A new CNN/ORC Poll again includes four presidential candidates. The poll was conducted September 28-30 and the results are: President Obama 47%, Mitt Romney 44%, Gary Johnson 4%, Jill Stein 3%, other/undecided (volunteered) 2%. The link includes many polls, but the CNN/ORC one is closest to the top. Scroll down a little bit to find the results for the 4-candidate question. Thanks to Mike for the link.
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Edited By Richard Winger
GJ at 4% nationally is pretty good for the LP.
Say for Jill Stein, 3% is pretty good!
If those numbers are true then that means 7% of America is not voting for the two party system.
Great that CNN included Doctor Jill Stein of Green Party. That is a full per cent increase for Doctor Stein in just a few days.
Doctor Jill Stein has video interviews out tonight on C-SPAN
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/DrJi
And Forbes Magazine has an Article on Doctor Stein, and video. Forbes reports they will be posting the full video interview with Doctor Stein.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2012/10/01/interview-with-green-party-candidate-jill-stein-part-one/
Another good showing for Gary Johnson and Jill Stein! Isn’t this like the second or third CNN poll that shows these 2 candidates doing relatively well in third party numbers??
@5 when Stein or Johnson hits 5% it will then be posted on National TV
http://www.fec.gov/law/litigation/hassan_dc_memo_opinion.pdf
the only poll that counts is election day, i predict that the final total for all third parties combined will be less that 2%
@3 – No actually a majority of Americans typically don’t vote for either major party. Not everyone eligible to vote registers, and then 40% of registered voters typically don’t turn out. It’s important to consider simply because elected officials in the US need to remember they don’t have anywhere near the mandate of a majority of their citizens. It’s also important because it can be something for a 3rd party to build off of – even capturing just 10% of registered voters from among those who otherwise wouldn’t turn out would be huge (& would translate to almost 15% of the vote).
The percentage of the vote doesn’t mean that much unless you know what percent of the voting population knows the candidate. For example if some body get .5% well that sucks if you look at the whole population. But a lot of 3rd party candidates aren’t known by the whole population. If a candidate gets 500,000 votes out of 1,000,000 voters who know them, suddenly the low percentage of the total population takes on a new meaning.
If GJ gets 5% will the Libs be eligible for a paid convention in 2016 ?
@11 – most likely “NO”. Both Houses of Congress passed bills recently to eliminate funding for party conventions. The bills were worded differently, so they go to a conference committee before being sent to Obama for a signature.
I’m surprised that Jill Stein is polling that high.
A poll that does not have Rocky Anderson is not really all that credible now- is it? Speaking of polls. check out the Minnesota US Senate poll. Now there are some interesting numbers.
Michael Cavlan RN
Candidate US Senate 2012
Minnesota Open Progressives
michaelcavlan.com