do you think third party candidates should run in the primaries of the big two parties.?

Question

i think this would help. I as a democrat, i thought very highly of many green party candidates but i din't want loose my vote and risk a republican in office so the democrat always gets my vote even if the green party candidate was more qualified. i really think it would be in the intrest of liberals to pool together to fight a common evil.

Answer 1

YES! We need more than the two choices we have. Both parties are polar opposites of each other and both refuse to even recognize the middle-ground people. They are entirely to focused on themselves and their own attitudes to see that others have merit as well. Ideas from either extreme will not solve any problems, only working together will solve them.

Answer 2

This discussion generally veers into the argument over running lots of candidates vs, running only a few targeted campaigns. Here is my take on this.

If you are in an area with no visibility at all for your party, then running lots of candidates helps gain visibility. Also some of the candidates may become long term activists which helps build momentum. In the LP it also emboldens the local party to use “None of the Above” to keep loony candidates off of the ballot.

Now that you have some visibility, you have to demonstrate some political competence. That means running for winnable races (which generally means non-partisan races), supporting individual activists who take it upon themselves to become acknowledged experts in a matter of interest in the political realm (i.e., transportation, campaign finance, election reform, environmentalism, city budgets, etc.), learning how to use media (press relations, public access radio/TV, radio/TV ads, internet) and eventually winning a seat or two in non-partisan races.

Now you have a base of support and should be earning progressively higher vote totals as well. (If not, then you haven’t demonstarted enough political competence yet.) Also by now you should have a number of candidates that can stand on their own in terms of fundraising. Also the local or state party should have enough regular donors to have a few full time paid staffers.

Where to go from there is less clear, but lucking into a two way race with a vulnerable opponent seems like the best chance for a breakthrough. Or perhaps your strongest candidate can make one of the major party candidates irrelevant in a particular race. (You can also win more attention and political respect by winning enough votes to become a deciding factor in a 3 way race, but winning should be the primary focus.)

Answer 3

Most third parties already know who their candidate is without a primary. Remember, there is nothing in the Consitution about primary elections: they are solely the construct of the political parties, designed to let their members choose the candidate. In the early days of the US, there were no primary elections, the candidates were chosen at the Convention by the representatives who attended. That's how you get people like Calvin Coolidge, who had the personality of a doorknob, into the office.

Answer 4

What encourages a 2-social gathering gadget interior the U. S.? Our staggering prefer to argue! while there is freedom of speech then there is freedom of theory substitute and you prefer a communicate board and context wherein to do it. If all of us did that jointly we'd get no the place. that is not straightforward sufficient getting human beings of comparable recommendations to agree on one guy, are you able to think of if dems & reps had to settle via mass determination on one individual? the final ingredient approximately our 2 social gathering gadget is that neither social gathering ever elects the president. on an identical time as each and each provides a candidate and the two aspects incredibly plenty votes for their guy, that's the independents that fairly %. the two aspects court docket them and that is those people who's votes tip the size left or suitable. bear in mind recent activities that should exchange this. The Tea social gathering social gathering (teabaggers) is splinter of the republican social gathering yet they are even too conservative for plenty of the hardcores so this fragments that social gathering and decreases that is power and % impression. If the teabaggers submit their own candidate then neither the reps+independents nor Teabaggers+independents would be waiting to conquer dems on my own.

Answer 5

Primaries are held to choose the nominee for the individual parties. By definition you have to be a Democrat to run in a Democratic primary and you have to be a Republican to run in a Republican primary.

Answer 6

Third party candidates cannot run in the primaries since there is one primary for the democrats and one primary for the republicans. Although your idea sounds great, it can't happen unfortunately.

Answer 7

The primaries are nothing more than private membership polls, so these organizations can choose who to sponsor.

They have no more constitutional meaning than the NRA or the Sierra Club polling their members to decide who to sponsor.

The fact that the two current major parties have gotten taxpayers to fund their private polls is outrageous.

Answer 8

Being a Liberal Democrat.....YES!!!!! It would do wonders for the country, but the right will never vote center, while the left is always looking for something better, the right NOT being it!

Answer 9

YES! They are just as important as the other two parties.

Answer 10

Yes, and the televised debates should include more than two parties.