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Cindy Sheehan Press Release:
Cindy Sheehan’s Campaign Prepares For Election Day
7:00am – 8:00am, Sheehan will drive through San Francisco to speak with voters with Cynthia McKinney, a former United States Representative and the 2008 Green Party nominee for President of the United States.
TIME Magazine piece and more at read more
TIME Magazine has finally awakened to the fact that third party candidates exist. And, their article even has a few good points of explaining how powerful third parties can be, and how useful they can be. But, besides that, they mostly want to critique Barr and Nader as spoilers. And, they only briefly mention Green Party Presidential Candidate Cynthia McKinney. Still, it is something.
(excerpt from) TIME
Could Third Party Candidates Be Spoilers This Time?
Given the current political environment, third parties really should have had a better year. After all, many of the things Americans find most objectionable about the last eight years, from the first authorization to go to war in Iraq to the $700 billion Wall Street bailout, are byproducts of the two party system. To third parties, bi-partisanship looks a lot like collusion. And certainly on at least a few key issues, from immigration reform to support for Israel, the two candidates’ positions are not that dissimilar.
Drake’s Goldford says that third parties have gotten more than 5% nationwide in only 13 presidential elections since 1832. But their value is real, in as much as they often channel some genuine discontent that the major parties then end up having to address. “Third parties are like that carbon monoxide detector in the hallway,” he says. “They start beeping because there’s something going on that the major parties didn’t notice.”
Cynthia McKinney’s big mention in TIME:
Still, it doesn’t take a broad national showing for Barr, Nader, Chuck Baldwin (the Constitution Party candidate whom Paul eventually endorsed), or Cynthia McKinney (the Green Party candidate), to have an effect on the election.
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Miscellaneous articles I collected and may never have time to blog more fancilly:
why voting major party is enabling them…positive about why vote green and what green party stands for…
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Wresting-Control-from-the-by-Jack-Harrington-081102-854.html
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History of Green Party courting Cynthia, speaks of 5% goal…
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/4018/dreaming_green
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Think the Green Party are spoilers? Think again…you can never guess or measure the outcome of each voter being empowered…and, all voices in the discussion can help the power of the people all around…Article at CNN with a poll that says when you add 3rd parties, Obama’s lead goes up…
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/02/obama-seven-points-ahead-in-cnns-final-poll/
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