He will win again, he's the incumbent.

There would have to be another Ross Perot and republicans and the democrats have successfully colluded to avoid having a 3rd party represented in their debates.

This post was edited by Skinned on Jan 22 2020 05:37am

The two party system can be considered a one party system with two branches.

We had a nice law for the votes before 2012. It was a two round vote. In the first, every party candidate and independent people (who could manage to collect the necessary few thousand signs) was on the paper, and you could vote on anybody, even if he/she hasn't had a chance, your vote wasn't a wasted vote. This way small parties or indepentent candidates could flourish and grow fast. In the second round (the next week) Only the top 2 candidate was on the paper, and the first round was null and void. This meant if the first round winner wasn't popular enough or even unpopular amongst the smaller party supporters, they could back up the second candidate and win. This way, the winner always was backed up by 50%+1 votes.

In 2012 the Orbán regime changed it to a single round vote, and made the "recommendation note" collection more easy. Now they could make their own sattelite parties and copy their own signs, so the fake party can participate in the election. On the last election there were 23! parties on the list and 17 were just fake, business parties, made for collect the funding, and steal as many votes as they can from the real opposition parties.

Yang 2020

Did anyone notice how the media has been completely, 99.9% silent about him over the last 1-2 months?

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jan 22 2020 05:54pm

I think its the lack of contributions and all that. We need to get his name out there. Sure Yang is not for everybody. I can understand that. But he is the best damn thing to ever step into a political debate. Wish he had a better chance.

It's still invaluable that he has introduced the term and the concept of a UBI to the broader public at such an early point. Himself or others can pick up the mantle a couple of years down the line when the impact of automation has become more clear.

It would be great to witness how butthurt the media got with a Sanders/Yang ticket.

Why should they cover him? He failed to make the last debate and his campaign is over. Notice how they aren't talking about Michael Bennet, Tulsi, etc. either.

He was polling significantly higher than any of those though.

But not enough to really matter. He's on track to get zero delegates in Iowa because you need to hit at least 15% in precincts to get delegates. If Klobuchar doesn't hit that in some areas and doesn't get delegates, the media will stop talking about her too.