A third party?

[rev_thumper]

So the buzz continues this week, will religious conservatives run a third party candidate for President instead of backing a Republican candidate who does not meet their litmus tests?

Most of the media and blogosphere yakking has centered on what impact this would have on the election, Salon.com even drew up a pretty map showing how Hilary defeats

Comments

[kpram]

The problem is that the fringe folks need to gather in one state to get the representation.

The Free State Project is working on that in NH.

http://freestateproject.org/

[rev_thumper]

No, I don't accept that this would be necessary with a party spun off from the current two party system. A religious right party would be able to control 5-10 House seats in certain conservative districts and the same is true on the left. Yes, these would be regional parties but they would only need to get support in individual Congressional districts, not an entire state.

But, using the Free State Project as a smaller example... they are not trying to run candidates for Governor. They are trying to have their affiliates settle in a small area so they can take a few seats in the state legislature, the local school board, etc. That's basically the same strategy.

(FSP is not making a lot of friends locally so we'll see how that goes.)

[7ofclubs]

I followed the link to an interesting article, but never did see the map. Is the link correct?

[rev_thumper]

Yea, but the image is not loading for some reason at the top of the page.... try this:

http://images.salon.com/news/feature/2007/10/19/giuliani/story.jpg

[7ofclubs]

Ah, much better!

Hee hee hee...great to see that much blue!