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Quote by: bishop  the free state project is a joke as far as i'm concerned.. if it really made a shred of a difference, then NH wouldn't have a democrat as a governor - but it does.
as for MA... there's no libertarian on the ballot for our gubernatorial election. aside from republican and democrat, there's an independent (who was recently a republican under romney) and a green party socialist. in this case, i don't mind as much because i like the republican on the ballot..
but really, it'd be nice to at least have a choice for the house seat.. and all of the other local offices are almost completely uncompetitve except for the few spots where there's a green party candidate on the ballot - which tells me that nobody else is really trying to get on the ballot except the greens. |
The Free State Project is growing and you should not discount it as dead yet. It will take much more time than any of them realize, but I can't totally write it off as of today.
Mass and Conn are somewhat singular states. They are so small, with a concentration of Democratic voters, and in CT 's case, independent voters who vote Democratic, that the effort to mount a credible campaign against the entrenched Democratic representatives, can be cost prohibitive. It is absolutely fruitless to run against Edouard Kennedy, even keeping in mind he was involved in a negligent homicide, which he denys to this day. If manslaughter won't pre-empt him from holding office, nothing will. I would bet dollar to donut if you canvassed Mass on election day when Kennedy is running, you would be hard put to find many people who would admit voting for him. It seems to me the voters want to send the same guy back every year because of the seniority issue, no matter what kind of person he or she is in reality.
Then again, you can always write in a candidate also.