Brad wrote:
> 3% of the vote on your second campaign is not "building a movement."
> It's "being a spoiler."
>
> A movement should have 25% of the vote on its second campaign to be
> healthy. If it has less than 10%, it's dead...
>
The last successful US movement to expropriate a large part of the wealth of the rich had this record (popular vote of course) in Presidential elections:
1840 Birney 00.25% 1844 Birney 02.3% 1848 Van Buren 10% 1852 Hale 05% 1856 Fremont 33% 1860 Lincoln 40% 1864 Lincoln 55%
john mage