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In reply to the discussion: LGBT activist Robert Pinter-"the fringe left is just as strident as the tea party on the right" [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)the fringe candidates on the right ARE REPUBLICANS and all will vote for Jeb Bush in 2016
the fringe 5% of the voters on the left, are NOT wanting to vote for Hillary, therefore, their votes could like in 2000, throw the election to the Bush family.
all the right candidates are on the same wavelength.
Ron Paul was NEVER NOT a republican.
However, David Duke, a democrat in name voted for republicans time and again, as did
George Wallace steal democratic votes.And Nader's votes all were against democratic ticket in 2000.Same with John Anderson in 1980. Same with any third party candidate in a nation which is NOT Israel, Canada or the UK which has a totally different system than ours (and we fought a war to get away from the UK, last I heard).
So the two models don't equal one.
Dennis Kucinich now works for Fox and Ron Paul's thinktank.
All he does is get people to see Fox and Ron Paul's viewpoints, which are votes for the republican party.
So, though the fringe extreme equals about 20%, the perceptions never add ONE democratic vote, they take away one for one, a democratic vote.
simple math.