And with the Repugs in full control of both the White House and the Congress, why should they bother? They will control redistricting, senior Dem progressives in the House will retire. With no campaign finance reform, money will now flow big time to Repugs in the House. I see them controlling there for the next generation. Why should they change anything? What can anybody do about it? Barkley Rosser -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Newman <nathan at newman.org> To: lbo-Talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-Talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 5:37 AM Subject: Green Strategy: Replace Electoral College with National Instant Runoff
>If Nader and the Greens want to permanently institutionalize themselves,
>they should immediately jump into the whole debate on the electoral college
>debacle and advocate replacing the electoral college with ranked voting and
>an instant runoff.
>
>They can point out that if such existed now, there would be no crisis
>whatsoever since most Nader voters (about half from exit polls) would have
>ranked Gore second, giving him a full majority of the national popular
vote.
>
>Such a strategy would build bridges with progressive Dems (since it would
>highlight why Gore should become President) while also pushing a system
that
>would allow the Greens to garner far more than 5% in the next Presidential
>debate. Essentially, there is potential for the Greens to cut a deal with
>the Dems to support Gore for President in exchange for radically opening
the
>political system to third party voting.
>
>This is a unique political moment- unique not in the rhetorical sense but
>the truly once in history sense - which Nader and the Greens could use to
>push to radically reshape the political terrain.
>
>-- Nathan Newman
>
>