[Magdalen] Cruz on Trump

Grace Cangialosi gracecan at gmail.com
Sun Sep 25 20:10:50 UTC 2016


Well, I agree with both of those ideas, Jon!

> On Sep 25, 2016, at 3:23 PM, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What we need to do is get rid of the Electoral College and go to national
> popular vote.  And Election Day should be a national holiday.
> 
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 2:07 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
> 
>>>>> Without some real advance work and credibility, a third party candidate
>> is
>> not credible. Shouldn't be like that? Oh, I agree. But it IS like that.  It
>> is what it is. Wishing it to be something else will not change what is.<<<
>> 
>> Spot on, Jim.  And the only silver lining to a viable 3rd party candidate
>> is if, like Perot, he or she pulls equally from both, so the result is the
>> same (just no real majority).  And yes, Perot did pull equally; the GOP saw
>> that he gave the White House to Clinton is bulls***.
>> 
>> So, being a 2-party system whether we like it or not (a coalition gov't
>> here would be, if nothing else, fascinating), a vote for a 3rd party
>> candidate is a vote thrown away (to whoever happens to win).
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
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> let me be the first.
> brud


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