My point was that there are plenty of third party candidates for President in most states (there were, iirc, a half dozen in NJ last go round) but they don't really accomplish anything. Most don't even get to be spoilers. Even Nader, with significant Republican support, couldn't really serve as a spoiler in 2000 or 2004.
so, you may not care about NYS politics, but the NYS senate hangs in the balance because of the third party votes in several races.
And that would suck if that balance swung to the GOP and they managed to overturn some of the progress the NY Legislature did last session. Sadly, it seems that is the result the supposedly Democratic Governor of NY wants.
in rochester, for mayor, the dem got 49%, the WF (working families) candidate pulled 42%, while the green candidate pulled the remainder. this was the 2011 special election for mayor, where duffy went to work for cuomo, and the dem machine chose a corporat dem. thw WF ran their own candidate and damn near won
I'm not really talking about local races. Local races often have their own special characteristics. If a local party wants to make a name for itself in local politics and then eventually aim for bigger and better things then more power to them, in fact that was what I was suggesting from the beginning.
And if WF wanted to eventually supplant the Democratic Party in NY, and become the de facto left wing party in that state, I'd applaud them just as I applaud DFL, especially since the Democratic Party in NY seems a bit dysfunctional at least on the state level.
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so, you may not care about NYS politics, but the NYS senate hangs in the balance because of the third party votes in several races.
And that would suck if that balance swung to the GOP and they managed to overturn some of the progress the NY Legislature did last session. Sadly, it seems that is the result the supposedly Democratic Governor of NY wants.
in rochester, for mayor, the dem got 49%, the WF (working families) candidate pulled 42%, while the green candidate pulled the remainder. this was the 2011 special election for mayor, where duffy went to work for cuomo, and the dem machine chose a corporat dem. thw WF ran their own candidate and damn near won
I'm not really talking about local races. Local races often have their own special characteristics. If a local party wants to make a name for itself in local politics and then eventually aim for bigger and better things then more power to them, in fact that was what I was suggesting from the beginning.
And if WF wanted to eventually supplant the Democratic Party in NY, and become the de facto left wing party in that state, I'd applaud them just as I applaud DFL, especially since the Democratic Party in NY seems a bit dysfunctional at least on the state level.