History is telling
the Democratic Party
to look backwards
in order to improve
this country’s
future!
The leaders of the
Democratic Party get that
“Me Only Disease”!
And
The Leaders of the
party
allow a non-Democratic
in to
destroy their election!
The only way to rid
our party
of old corrupt greedy outsiders
is to elect an
old tried and true
opponent to this invader!
Starting in 1971 we
have had at least four
'3rd party candidates'
take votes from the Democratic
party.
Dr. Benjamin
Spock
Margaret Wright.
Ralph Nader
Bernie Sanders
Just to name a few!
Remember the
People's Party (United States, 1971)
Check out the
political problems
to the democratic party just since 1971?
The
party's goal was to present a united anti-war platform for the coming election.
The
People's Party ran for the presidency two times.
Dr.
Spock was the Party's candidate for vice president.
Remember Ralph
Nader?
Spoiler controversy
1972
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the 1972 effort to draft Nader to be the candidate for the New Party
Ralph Nader's name
appeared in the press as a potential candidate for president for the first time
in 1971, when he was offered the opportunity to run as the presidential
candidate for the New Party,
a progressive
split-off from the Democratic Party in 1972.
Chief among his
advocates was author Gore Vidal, who touted a 1972 Nader presidential campaign
in a front-page article in Esquire magazine in 1971.
Psychologist Alan
Rockway organized a "draft Ralph Nader for President" campaign in
Florida on the New Party's behalf.
Nader declined their
offer to run that year;
the New Party
ultimately joined with the People's Party in running Benjamin Spock in the 1972
presidential election.
Spock had hoped
Nader in particular would run, getting "some of the loudest applause of
the evening" when mentioning him at the University of Alabama.
Spock went on to try
to recruit Nader for the party among over 100 others, and indicated he would be
"delighted" to be replaced by any of them even after he accepted the
nomination himself.
Nader received one
vote for the vice-presidential nomination at the 1972 Democratic National
Convention.
1992
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Nader stood in as a
write-in for "none of the above" in both the 1992 New Hampshire
Democratic and Republican Primaries and received 3,054 of the 170,333
Democratic votes and 3,258 of the 177,970 Republican votes cast.
He was also a
candidate in the 1992 Massachusetts Democratic Primary, where he appeared at
the top of the ballot (in some areas, he appeared on the ballot as an
independent).
1996
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1996
Nader was drafted as
a candidate for President of the United States on the Green Party ticket during
the 1996 presidential election.
He was not formally
nominated by the Green Party USA, which was, at the time, the largest national
Green group;
instead he was
nominated independently by various state Green parties (in some states, he
appeared on the ballot as an independent).
However, many
activists in the Green Party USA worked actively to campaign for Nader that
year.
Nader qualified for
ballot status in 22 states, garnering 685,297 votes or 0.71% of the popular
vote (fourth place overall), although the effort did make significant
organizational gains for the party.
He refused to raise
or spend more than $5,000 on his campaign, presumably to avoid meeting the
threshold for Federal Elections Commission reporting requirements;
the unofficial Draft Nader committee could
(and did) spend more than that, but the committee was legally prevented from
coordinating in any way with Nader himself.
Nader received some
criticism from gay rights supporters for calling gay rights "gonad
politics" and stating that he was not interested in dealing with such
matters.
However, more
recently, Nader has come out in support of same-sex marriage.
His 1996 running
mates included: Anne Goeke (nine states), Deborah Howes (Oregon), Muriel
Tillinghast (New York), Krista Paradise (Colorado), Madelyn Hoffman (New
Jersey), Bill Boteler (Washington, D.C.), and Winona LaDuke (California and
Texas).
At least September
2014.
Though he had
previously run as an
independent,
he routinely caucused with the
Democratic
Party, as many of his views align with Democrats.
Running as a
Democrat made it easier to participate in
debates and
get his name on state ballots.
Sanders's chief
competitor for the nomination was Hillary Clinton, a former secretary of state.
Sanders drew large crowds to his speaking events and his
populist,
socialist, and
social democratic politics
won him particular support among Americans under 40. He performed strongly with
white voters, but consistently trailed Clinton by 30 or more percentage points
among black voters; polls showed a close race among Hispanic voters.
The leaders of the
Democratic Party get that
“Me Only Disease”!
