Jackson50 on 07 October 2008
| theprof00 said: jackson, then vote for an independant. An independant has to receive a certain share of the votes before they are even allowed to debate at the NEXT election !!! |
A third-party candidate must receive 15% support in at least five national polls to be included in a debate. The original threshold was 10%, but the Republicans and Democrats had it raised after the Perot scare in 92. I have selected Barr the few times the pollsters have contacted me, so I am doing my part. I think they should include a different third-party candidate for each debate to enliven our national discourse. One debate would feature Nader, the second debate would feature McKinney, and the third would feature Barr. I know this is crude, but our national discourse has become stale. We need something to enliven it. We could also attempt Nader's idea, but the Republicrats would never allow it.
