Vote Pact

Achieving Dialogue

The VotePact strategy: A would-be Trump voter and a would-be Harris voter should pair up and both vote for other candidates who better reflect their values: Greens, Libertarians, whoever. So, instead of you and a friend canceling out each other’s votes, you both get to strategically vote for candidates you like best. About VotePact.

FAIR: Media “Opinion” Polls Replicate Bind Voter Already In

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Janine Jackson at the media watch group FAIR recently noted: Just recently, the Commission announced that the threshold for inclusion is based on public opinion—that’s to say, public opinion polls. Candidates must get 15 percent in polls conducted by five national organizations the group names. But there again, as journalist and activist Sam Husseini pointed […]

How Presidential “Non-Opinion” Polls Drive Down Third Party Numbers and Facilitate Debate Exclusion

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This week, the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates announced what polls it will utilize in excluding candidates from its debates. The CPD says candidates like the Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein must get 15 percent in polls conducted by “five national public opinion polling organizations” — ABC/Washington Post, CBS/New York […]

Ideas for VotePact: Town Hall Meetings, Dual Videos and more….

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Over at caucus99percent, CantStoptheSignal suggests activists with different takes on Bernie Sanders and “Our Revolution” put aside their differences and focus on helping VotePact for the rest of the election season: This is a magnificent idea, even if it fails to dislodge Hillary Clinton from the throat of the country, where we’re currently choking on […]

Trump Going to Mexico is not the Real Irony. NAFTA Is.

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Many are shocked that Donald Trump announced he is going to Mexico today. That misses the real ironies here: NAFTA — and how this should be a boon to the Green Party. First the obvious stuff: Donald Trump is playing to xenophobic sentiments. His “solutions” are in large part twisted or beside the point, for […]

Could Voters Opposed to Both Clinton and Trump Team up Using VotePact?

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There’s a solution to the predicament most of the U.S. will be facing between now and November: Liberals, progressives and others disenchanted with the likely Democratic nominee and conservatives disenchanted with the likely Republican nominee can to pair up and each vote for the candidates they more genuinely want.

#BernieAndBoom

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The dissent within the Democratic Party that Sen. Bernie Sanders has sparked needs somewhere to go. It should go in a direction that doesn’t back Clinton — and doesn’t help Trump. That seems like you can’t do both those things, but you can if you parse it through and do some real work. That energy […]

Selling a Lifetime Subscription to the Politics of Fear

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The Washington Post — and much of the establishment — wants you to buy a lifetime subscription to the politics of fear. Dana Milbank, a columnist for the paper, popped up at Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein’s news conference that focused on climate change. After Stein noted that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have […]

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