There are enough people who hate Trump but may vote for Stein or West or some other third candidate or not vote at all to perhaps move some swing states into Trump’s column. That could matter greatly.
Hopefully, West’s supporters will prevail upon him to undertake his fight in the most effective arena that currently exists, where the greatest light-to-heat potential lies – the primaries.
The Commission created in response to public outcry around the undue influence of big money ended up approving a program that will not do enough to reduce big money’s dominance, and abused its power in an anti-democratic attack on NY's minor parties
Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Carl Davidson have recently argued that leftists should work inside-and also alongside-the left flank of the Democratic Party to grow a new party inside the husk of the old one.
The Working Families Party has achieved its goal of flipping the New York State Senate — but now faces a threat to its very existence.
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