[Cainehill]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:

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Originally posted by tinkthank:
We, meaning US citizens about whom this poll is and the group a member of which I proudly be.

2, meaning those two only who receive official national funding (1$ per tax return, remember), and meaning those two with more than even slightly nominal membership in a house of representation.

Well actually any party that fronts a candidate gets that money. And thats only about a dozen out of the many many partys. So far they rarely try to put anyone up for presidency. Mostly they are active at city, county, state levels. But it has happened fairly often (nader, perot, buchanan)

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Er - First, tinkthank - it's not $1 per tax return. At most it's 99.99 cents, because I for one check the box that says that no, one dollar from my taxes isn't to go to help one of two whores get into office.

Second : Nader didn't get any money. For a party to get any of that money, they have to have received at least 5% of the popular vote the previous election. So - Nader, who co-opted the Greens, didn't get the money. Buchanan, who raped, er, co-opted Perot's party, may have - I don't remember if they got 5% in 96.

Also - Bush didn't, and won't, be getting any of that money. Reason being that it winds up being "matching funds" for what the candidate spends, as long as they follow certain rules about their funding, ads, etc. Boy Bush turned down the money in 2000 so he wouldn't have any limitations - his oil, lumber, and other industrial patrons have already poured enough money into his pot that he doesn't need matching funds.

I take back what I said, about Cthulhu. If you're tired of picking the lesser of two evils - vote Bush.