FYI In a election was 1992. Ross Perot got 18.9 % of the total votes (Almost 1 in 5 voters). Yet he did not win a state (Most State give all their Electoral votes to the winner) and therefore got ZERO Electoral votes. He was polling close to 33% in the summer 1992, if that held up he might have won some of Bush ’41 states. Since Bush lost anyways, that would not have change the result of the election. If by some chance he won in this case 101 Electoral votes from Clinton and prevented Clinton from getting 270. The Democratic Congress would have given the Presidency to Clinton which is the same result.
In 1968, third party candidate was George Wallace and he got 12.9 % of the total vote (1 in 8 voters) and won many southern states for a total of 46 Electoral votes. That 17% of the 270 Electoral votes needed to become President. In this case the southern states, were strongly Democratic and therefore Wallace prevented Humphrey from having a chance to defeat Nixon, and Nixon became President. Once again if Wallace had won 32 Electoral votes from Nixon, preventing him from getting 270 Electoral votes, then the Democrat Congress would have made Humphrey not Nixon President. This is a different result, but still the third party candidate is defeated and a Democratic or Republican candidate wins the Presidency. Under our current Presidential system without majority support in congress and a total collapse of one of the other parties, a third party candidate cannot become President. We can talk of changing the Constitution, but again it will take at least ten years to happen.
In support of your point here the hard fact about third party Presidencial Candidates.
If the election of 2000 shows us anything, it is the fact that the Presidential candidate needs 270 Electoral votes to become President. The last time a third party candidate ran well, in a election was 1992. Ross Perot got 18.9 % of the total votes (Almost 1 in 5 voters). Yet he did not win a state (Most State give all their Electoral votes to the winner) and therefore got ZERO Electoral votes. He was polling close to 33% in the summer 1992, if that held up he might have won some of Bush ’41 states. Since Bush lost anyways, that would not have change the result of the election. If by some chance he won in this case 101 Electoral votes from Clinton and prevented Clinton from getting 270. The Democratic Congress would have given the Presidency to Clinton which is the same result.
1.We are not citizens of the world. We are citizens of the United States. Simply put, a chant USA, USA, USA.
2.As a follow-up to that point. We were at our greatest strength, when we were not part of the United Nations. We should leave that organization. It is a failure just like the League of Nations before it. This is the most radical thing I believe in. We are not the police force of the world.
3.The United States is the greatest country ever created. No country created before 1776 or since has been better at individual freedom, national defense, economically richer and more intellectually creative. Failure by us citizens of the United States not to understand this and believe this in our hearts and minds will then see a disaster come to this nation for all of us, our children and the future of this world. The world may not agree with this belief, but it is the historically true. We can lose all this greatness in a single decade, if we don’t protect legacy of this fragile gift of our Founding Fathers.
4.We need to remember and learn from our other legacy. That legacy is the spirit of our explorers, our pioneers, and our settlers. These people did not rely on the rest of the world for oil, food or money to prosper. They built this great nation on their own with the occasional help of their neighbors. That is the true definition of a citizen of the United States.
5.We need to STOP being Republicans, Democrats, and maybe Independent & Libertarians as well. We should always try to be independent of all political parties. We need to stop fighting with each other and become one nation of citizens of the United States of America. Think of the veterans of the Civil War that lived to see the end of the war. These people represented a division in our country that truly resulted in them shooting and killing each other. These old, some very old by then, veterans of that war came back to Gettysburg and re-enacted ‘Picket’s Charge’ on the fifth anniversary of that battle. Just as the charge was in progress by the surviving Confederate soldiers, their Union counterpart came out from their defensive positions and embraces their ‘attacking’ former foes. That is the true story of what made us a great country. Those old Confederates and Union veterans realized that in the end they were just citizens of these United States, and nothing more.
Abraham Lincoln, who would not live to see these men so unified fifty year later said at the start of his Presidency and that Civil War ‘We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.’ We Republicans, Democrats, Independent & Libertarians, must always be just citizens of the United States, and nothing more.
But still with no clue how to be President yet. A childlike view of the world (Mideast / North Korea/Europe and Israel ) and how big governments and economies work. But conceited enought to believe that he can run the biggest business in the world (GM the new Amtrack)
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