That doesn't matter, they have hundreds of thousands of members (probably millions), and only 3,700 seats. Simple math, they don't have enough seats for everyone.

If a third party earns my vote, they'll get it, but they have to earn it first. Rather than whining that people don't vote for them, they should be earning votes, not trying to get pitty votes.

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"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

Our delegate count was only 1000 (based upon previous electoral results). Soooooooo 2700 additional seats were provided for 'guest'
Only 652 delegates attended.
There was plenty of room for more.

If you are suggesting that we should have 'paid' for people to attend...that isn't going to happen.

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But are they actual members (as in registered, dues-paying members) or are they just people who've registered to vote that way?



So, even though Democrats or Republicans don't actually earn your vote, you'll prostitute your vote to them anyway?

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Based that it is one of the largest parties in our country (3rd), I would say that they have more than enough members (due payers).

First, you don't decide who has earned or has not earned my vote. Second, they've done far more to earn it than the LP has.

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Yeah, bankrupting our nation, subverting our Constitution, and undoing hundreds of years of Enlightenment political development generally earns the vote of a reactionary, big-government, mini-tyrant. When you're ready to join us in realityland, let us know.

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Clinton left with a surplus, I don't worship the constitution, and it's those that do worship the constitution that want to send us back 230 years, politically, economically, and socially. When you wake up from the past and come to the present, let us know.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

A surplus....after 100 years of Democrat and Republican deficits and debt. That's like overspending 11 months out of the year, ending December with $100 extra cash, and then claiming to be fiscally responsible.

I don't worship the Constitution, I respect it as LAW and worship the notion of ENUMERATED GOVERNMENTAL POWERS. Clearly the Constitution as written is insufficient to deal with modern questions of governmental policy, hence the AMENDMENT process. I like to see the government AMEND the constitution and THEN perform an action, rather than have them simply discard the document in the same of what is "necessary". If our government can ignore the Constitution at will, then so can I, and thus I can declare the power of Congress to legislate null and void. See how stupid that sounds?

Constitutional governance is the Mecca of enlightenment thinking. It restrains government and declares men sovereign entities, not bound to a lord or land not of their choosing. Government of limitless power is reflective of archaic thinking reminiscient of the Middle Ages, and Tsarist Russia. It is you sir who lives in the past, a past characterized by oppression, violence, and degredation.

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Careful, OE. That's how I got in trouble with everyone.....

Yeah, when you're only running the finances for december, and that month makes a positive, then you (as an individual) can claim to be fiscally responsible. Grouping people together by what dead people of the past have done is intellectually lazy.

That does sound stupid, but you make the assumption that every individual is completely sovereign. You choose to live under this government, then you choose to live under it's rules, whether you like them or not.

Says the person who admits to "worship the notion of ENUMERATED GOVERNMENTAL POWERS."

You can call yourself enlightened when you stop looking at labels like democrat and republican, and start looking at the actual people running for office. Until then, you are just as archaic as the slave owning founding fathers.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

(gets out of the way....) I warned ya.....