This is the Open Thread for the month of November.
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Independent Political Report
Covering third parties and independent candidates since 2008
This is the Open Thread for the month of November.
Please leave any tips, announcements, or others things below.
I’m calling it now.
2024: President Mark Cuban
Nope. No cigar.
Sorry, Butterfly.
So Alaska and Massachusetts both had referendums for installing Instant Runoff Voting. The Massachusetts one was fairly simple, to basically just hold elections as they are now but with the instant runoff. The Alaska one was more complicated; essentially, it abolished party primaries entirely, had one big primary election for everyone who wanted to run. The 4 people with the most votes would go on to the main election which would be decided by instant runoff voting. The Alaska one also had some measures meant to try to stop dark money, but I’m focusing on the instant runoff part here as that’s most relevant to third party interests.
The Massachusetts one failed (54.9% no with 99% reporting), but the Alaska one appears to have narrowly passed (50.4% voted yes, with 99% reporting). So it seems a state other than Maine is going to have Instant Runoff Voting statewide, though the Alaska version is a bit more complicated.
Hmm, I kinda thought there might be a summary of alternative party vote totals here, at least for president. What’s happened to this site?
The latest I’ve found are
Jorgensen 1,839,289
Hawkins 385,197
De La Fuente 70,778
La Riva 66,362
West 62,645
Blankenship 57,346
Pierce 43,387
Carroll 21,995
All others less than 6,300 votes each
Why? The numbers will continue to change. I’ll wait until they are final to post totals.
Because this is a news site?
I mean, there have been five posts since the election, all content from elsewhere, no original IPR analysis at all…
Nik,
Those are old numbers.
Check https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/ for updated results.
I could post a column about the Indiana Governor election results, the strong performance of the Libertarian candidate, and how the Democratic Party is dying in vast swathes of this country, ready to be replaced for second-party status.
The American Independent Party is still promoting Trump for 2020 — even though they later endorsed another candidate for 2020: http://aipca.org/
How often does the AIP update its website? Once every 5 or 6 years?
The comments at the article’s bottom post some interesting evidence that Biden stole the election: http://housingbubble.blog/?p=4205
President Trump won 11 million more popular votes in 2020 than he did in 2016. By contrast, in his re-election, former President Obama won 4 million less votes in 2012 than he did in 2008.
The last time a President lost re-election after receiving more popular votes than in his election was in 1888 when Grover Cleveland received more votes than he did in 1884. Cleveland actually won the popular vote in 1888, but lost the electoral college. He ran again in 1892 and became the first (and thus far only) president to serve nonconsecutive terms.
The last time a President lost re-election and the popular vote after receiving more votes than in his election was in 1840 with Martin Van Buren. Van Buren ran again as the third party Free Soil candidate in 1848 but received far fewer votes which amounted to only 10 percent of the total.
The only other time this happened was in 1828 when John Quincy Adams received more popular votes in losing re-election than he did upon his election in 1824. This was a very different situation, however, because in 1824 the popular vote winner Andrew Jackson actually led in the electoral college but did not have a majority. It went to the House of Representatives where Henry Clay allegedly delivered the votes for Adams in exchange for the Secretary of State position, i.e. the corrupt bargain.
Statistical study of electoral anomalies in 2020:
https://votepatternanalysis.substack.com/p/voting-anomalies-2020
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William:
None of those presidents had anywhere near the visceral hatred against them.
Millions of people came out to get him out of office. So sure, he increased the size of his cult – and population growth also plays a part, but even bigger was the desire to rid of of an international cancer.
Paulie:
Hang in there my friend!
“None of those presidents had anywhere near the visceral hatred against them.”
The unwarranted, psychotic hatred called Trump derangement syndrome was a motivation for some voters and for some vote counters it seems. That hatred would help explain a motivation behind the seemingly (Occam’s razor) manmade anomalies presented in the link above.
Unwarranted . . . sure . . . .
New Yorkers have known what an absolutely disgusting human being he is for decades.
Even if he espoused every policy I support ( whic would be impossible because he has no knowledge of any actual policies), I would NEVER have voted for such a vile person to be the face of this nation.
I just returned from two weeks in Europe and was asked about him several times. The world now laughs at us because of him. The sooner he is in the trash heap of history the better.
One thing that Paulie and I agree on 🙂
New Yorkers have known what an absolutely disgusting human being he is for decades.
His personal behavior is no worse than that of the average hot shot in Hollywood or Wall Street.
William, yeah, I’m going to trust a Substack that didn’t start posting about this until after the election, posted twice in one day and hasn’t since. These “anomalies” have been addressed in many other places. Told W. Joseph Campbell the same when he did his latest post on Media Myth Alert earlier this week.
Root’s Teeth . . . ” . . . .His personal behavior is no worse than that of the average hot shot in Hollywood or Wall Street . . . ”
Sure . . . if it makes you feel better to think that . . . . .
TDS is real, but I’d say it applies to people who believe Trump is a White supremacist or a far-right genocidal dictator at heart. Criticizing his vaguely paleocon isolationist policies, shocking ignorance and loose relationship with the truth, self-serving disregard for political and legal institutions, authoritarian temperament, populist demagoguery, amoral lifestyle and history of credible sexual assault allegations isn’t enough to qualify.