Los Angeles Times Article on Americans Elect

The November 20 Los Angeles Times has this article on Americans Elect. The reporter focuses on trying to determine the motives of the people who launched it, and on balance concludes that there is nothing conspiratorial about its origins, and that its backers have no hidden agenda to injure either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party.

The article, near the end, has an error when it says that the directors of Americans Elect can veto the choice of the voters in the Americans Elect primary. It says the directors can remove a ticket if it is not centrist. This is doubly in error. First, using the Ron Paul example that the reporter used, if Ron Paul won the Americans Elect primary and chose a Democrat for vice-president, then Paul’s nomination is guaranteed because the rules say a ticket composed of a Republican and a Democrat is “deemed” to be “balanced.” And even if Ron Paul won the Americans Elect presidential primary and chose a member of a minor party, or an independent, the directors could not veto that ticket on the grounds that it is not “centrist.” They could only scrutinize it to see if it is “balanced”, which is entirely different. Thus, if Ron Paul won the Americans Elect presidential primary and chose a registered independent (for example, Ralph Nader), that ticket would be evaluated to see if it is “balanced”, not “centrist.” Most neutral observers would probably agree that a Paul-Nader ticket is “balanced”, but not “centrist.”


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Los Angeles Times Article on Americans Elect — 9 Comments

  1. Great idea, a balanced ticket. It’s about time someone thought of this.

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  2. ANY genius media MORONS trying to determine the motives of Stalin and Hitler in the 1920s-1930s ???

    How many bodyguards would Paul need IF a Paul/Nader combo somehow got elected ???

  3. Obama = Romney = Perry = Cain = Gingrich = different puppets, same federal reserve/bankster masters.

    Gingrich = endless wives, endless wars, freddie-mac 1.8 Million $, medical mandates, 3rd world amnesty/welfare, TARP/bailouts.

    Cain = Kansas Federal reserve thug, “libya swirling in my head”, finger in panties, TARP/bailouts.

    Romney = commie medical care, racist quotas, bailouts, TARP, abortion, gun control, bloodthirsty war-lust, campaign funding by Banksters.

    Perry = Gardasil for little girls, free health/ education/house/food for 3rd world aliens, “niggerhead” on farm, “oops” in his brain, “bank-of-america helping him out”.

    End the wars/empire, end the federal reserve/IMF/World Bank/BIS, end UN/WTO, end racist quotas, end unconstitutional departments, end TSA/DHS/ADL/SPLC and other crime syndicates.

    Ron Paul will restore Sound money, strong national defense, liberty, free enterprise, local government, strong traditional families, western civilization.

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