Ron Paul Break Record

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

and this is the sole reason why 3rd parties fail in the US //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

that, they lack of funding, and that no one wants to be in an orthogonal social group.

 

[iagrdshaka 5,000+ posts]

and this is the sole reason why 3rd parties fail in the US //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Well Hillary could sneak into office if enough people waste votes on 3rd parties. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/verymad.gif.3f39c5c2fd57527b671fad3efdfac756.gif

 

[newusername 10+ year member]

What sound so extreme about it?
It sounds about as extreme as the creation of the IRS...or the 16th amendment for that matter.

Undoing a bad idea is not always as extreme as one might think.

True that.

But Ron Paul has an outside shot, at best.

 

[ThomasG 5,000+ posts]

What sound so extreme about it?
It sounds about as extreme as the creation of the IRS...or the 16th amendment for that matter.

Undoing a bad idea is not always as extreme as one might think.

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[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

the "real" reason for the 2 party system is due to the winner take all single member district plurality type of elections we have. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[iagrdshaka 5,000+ posts]

That is a poor approach to take.

read my other post

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Well Hillary could sneak into office if enough people waste votes on 3rd parties. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/verymad.gif.3f39c5c2fd57527b671fad3efdfac756.gif

Or that third party would win the election.

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

Ok , we get rid of the IRS and pull all of our troops out of everywhere in the world. Sounds familiar, anyone remember Vietnam? From the reading I've done on it there were ppl hanging on to helicopter runners trying to get out

or maybe you guys know of a guy named Osama bin laden? Yea we trained him as many of you know and he got pissed off bc we abandoned him ... we do the same in iraq now and there will be a ton of new osamas... great ideas i tell ya

 

[iagrdshaka 5,000+ posts]

Or that third party would win the election.

Won't happen in my lifetime.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

the "real" reason for the 2 party system is due to the winner take all single member district plurality type of elections we have. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Jeff (werewolf on ECA) explained it better...

Say we did have 3 equal candidates:

And the votes was split

33,33,34

That would mean 66% of the people would be unhappy with the results of the election.

In our current system, at most 49% of the people are unhappy with the results.

However, his explanation does not account for the electoral college, where a candidate can have greater than 50% of the votes, yet still lose the election.

 

[terra 5,000+ posts]

who the F is ron paul?

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

This idiot

 

[ThomasG 5,000+ posts]

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Ok , we get rid of the IRS and pull all of our troops out of everywhere in the world. Sounds familiar, anyone remember Vietnam? From the reading I've done on it there were ppl hanging on to helicopter runners trying to get out
or maybe you guys know of a guy named Osama bin laden? Yea we trained him as many of you know and he got pissed off bc we abandoned him ... we do the same in iraq now and there will be a ton of new osamas... great ideas i tell ya

If we wouldn't fvck with affairs of others, we would not have trained OBL in the first place.

Furthermore, it doesn't appear that the extremist bombings have died down since our occupation. The fact that I still see American soldiers names on the night news doesn't seem to strengthen your position.

Won't happen in my lifetime.

Not if you don't believe it.

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

Jeff (werewolf on ECA) explained it better...
Say we did have 3 equal candidates:

And the votes was split

33,33,34

That would mean 66% of the people would be unhappy with the results of the election.

In our current system, at most 49% of the people are unhappy with the results.

However, his explanation does not account for the electoral college, where a candidate can have greater than 50% of the votes, yet still lose the election.

Your looking at it from the voters perspective, im looking at it from a party perspective.

read up on the economic theory of democracy, particularly about how 2 parties want to fight over as few ppl as possible and you will better see my point