Tag: Elections
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Why the Green Party Isn’t the Problem
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Let’s start off with the original sin of the Green Party. They cost Gore the election in Florida with their 97,000+ votes. With a margin of losing by 543 votes, surely of those 97,000 + at least 544 could have ‘seen the light’ and voted the way they were ‘suppose’ to vote. So do we…
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Democrats Should Abandon the Third-Party “Spoiler” Argument
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We know, of course, that they wont!
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St. Louis Mayor’s Race Underscores Pitfalls of Plurality Elections
On March 7, 2017 Lyda Krewson won the Democratic Party nomination for mayor of St. Louis City with only 32.0% of the vote. Ms. Krewson is white. Six black candidates split over two-thirds of the votes. The problem goes beyond color. One of the hot-button issues has been the New Life homeless shelter, called a…
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It Didn’t End With the Cold War
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The recent controversy over claims of Russian hacking of the DNC during the 2016 presidential elections overlook the fact that the US government has been interfering in elections throughout the world for decades.