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3rd Party Candidate Choice?

What 3rd party candidate would you vote for?

  • Gary Johnson (Libertarian Party)

    Votes: 11 57.9%
  • Jill Stein (Green Party)

    Votes: 6 31.6%
  • Virgil Goode (Constitution Party)

    Votes: 2 10.5%
  • Peta Lindsay (Party for Socialism and Liberation)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Tom Hoefling (Americas Party)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Stewart Alexander (Socialist Party USA)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Rocky Anderson (Justice Party)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Jim Carlson (Grassroots Party)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Tom Stevens (Objectivist Party)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    19

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Ok! So we hear all the time bitching about the two choices we have; Obama, and Romney. People often say they will vote for a 3rd party or a smaller party candidate if they had a chance. Well they do! But only in our little DP world election.
Who would you choose?
 
Ill start. Jill Stein has my vote.
 
There can't really be a third party choice. The Republican and Democratic parties may not agree on much but they did agree on passing laws and using lawsuits to make it virtually impossible for viable alternative parties to emerge and threaten their power.

In my dream world, I would pick a Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush ticket.
 
There can't really be a third party choice. The Republican and Democratic parties may not agree on much but they did agree on passing laws and using lawsuits to make it virtually impossible for viable alternative parties to emerge and threaten their power.

In my dream world, I would pick a Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush ticket.

Come on man. This is in a different world. This is in DP world!
 
Come on man. This is in a different world. This is in DP world!

In DP world I would be in prison for aggravated battery of half the members on this forum.

My vote would go to Gary Johnson. Dunno why, but I like him.
 
gary johnson would be my vote,maybe im just too constitutionalist for peoples standards,but the constitution had yet to fail anyone,just politicians who run around it to achieve a goal rather than amending it the way its supposed to be done.
 
There can't really be a third party choice. The Republican and Democratic parties may not agree on much but they did agree on passing laws and using lawsuits to make it virtually impossible for viable alternative parties to emerge and threaten their power.

In my dream world, I would pick a Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush ticket.

What can they sue them for? Running for President with a diffrent party and gaining alot of votes.
 
What can they sue them for? Running for President with a diffrent party and gaining alot of votes.

Research it a bit. You might be surprised how rigged our political system actually is.
 
I'll probably vote for Johnson. For some reason I have always liked him enough to pay attention to his career. I really don't know much about the Libertarian party. The very few declared Libertarians I've actually met in persoon seemed sweet and as crazy as loons. Their literature has like Uncle Sam cartoons, not trying hard for the intellectual vote I suppose. But, so what? I'm just bummed about the 2 choices and for once in my life I'm going to try and say so officially, with my vote.
 
None of the above. If I was going to break from the big two and throw my vote away on a 3rd party candidate, it would have to be a candidate and a party which I fundamentally agreed with on a majority of issues. No such 3rd party exists. Therefore, I would not vote for one.
 
I am a registered Green, so I'm sympathetic to the Green platform. I'm anti-Republican because they represent the Corporatocracy and I abhor that. I'm disgusted with Obama because of Libya and Syria, not prosecuting the torturers and liars, and bailing out the bankers instead of jailing the bankers. I don't think Jill Stein could accomplish anything because of Repub/Dem gridlock, but the message would be clear.
 
Ok! So we hear all the time bitching about the two choices we have; Obama, and Romney. People often say they will vote for a 3rd party or a smaller party candidate if they had a chance. Well they do! But only in our little DP world election.
Who would you choose?

I'm supporting Gary Johnson, good candidate, good platform, not a shill for the status quo.
 
Ill start. Jill Stein has my vote.

most of the quizzes I've taken line me up with her. one question, though : is she for cap and trade / energy taxes? I find this method of solving our energy crisis to be a poor one at this point, and I would have a hard time voting for it. it's simply too regressive, and there are better ways to solve the problem.
 
Out of the choices listed I am leaning towards Virgil Goode assuming his is not a etch a sketch.I do like his stand on many issues. According to isidewith.com it lists him as 77%, while Ron Paul is 82% and Romney is 83%. So if my state does not screw third party candidates this year then I will vote for Virgil Goode.If my state does screw third party candidates then I will simply leave that part of the ballot blank.
 
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I think my views are fairly compatible with Jill Stein's, but her priorities seem off to me, which seems normal from a Green candidate. I have no interest or compatibility with the other candidates, so third party is not an option for me.
 
Whichever candidate is closest to anarchy. I guess I'd be voting for anarchy! Oh the irony!
 
There are a fair number of posters here that will vote for Gary Johnson. I will be one of them. Im glad he decided to affiliate. He is a better candidate than Wayne Root, who would likely have been the nominee.
 
Since the Presidential election has no runoff, third parties should try to get only Senators and Representatives elected and have them propose a change in the Constitution to have Presidential runoffs or that automatic runoff where people would vote for both first and second choices. No more "A vote for Perot is a vote for Clinton" nonsense.
 
Since the Presidential election has no runoff, third parties should try to get only Senators and Representatives elected and have them propose a change in the Constitution to have Presidential runoffs or that automatic runoff where people would vote for both first and second choices. No more "A vote for Perot is a vote for Clinton" nonsense.
Third parties exist because reps and dems have so completely abandoned the country in the name of party. I have no illusions about a third party candidate winning the presidency. However...IF a significant number of people...20% of those that actually voted...were to vote for ANY candidate other than the two main parties it would serve to wake BOTH parties up a little bit. That will not happen. The majority of people that claim to be otheriwse oriented will go in ditufully and mark their ballot straight ticket for either GOP or Democrat. The '99% will vote democrat. 'Tea Party' voters will vote republican. Nothing will change.
 
This is a link to Jill Stein's State of the Union. It is interesting, logical, enlightening, and everything Repubs and Dems are not going to talk about during their campaigns.

"But the truth is both sides – despite the rhetoric – are responsible for the harsh policies driving our economy and our democracy into deep crisis. Simply put, they place the interests of Wall Street ahead of the needs of everyday people and the long term welfare of our nation."

TEXT: People's State of the Union - Jill Stein for President
 
In my dream world, I would pick a Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush ticket.

That thought is as gross as the picture under your name.


Gary Johnson (Libertarian Party)
Jill Stein (Green Party)

More globalist than the globalists. Controlled opposition.

Virgil Goode (Constitution Party)

Deliberately self sabotaged

Peta Lindsay (Party for Socialism and Liberation)
Tom Hoefling (Americas Party)
Stewart Alexander (Socialist Party USA)
Rocky Anderson (Justice Party)
Jim Carlson (Grassroots Party)
Tom Stevens (Objectivist Party)

Too small, who cares.
 
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GJ without a doubt. I'd love to substitute Ron Paul in there but he stayed with the Republicans (who are a real disgrace to Jefferson's party).
 
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