<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">An Ironman-competing self-made millionaire, Gary Johnson is notching 10% or more in polls against Clinton and Trump. <a href="https://t.co/C8gddQM7Nq">https://t.co/C8gddQM7Nq</a></p>— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) <a href="https://twitter.com/FiveThirtyEight/status/741409879240282113">June 10, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> 10%. This could be big.
Where does he have to be at in the polls to participate ? I listened to his podcast on Joe Rogan. Actually here it is. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KQIuHGbKckY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> I would still vote for Jill Stein over him. I respect the guy though, and agree with quite a lot of what he says.
I just looked it up. It's 15% which does make it very very interesting. If he was up there it would change the dynamic considerably. I remember in the podcast he mentions that after Ross Perot they made these rules.
15% is actually insanely high. If even 5% of America is interested in a candidate, that's 15 million people, hypothetically. I would honestly place the threshold at 5% and it would be good for our democracy. Imagine debates with Dem, Repub, Green and Libertarian candidates sharing the stage. Four party system actually makes sense, with alliances forming in different ways on different issues. I know that is a pie in the sky picture that won't come to pass, but it's fun to contemplate. EDIT: kudos to CH for another stellar thread title. The consistency in your oeuvre is really and truly remarkable. *golf clap*
Best candidate out there, no question. Its no surprise that the two parties work with one another, but the presidential debate part is totally absurd. What are the chances we see our guy show up?
Then the majors would refuse to debate or just create their own dedicated network and separately podcast their discussion, while fringe candidates have to explain open borders and public school defunding to big three anchors and producers in their ear who couldn't care less about access down the road.
While he may not poll high, there's a good chance as the season continues, and more and more Republicans are turned off by Trump, finally taking him for what he is, Gary Johnson will be standing there with open arms. Actually, you could say the same for Hillary, but to a lesser degree. It would be monumental for Johnson to win, but it'll never happen. It's what this country needs, though, as it would leave the Republican party in splinters, forcing them to regroup, and it would introduce a viable third party into the system, which, I think is the sweet spot for our system.
For all the talks about the strong/deep GOP field full of current and former governors, the one ticket with not one, but two former GOP governors is the Libertarian Johnson Weld ticket.
The "interview" with Samantha Bee (Full Frontal) was awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdkznU2IvfU
I've been turned off by the republicans far before Trump, not easy to stomach Hilary but it is a clear if presented with two alternatives. On one end you can go for everything you want and have a slim chance of getting it, or settle for something not exactly appealing but eliminating the possibility of **** hitting the fan in a buffoon being the image for the rest of us. 1.)Johnson 2.)Hillary 3.)Writing my own name down on the ballot If we were to define our politically allegiances based on a 2 party system it gets pretty complicated. I'm in the middle but lean left on most social issues but right on fiscal issues (which is how I perceive the majority of americans also), in the past voting red seemed more logical, but the right has gone so far off the cliff that it has come to embody everything that scares the living **** out of us. Voting for a candidate like Hilary would normally be out of the question, but if the only alternate was Trump it wouldn't even be a question for me. Johnson is everything we want presented right before us on a silver platter, with the addition of every onlooker telling us how poisonous and disgusting our meal is going to be.
