[Lnc-business] FW: Time magazine: Revenge of Third Parties

[Joshua Katz]

As usual, journalists cannot be bothered to look at actual data.

Joshua A. Katz
Westbrook CT Planning Commission (L in R seat)


On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Scott L. <scott73 at earthlink.net> wrote:

>       Former LNC Regional Representative Dianna Visek called this article
> to my attention.
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>    Scott Lieberman
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> “This article appears on page 11 of the Aug. 18, 2014 issue of *Time*
> magazine.  In the print version there's a map showing eleven states with
> "Senate Spoilers":
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> Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado,  Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, N.
> Carolina, S. Dakota, Virginia, W. Virginia.
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>   Dianna”
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> *This Election Season, Revenge of the Thirds
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> * *Extra-party politicians heat up the race for 2014*
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> For most of the modern era, third-party candidates have acted like the
> crazy uncles of American politics: fun to watch but rarely relevant. But in
> the past four years, the outcomes of four Senate races have been jumbled by
> outsiders, and this year is set to deliver even more disruption.
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> Ten of the 12 Senate seats with the potential to swing in November have
> drawn third-party challengers. Nine of those races have Libertarian Party
> candidates who are likely to pull votes from Republicans. That’s hardly
> news for Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, who is hoping his party
> can take six seats and regain control of the Senate, but who may have to
> contend with a Libertarian challenger of his own in Kentucky’s general
> election.
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> The question now is how much of a difference third-party hopefuls will
> make in the outcome of the fall contests. In the razor-thin race in
> Georgia, outside candidates like Libertarian Amanda Swafford, a paralegal
> and former city councilwoman who started her own newspaper, have drawn up
> to 7% of the vote in early polls. In North Carolina, Libertarian Sean
> Haugh, a pizza deliveryman, has rated in the high single digits in early
> polls, far more than the gap separating the two major-party candidates
> there.
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> The Libertarian boom grows out of Tea Party estrangement from
> Establishment Republicans and should, at the margins, benefit Democratic
> candidates. But even the most strident antigovernment candidates may draw
> some Democratic votes this year.
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> The volatile mix of angry voters and long ballots might even delay the
> election’s outcome. In Louisiana’s free-for-all contest, two outside
> candidates look likely to deprive the two main hopefuls, Democrat Mary
> Landrieu and Republican Bill Cassidy, of an outright win of 50% of the
> vote, forcing a runoff scheduled for Dec. 6. If control of the Senate hangs
> on that race, the nation will have to wait until then to learn who rules
> the chamber.
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