Sunday, July 24, 2011

Third Party Hope?

Make Way for the Radical Center - NYTimes.com: "...Thanks to a quiet political start-up that is now ready to show its hand, a viable, centrist, third presidential ticket, elected by an Internet convention, is going to emerge in 2012. I know it sounds gimmicky — an Internet convention — but an impressive group of frustrated Democrats, Republicans and independents, called Americans Elect, is really serious, and they have thought out this process well. In a few days, Americans Elect will formally submit the 1.6 million signatures it has gathered to get on the presidential ballot in California as part of its unfolding national effort to get on the ballots of all 50 states for 2012..."

And for another, more negative, take, look here.

2 comments:

billy pilgrim said...

sounds like a good idea to me. i like the idea of signing a pledge to never vote for fools that sign pledges.

Bob Harrison said...

I like the idea too-- but I don't trust the source of this effort. Anything to do with the Kochs reeks.