Green Canidates on the ballot in several states...

[Roly Poly Oly-Garch]

You said Green Party. I'm a Green. I'm going to talk about Greens.

I don't really know a whole lot about Dr. Stein's running mate. Hey, Rev, I seem to recall you saying something about the Greens in Maine being a little looney tunes. Could you expand upon that point?

A vote for the Green Party is a vote for Romney.  Just saying.

Yeah, but a vote for Obama is a vote for Obama...and a vote against the Green party.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

I think I like the Green Party, but as we have learned from the GOP, it's way more effective to overwhelm and derail one of the major parties and go off in extreme directions than it is to challenge the two-party system with a third party.

[BabylonHoruv]

You said Green Party. I'm a Green. I'm going to talk about Greens.

I don't really know a whole lot about Dr. Stein's running mate. Hey, Rev, I seem to recall you saying something about the Greens in Maine being a little looney tunes. Could you expand upon that point?

A vote for the Green Party is a vote for Romney.  Just saying.

Only if you would otherwise vote for Obama...

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Vex- i would disagree on tht point. Notice tht republicans started calling them libertatians because of dubya.

[AFK]

And I don't ever see the DEMS allowing themselves to be hijacked by Occupy or some fringe group like Earth First.  They're all about being bland and safe.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Yeah if anything them dems are maintaining appel with independents by remaining centrist

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Granted it seemed like the dems attempted to coopt the occupy movement but considering that theyre just as critical of the dems it wsnt going to work. Conversely te prtiers complin about politicins in general but still opt to vote exclusively for republicans. Fake libertarians. Occpuy is made up of real anarchists real communists real socialists etc...

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Also i may have mentioned this but the a button tends to stick on my phone.

[Placid Dingo]

Wait, so in America a Greens vote disappears when the Greens do?

Thats fucked.

In aus, if you're done a preferential vote your vote goes to your second choice after your first choice drops out.

If you've just voted 1, your vote goes to the party thats done a deal with the one you've voted for.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Its... Im not sure what you mean. If the greens have party status i have to choose the green i prefer for the primary. If we do not have party status i can select the party that i want to vote for in the primary. In those cases i believe that mass indicates their preference in the primary for the greens by state convention which happens usually in worcester. I dont have a car and worcester is a pain in the ass to get to from boston if you dont have a car.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

So ok. For example no party status. I go in to vote for the primary. How would you like to vote today kevin? Oh.... Democrat since greens arent on the ballot. I write in vermin supreme instead of checking off obama. But then in november my choices are not party specific but rather by remaininga candidates which this year will be romney obama jill stein (green) and gary johnson (libertarian). So first vote is restricted to one party. Second vote is not.

[Placid Dingo]

I'm not understanding; The first vote is the primary, right? So that's where you decide what?

We have one vote. If I vote for greens and greens don't win, my vote then goes to someone else. Usually Labor.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Ok the primary is to decide who is the candidate for a particular party. The dems had very little real opposition to obama. Hes a sitting prez. The gop on the other hand had numerous candidates. What was strange there is that romney was never the front runner but won the nomination. And that is what the primary is. Who is the candidate for x party. The way it works is that there are a slew of primaries across different states. Iowa and new hampshire for example are among the first. Then we have super tuesday when a whole lot of states are clustered. Mass is one of those states. USUALLY super tuesday decides who is the candidate for each party. at the national conventions for each party the nomination is formalized. to be continued...

[East Coast Hustle]

Round here Irving got out of the convenience stores and they are all run by Circle K now, though the gas definitely is still an Irving product, but I don't buy anything from those place either.  I always try to hit up the local mom and pop places.

See, this is proof that everything west of the Kennebec is Northern Massachusetts. REAL Maine would never have a Circle K.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Last week romney officially became the republican candidate in the general election. This week obama became the official dem candidate. Even though we knew months ago that it would be romney and obama (and with the greens stein was a favorite as well). So this is a separating the wheat from the chaff and then rallying as a party behind one candidate. Now that we know all the players we get to select from that pool in november.