With the lack of any decent presidential canidates...

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Who would you nominate?

I nominate myself. No seriuosly I would nominate Ron Paul of Texas. He is one of the only GOP with the balls to stand up for what the voter wants/thinks.
 
Ted Poe, our congressman. He was a terrific criminal judge, and has been a very good congressman. And he's not as irritating as Paul :p

But then we wouldn't have a good congressman....

Springmom
 
I'm running...

Look at my signature, it's my own campaign!! I'm starting early... but in all honesty... John Stewart.


Epyon
 
lol so far this thread hasn't gone very well so I want to get in my joke before it's locked :p

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The Governator! (There's just that pesky matter of a Constitutional Amendment allowing naturalized citizens to run for President...)

Honestly, I'm not sure. If Badnarik doesn't try again, a new LP candidate (like Russo) might be pretty decent this time. Russo's only significant problem is still minor... he opposes electronic voting. All the current fiascos aside, electronic voting is clearly the future; while we may not have it working reliably and fairly yet, we need to work out the problems and get it working. It's amazing how many people only poke holes in current systems without contributing anything to the effort.
 
tyme,
Clearly the alternative is paper ballots. E-voting is definitely the wave of the future *but* it has no place in our elections until tampering becomes impossible.
 
To return to what Shotgun Minister was seriously asking about, I don't see any viable candidates out there.

Right now it looks like it's McCain or Guiliani for the Republicans, and Hillary, John Edwards, John Kerry or maybe Bill Richardson for the Democrats.

If that's the selection, 2008 may be the first year that I sit out an election.

Anyone who's serious about running would be positioning himself right now.
 
Clearly the alternative is paper ballots. E-voting is definitely the wave of the future *but* it has no place in our elections until tampering becomes impossible.
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Right, because tampering with paper ballots is impossible. :)

Once it goes through the machine and into the bin, you have no assurance that the machine counted it right, and you have no assurance your ballot wasn't replaced or eaten by a gremlin the moment you stepped outside.

Electronic voting, when implemented correctly, fixes those problems. People don't like e-voting because they don't understand it, and because the current peddlers of e-voting (like Diebold) have implemented it so horrendously that the current systems can hardly be called e-voting at all.
 
A much better voting systme in general is needed. My idea is to have people write down their top three choices and guy one gets 3 points guy two gets two poins and choice three gets one point, this way we can have third parties win more often.
 
That in no way shape or form is, was, has been a lawyer or wanna be Lawyer.
They need to be outspoken and somewhat opinionated so we know what their views are.
That the left thinks is to much to the right and the right thinks is wrong.
That was born with a genius's worth of common since.
 
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