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"To begin busting up the dumb system we have for selecting presidents, a bipartisan group will open shop this week at Unity08.com. This Internet-based third party is spearheaded by three veterans of the antique 1976 campaign: Democrats Hamilton Jordan and Gerald Rafshoon helped get Jimmy Carter elected; Republican Doug Bailey did media for Gerald Ford before launching the political TIP SHEET Hotline. They are joined by the independent former governor of Maine, Angus King, and a collection of idealistic young people who are also tired of a nominating process that pulls the major party candidates to the extremes. Their hope: to get even a fraction of the 50 million who voted for the next American Idol to nominate a third-party candidate for president online and use this new army to get him or her on the ballot in all 50 states. The idea is to go viral—or die. "The worst thing that could happen would be for a bunch of old white guys like us to run this," Jordan says. The Unity08 plan is for an online third-party convention in mid-2008, following the early primaries. Any registered voter could be a delegate; their identities would be confirmed by cross-referencing with voter registration rolls (which would also prevent people from casting more than one ballot). That would likely include a much larger number than the few thousand primary voters who all but nominate the major party candidates in Iowa and New Hampshire. This virtual process will vote on a centrist platform and nominate a bipartisan ticket. The idea is that even if the third-party nominee didn't win, he would wield serious power in the '08 election, which will likely be close."

http://www.unity08.com/

5/28/2006 7:13:21 PM

5/28/2006 8:20:07 PM

paging DirtyGreek

5/29/2006 3:27:25 PM

was this a serious post?


i dont think it was.

5/29/2006 7:31:31 PM

i'm in favor of this idea

5/29/2006 10:15:18 PM

i thought this was about a ncsu mail sever

5/29/2006 10:19:31 PM

i'm in favor of this idea

5/30/2006 9:11:21 AM

IBTL

-ZiP!-

5/30/2006 9:26:33 AM