidate would attract votes that would otherwise be cast for Obama, ultimately making the election, and a tenancy at 1600 Pennsylvania, attainable for Mitt Romney.</div><div><br></div><div>No thanks!</div><div><br><div>Seeya at the polls, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.moscowcares.com/">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"We're a town of about 23,000
with 10,000 college students. The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."</div><div><br></div><div>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div><div><br>On Oct 22, 2012, at 1:05 PM, Paul Rumelhart <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">godshatter@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;">I just thought of a way third parties could have a larger say in what is going on in the political scene.<br><br>If the leadership of one of the third parties (let's pick on the Green Party) thought that their issues weren't being taken seriously by the Democratic Party (such as Global Warming), then if they had fortitude they could reach out to all the Dems that are
environmentalists at heart but vote Dem anyway and suggest that they all vote Green Party. Basically, they would be saying "let's throw this election in order to get ourselves taken seriously. If the Dems want us back, they have to make our pet issue one of their main focuses."<br><br>This way, they can make use of the tendency of "first past the post" election systems to become predominantly two-party systems to their advantage. They would have to
reach out to enough of the Dems to cause the election to be lost. They would have to be willing to throw the occasional election to be taken seriously, though. Long-term vs. short-term thinking.<br><br>Of course, the Libertarian Party could do the same thing, focusing on civil liberties for example. You get the idea.<br><br>Paul<br><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>=======================================================</span><br><span> List services made available by First Step Internet,</span><br><span> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.</span><br><span> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.fsr.net/">http://www.fsr.net</a></span><br><span> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank"
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