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    Straight outta Brooklyn-The revenge of the Trots

    By jollyroger on Tue, 09/13/2011 - 9:10am |

    No, this is not some variation on Montezuma's Revenge-this is about today's special election to replace Anthony "I got a package for you right here, little lady" Weiner.

    Turner, the Repugnant is outpolling Weprin, the Dem in a district taken 55% by Obama.

    Meanwhile,  a Socialist Workers Party candidate, Chris Hoeppner, is polling at 4% in the PPP survey.

    This is, in other words, Bush/Gore/Nader redux.

    Now, before we shed tears at the prospect of increasing Boehner's hold on the speakership by another vote, pause and reflect that the road to relevance for a third party will always  traverse terrain labeled "here there be spoilers" .  

    If you don't like the corporate Democratic party, and you think (I'm talkin to you, Tmac) that only by reforming the party away from its corporate masters can we hope to wrest the country back from the edge of the abyss, you will need to reconcile yourself to the occasional loss caused by the insistent pressure of a leftie.

    By the way, the Dem in question Weprin, is pretty much your standard wall street tool, hardly a worthy successor to Weiner, who, if I may be forgiven the flippancy, had balls.

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    I'ts going to hurt like hell, but if we don't ever get either a) an influential Liberal third party, or b) a Liberal takeover of the Democratic Party, we're going to keep trundling down the road to government of, by and for the Plutocrats.

     


    by Red Planet on Tue, 09/13/2011 - 11:32am

    Turner leads at the moment.

    by jollyroger on Tue, 09/13/2011 - 2:12pm

    You know I disagree with you strategically, but logically this is sound:

    Now, before we shed tears at the prospect of increasing Boehner's hold on the speakership by another vote, pause and reflect that the road to relevance for a third party will always  traverse terrain labeled "here there be spoilers".

    One thing we could both agree on (and hence will never happen) is that changing our voting system from its current style to some form of ranked voting would help fix this dilemma. I'm no lawyer, but I don't think this even needs to happen on a national level. I think each state gets to set up its own method of voting, so I'd love it if some state would take the reins on this.


    by Verified Atheist on Tue, 09/13/2011 - 11:46am

    keep your eye on the mayoral vote in SanFran. That's how we do it. Also Oaktown's mayor won because of ranked choice votes.

    by jollyroger on Tue, 09/13/2011 - 2:09pm