AUGUSTA, Maine — A new political party that’s pushing for a bipartisan ticket in the 2012 presidential election says it has earned a spot on November’s presidential ballot in Maine.
The group, called Americans Elect, said state election officials have verified enough of the 32,000 signatures it turned in last month to gain access to the Maine ballot. To maintain a spot on the ballot, the group also has to hold caucuses and a state convention.
The Washington-based nonprofit group wants voters to select a candidate in an online convention who would be joined on the ticket by a vice presidential candidate from a different party. Former Maine gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler is on its board of directors.
Americans Elect says it has been certified in 15 states so far.
Americans Elect bipartisan? Are you serious? LOL I want less to do with them than the baggers.
I might have signed that petition?
They were collecting signature one day at our town dump. I did not sign the petition.
Eliot Cutler, you have already ruined one election with your third party candidacy. If it weren’t for your failed attempt as a third party, we wouldn’t be stuck with LePage now!
Considering how few voted for the D, if Cutler hadn’t run, OutRage would’ve had his majority landslide. While you’re at it, you should also blame the other two independents on the ticket AND the five write-in candidates.
Uh, actually didn’t Scott and Moody ruin the campaign for Cutler since they were taking independent votes away from another independent? Also, studies show that the majority of independents are conservative leaning, as opposed to liberal-leaning (35% conservative compared to 20% liberal with the remainder being “moderate”): http://www.gallup.com/poll/148745/political-ideology-stable-conservatives-leading.aspx So if Cutler were out, it would have been a larger victory for LePage.
This is a socialist party. The best they will do is take votes from democrats, which would be a good thing.
Amen to that. I think they feel as if they will garner all of the independent vote, plus some wishy-washy democrats to push them over the edge, but it wont work as long as there are still fringe cooks like green party and various other independents running to swipe votes from their total.
It would be nice to have another choice, other than politics as usual with the Democrats and Republicans taking turns destroying our country.
Americans Elect is an Obama operation.
“… Yet the Americans Elect party has shown up — all vehicle, no passengers. Something is wrong with this picture.
…This fact, in and of itself, should tell anyone with half a political brain that something other than what appears on the surface is going on. Combine this with the fact that the Party was seed-moneyed by a 2008 Obama supporter, and there’s not much more to talk about.
The whole plan fits marvelously well with Obama’s apparent decision to run a hard-left, populist, eat-the-rich campaign. Such a campaign is not designed to recapture a substantial share of the independent center, but it will — so goes the plan — goose the turnout of the perfervid left. Given Obama’s apparent strategy of surrendering much of the independent middle and counting on a big showing by the core, it makes eminent sense to lure a large portion of the electoral middle into irrelevancy.
The best chance of terminally discrediting the Americans Elect scheme is early discovery and disclosure of the inevitable Obama operatives’ fingerprints all over it.”
Americans Elect: Obama’s Third-Party Tar Pit
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/americans_elect_obamas_third-party_tar_pit.html
Wouldn’t be interesting to see the Tea Party stand on their own under their own banner? I believe that the Koch brothers have enough seed money, so to speak, that they could finance them. I’m tired of seeing them be parasites, sucking the life blood out of the Republican Party.
Nothing wrong with a 4 or more party race.
“I’m tired of seeing them be parasites, sucking the life blood out of the Republican Party.”
So the huge Republican victories in November 2010 were “sucking the life blood out of the Republican Party?” In what universe?The Tea Party movement contributed greatly to Republican victories in 2010, but these victories should properly be viewed as giving the Republican Party a second chance to return to their original core principles of smaller government and individual liberty.
Comparing the organic Tea Party movement with an Obama operatives’ construct, Americans Elect, is a invalid comparison.
I didn’t realize that the Koch brothers were into organic gardening.
And in such a scenario, none of the candidates would win the majority of the electoral college. It would then be up to the House to choose the winner. With the number of Tea Party members there, we’d probably wind-up with the Tea Party candidate. That is a scary thought.
That would force candidates to find a coalition of different party supporters. Other countries have this system and the sky hasn’t fallen. It forces the ruling party to consider others besides their own personal faction. In other words if the Tea Party were to win the presidency they would in all likelyhood have to make nice with some Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, and god forbid maybe some Communists.
That is total nonsense – these guys just want to have a liberal party that masquerades as being all-inclusive and aisle-crossing to appeal to the ever-growing number of mindless fence-sitting independents. Their idea of a “bipartisan” ticket would be like a democrat and a green-party candidate, or a democrat and a liberal independent . Nice try guys… FAIL.