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Will hurt democrats, citing the similar spoiler effect in recent directions. it warned, quote, rather than producing a third-party ticket that would defy the overwhelming odds and win, no labels is on track to field a spoiler who would re-elect trump or a trump-like republican. in response, no labels posted a statement that read, in part, no one at no labels has any interest in fueling a spoiler effort. joining me to discuss, former ohio congressman and sen forrial candidate, tim ryan, who ran f...

Ranked choice voting in states around the country because it needs to happen in red and blue states alike. its likely to be done led by someone whos an independent. people know it takes about a year to write a book, so it would be difficult for me to somehow farmormulated this just over the last number of weeks, ive been thinking about this for quite some time. >> i remember all too well, andrew, your motto that was on your lapel pin, math, make america think harder. if you do the math, say you ...

Spoiler effect 2000 ends up being the perfect example. ralph nader got 93,000 votes in florida. al gore only lost florida by 537 votes. also, by the way, pat buchanan. there was the whole issue with the butterfly ballot, folks who seem to in confusion have voted for him. in that very narrow circumstance, you can clearly see where third party had the effect. but when it comes to the question here of schultz and what effect he would have, you heard it there. the democrats, they say he splits the a...

And based on running in 2020, how are you thinking about what this may mean to your candidacy? 30 seconds, and i apologize, jill, but i wanted you to finish with that. >> im a mother on fire, im a social activist long before im a political animal so ill be doing this work. i dont know what form that will take or whether ill be running for office at all. but those who are concerned about splitting the vote, this is the time to pass rank choice voting. which gets rid of the spoiler effect. if your...

Tuesday morning. college basketball. you guys are huge fans. national championship monday night. who are we predicting is in the game and who are we predicting wins it. you were a sports guy. >> yes. i just hope south carolina makes it. >> my man! >> i love the player stormwell. he is awesome. >> it would be nice. >> womens basketball i am rooting for mississippi state clearly. >> that game against baylor was the best men or womens game in the tournament. >> have to be honest with you. i am from...

You vote for three. you pick your top three choices, number them one, two, three. that essentially does the runoff for you if thats need. it eliminates the spoiler effect of minor candidates helping to elect major candidates who they dont like, ahem, ralph nader. as of this hour it looks like betsy hodges is in the lead with 99% of the vote in. in miami, the most viable challenger dropped out. so the sitting mayor will keep his seat. also in florida, in st. petersburg, the democratic challenger ...

Party. occupy, occupyrate and somebody named bob carney again. one was businesswoman and independent stephanie woodruff who put out this campaign ad a few days ago in which she was dressed only in saran wrap. shes making a point about transparency in government, and saran wrap is see through. so there you go. the filing fee to get into the race was only 20 bucks. so maybe that adds to the crowded field. minneapolis residents get to vote for their top three choices for mayor. you dont just vote f...

The white house support continued funding for these wasteful programs like the f-22 for instance. we have republicans and democrats alike fighting for continued funding for these programs because there are contractors spread out, and these it contractors know what they are doing. they get sub contractors for the f-22 in 44 states so all these folks will fight to take the bacon back home to their states or districts. its so counter to all of our interests. and the utter failure to provide the ess...

About 8% that year. in 1996 there was ralph nader in fourth place that year with less than 1% of the vote. in 2000, obviously ralph nader ran again. ran again on the green party ticket. and comparatively speaking he did great in the year 2000. he got 2.7% of the vote. and rightly or wrongly democrats to this day still blame the spoiler effect of the ralph nader candidacy in 2000 for having cost al gore just enough votes to deliver to the country and ultimately the world the administration of geo...