Jim Morin for October 12, 2014

Says it all right.

People like that shouldn’t be voting anyways, but I’m sure the Democrats will send him a taxi along with some free booze and a Democrat Voters Guide.

… and with that, ConserveGov, another 50 middle class Americans said, “See, that’s what the GOP thinks of us …”

Makes it easier to know which candidate to purchase.

I’ll take Joe Biden with extra anchovies.

Cute, but totally inaccurate. Anyone who can get enough signatures ( generally 1% of registered voters) can get on the ballot. Then, in the primaries, the Dems and Repubs choose one of them, because they don’t want to have a bunch of candidates and split the vote, handing the election to the other party. This means that the Dems will have one candidate and Repubs will have one. But, there are usually other people on the ballot who got the signatures to be there. You just have never heard of them because they didn’t have the backing of the major parties to publicize them.

The real sadness though is that of those who DO vote? Only about 4% have read the actual measures that appear on the ballot, and only about 40% of voters know WHO is going to be on their ballots before they read them, and vote.

“It’s because of the dominant system. Minor parties are afraid to nominate candidates for fear of helping the least desirable candidate by dividing the vote.”While at the same time voters are afraid of voting 3rd party for fear of the “other guy” winning.

Perot stood a chance until he quit his campaign. He had lost too many voters when he resumed his campaign. That said, I had also voted Perot. I just couldn’t bring myself to vote for Clinton.