Take Away The Right Wing 3rd Party Votes and Romney Might Have Won

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  1. BLAZER PROPHET

    BLAZER PROPHET Well-Known Member

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    Tough way to lose, but third party candidates have a right to run for president.
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Where might Mitt have won but for 3rd party candidates?

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  3. BlazerCaravan

    BlazerCaravan Hug a Bigot... to Death

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    Looks like Florida would be very very close if it weren't for Johnson... but we Democrats yelled at the Green candidate in 2000 for playing spoiler too... it happens.
     
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    Get a better candidate than Mitt No Personality Romney and the Republicans would have won easily.
     
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  5. BLAZER PROPHET

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    Take libertarian votes and add them to Romney and at the end of the election it may be the difference in Florida and Ohio.
     
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    julius Living on the air in Cincinnati... Staff Member Global Moderator

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    I think there is some truth to it, although not to the degree that some think.

    I think a bigger reason why he (Romney) lost was due to being a poor candidate.
     
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  7. BLAZER PROPHET

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    Well, yeah, that too.
     
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    maxiep RIP Dr. Jack

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    I look at the way this country has voted and I now know that Romney never stood a chance of winning. This country has changed. We're less free than we were this morning.
     
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  9. BLAZER PROPHET

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    In the end, I don't think any state went to Obama due to third party voting. And if one or two may have, the outcome would have been the same.
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    I hate when they blame third party voters. The people who choose to vote third party are doing so because they are fed up with the two party system. They chose not to vote for Romney or Obama because they thought those two candidates were terrible. I know that when I vote third party, I am doing so to send a message that I am one of the millions of Americans who are disenfranchised with the system and want to see a change.
     
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  11. BLAZER PROPHET

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    That's a fair point. But I think if there were only two choices, those people would have voted anyway.
     
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    No, you are the same amount of free as you were this morning. What you've got less of now is delusion. Welcome back to reality-land.

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  13. BLAZER PROPHET

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    A true statement.
     
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    44Thrilla cuatro cuatro

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    who's to say Libertarians would all vote for Romney? They certainly don't agree with him on any social issues. That stuff actually matters to some people.
     
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  15. Fez Hammersticks

    Fez Hammersticks スーパーバッド Zero Cool

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    You certainly drank the kool-aid.

    Give me a fucking break.
     
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    So, in addition to blaming Bush, Obama, and the liberal leaning media for the economy and whatever else ails, let's add Denny to the blame list since he stuck to his independent guns.
     
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    i voted libertarian, but i would never have voted for romney, if anything it cost obama a vote, so yeah, not following the premise of this thread either
     
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  18. maxiep

    maxiep RIP Dr. Jack

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    Thank you for your opinion. You stay classy.
     
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    My choice was Johnson

    My vote was Romney

    My nightmare was Obama

    People that voted for Gary Johnson were foolish
     
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    I was confident in Romney's ability to right this country to be honest even though I generally lean libertarian. So I voted for him. I hold no ill for those that voted libertarian though. The entitlement class is just too attractive to the mass populations. Its just going to get worse though. Just have to live with it, no matter how fucked up it becomes.
     
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