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Unity08
Anyone heard of this? They make a lot of really good points.
http://www.unity08.com
What they believe:
Unity08 believes that neither of today’s major parties reflects the aspirations, fears or will of the majority of Americans. Both have polarized and alienated the people. Both are unduly influenced by single-issue groups. Both are excessively dominated by money.
For most of the 20th Century, the contest for the U.S. presidency was waged over those “in the middle.” Recent Presidential elections, however, have not been focused on the middle but on the turnout of each party’s special interest groups – with each party’s “base” representing barely ten percent of the American people.
We believe that, while the leaders of both major parties are well intentioned people, they are trapped in a flawed system – and that the two major parties are today simply neither relevant to the issues and challenges of the 21st Century nor effective in addressing them.
As a result, most Americans have not been enthusiastic about the choices for President in recent elections, the key issues they ran on, or the manner in which the campaigns were conducted.
Therefore Unity08 will act to assure that an alternative ticket is presented to the American voters in 2008.
Our Goals
We have set three specific goals, and are exploring how best to achieve them.- Goal One is the election of a Unity Ticket for President and Vice-President of the United States in 2008 – headed by a woman and/or man from each major party or by an independent who presents a Unity Team from both parties.
- Goal Two is for the people themselves to pick that Unity Ticket in the first half of 2008 – via a virtual and secure online convention in which all American voters will be qualified to vote.
- Goal Three, our minimum goal, is to effect major change and reform in the 2008 national elections by influencing the major parties to adopt the core features of our national agenda. With a group of voters who comprise at least 20% of the national electorate, we feel confident that our voters will decide the 2008 election.
Any thoughts on this?
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Re: Unity08
It won't work.
They express the frustation everyone has - but they are not putting a flag down in the soil over what the stance these "Unity" candidates will have.
People need a set of issues and what they are going to do about them to vote for them.
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Re: Unity08
I forgot that I had posted this.
Yeah, you're probably right Deogol, it's a long shot, but certainly worth a shot, the two party system seems broken to me (too much power on the extreme sides of both party's).
What about in this scenerio, the republicans nominate Jeb Bush (or Bill Frist or some other far right candidate), the dems pick Hilary Clinton and the Unity08 party picks moderates Rudy Guilliani (for President) and Wesley Clark or Joe Lieberman (for VP).
Wouldn't that give people some food for thought? I think it would.
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Re: Unity08
It would at least give people some different options that is for sure. Maybe the party's "consultants" would have something to chew over if Unity got even 15% of the vote.
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