Cordell asked:
chance in 2008, if not what about 2012 or 2016?
chance in 2008, if not what about 2012 or 2016?
With all this talk about Globe warming and oil and energy conservation do you think the green party will have?
January 5th, 2009 by Discuss this article »
As a Unitarian and friends with many Green party friends, I’m sorry but I have to say this to all Green party folks - unless there is an absolute SHOO-in for a Green Party candidate to become President, I really think you guys need to be realistic and vote for someone who will BEAT the GOP!
Case in point: 2000? Imagine if Al Gore had won… (who now is the frontman of global warming due to “An Inconvenient Truth”) things would be so different now… like not having spent over $300 billion on the war in Iraq (or more than that?), Hurricane Katrina would’ve had a much better response, not backing out of the Kyoto Protocol, healthcare for children in poverty, our magnitude deficit.. so much more thanks to El Presidento Busho and the Supreme Court.
Um yeah. So if you wish to be the 5-15% to vote for the Green b/c of your principles, then go for it. Sorry if I’m sounding a bit bitter.
No–for structural reasons the Green Party is extremely unlikely to win a significant percentage of the vote. If the party started to do well its positions would be usurped by the Democrats.
There has only been one Presidential election since 1856 where the Democratic and Republican parties did not finish in the top two slots–and that was in 1912 when the third party candidate was Teddy Roosevelt. He still didn’ t win.
a 3rd party vote is never a wasted vote , but i don’t think the green party has a chance in the foreseeable future