Calling For a Straw Man Candidate to Enter the Presidential Race
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I've never been a big fan of third-party candidates running for president. I tend to believe that if voters are unhappy with both major parties, there's a productive way to change that. They can work to bring the party they're ideologically closest to over to their way of thinking. The Tea Party, for example, did this successfully in 2010 by electing fiscally conservative candidates into office. The result was the Republican take-over of the House of Representatives. The other alternative, of course, is to vote for a Ross Perot, a Ralph Nader, or a Gary Johnson out of pure principal. The problem with that, however, is that the vote gets split between common ideologies and the benefactor ends up being the candidate most feared by the voters who supported the third-party candidate.
Calling For a Straw Man Candidate to Enter the Presidential Race
Calling For a Straw Man Candidate to Enter…
Calling For a Straw Man Candidate to Enter the Presidential Race
I've never been a big fan of third-party candidates running for president. I tend to believe that if voters are unhappy with both major parties, there's a productive way to change that. They can work to bring the party they're ideologically closest to over to their way of thinking. The Tea Party, for example, did this successfully in 2010 by electing fiscally conservative candidates into office. The result was the Republican take-over of the House of Representatives. The other alternative, of course, is to vote for a Ross Perot, a Ralph Nader, or a Gary Johnson out of pure principal. The problem with that, however, is that the vote gets split between common ideologies and the benefactor ends up being the candidate most feared by the voters who supported the third-party candidate.