non-voters

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Wed Jan 15 10:23:32 PST 2003


Luke:
> Nonsense! Everyone knows the general public fails to vote
> for the same
> reason some disaffected lefties choose not to vote--the lack
> of a genuine,
> compelling leftwing alternative to the Dems and Pubs.
>

Then how do you explain that Nader and the Greens, who can be considered a leftwing alternative to Republicrat duopoly did not get even 5 % of votes needed to qualify for federal funding? If memory serves, the populist rightwinger Ross Perot got some 8%.

Wojtek



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