I just posted this on the American Association for Public Opinion Research listserve. While I certainly agree that framing etc huge problem, doesn’t seem to me that this gets at critical issues made evident from what happened. There of course is a spiral of silence with regard to “third party” candidates. Stein and Johnson supporters […]
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Should “Third Parties” Embrace VotePact?
From “Should Third Parties Support ‘Vote Pacts’ To Avoid ‘Spoiling’ Elections?” by Kit O’Connell at MintPress: “A lot of people have basically grown to depend on the confines of the two-party system and have a hard time getting their brain around a constructive, strategic path out of it,” Sam Husseini, a political activist, told MintPress […]
“This Political Activist Created A Meaningful Way For You To Vote Third Party”
From Bustle.com: “This Political Activist Created a Meaningful Way For You To Vote Third Party” by Amée LaTour: One of the main appeals of Vote Pact is that it allows people to vote for candidates they actually support without begrudgingly helping their least-preferred major-party candidate in doing so, since one vote is denied each candidate. Husseini suggests […]