{"id":3315,"date":"2010-11-09T03:17:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T11:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2010-11-09T03:17:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T11:17:53","slug":"the-next-third-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/09\/the-next-third-party\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Third Party?"},"content":{"rendered":"

in As a rule, I have a problem with third parties, although I often agree with their goals.  Historically, they have tended to help Republicans achieve elected office, and Republicans often finance their inclusion on the ballot to split the lefty vote.  So I would not vote for a third party candidate, unless first, I support their candidate\u2019s positions, and second, either the candidate has a solid chance to win, or the Democrat in the race is just to heinous to support.  Here\u2019s a third party that could never get my vote, but that I would love to see formed.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"9rubio\"<\/p>\n

Today, Cindy and Mike Jacobs of Generals International held a webcast to discuss the meaning of last week’s elections and Cindy proclaimed<\/a> that despite the Republican wins, the nation would see the rise of a third party based on God’s righteousness that will be led by people like Marco Rubio as proof:<\/p>\n

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I have to admit that I had not noticed that, but Jacobs is correct\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Right Wing Watch<\/a>><\/p>\n

Aren\u2019t third parties that split the right-wing vote a great idea?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

in As a rule, I have a problem with third parties, although I often agree with their goals.  Historically, they have tended to help Republicans achieve elected office, and Republicans often finance their inclusion on the ballot to split the lefty vote.  So I would not vote for a third party candidate, unless first, I […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}