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Look at what the internet did for Ron Paul. More people make individual small donations to candidates online. The more this grows, the less each candidate will
by MichaelApproved 15y ago
Look at what the internet did for Ron Paul. More people make individual small donations to candidates online. The more this grows, the less each candidate will rely on a formal party to get them elected. Hopefully this will allow them to splinter off into smaller political parties.
- philwelch 15y agoRon Paul got less than 1% of the vote.
- iamdave 15y agoThat's still a large number of people, and his name still reached critical acclaim during the primaries. The projection made wasn't about resulting presidential elections, it was about a permeating balkanization of political lines.
- philwelch 15y agoThere were fringe candidates before the Internet, too. Many of them were more successful than Ron Paul.
- a3camero 15y agoMay I suggest: Ross Perot @ 19%: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot_presidential_campaign,_1992 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot_presidential_campaig... Ralph Nader @ 3%: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader_presidential_campaign,_2000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader_presidential_campai...
- philwelch 15y agoJohn Anderson, 7%: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Anderson#1980_Presidential_campaign http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Anderson#1980_President... George Wallace, 14% and 46 electoral votes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace_presidential_campaign,_1968#General_election_results http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace_presidential_cam... Eugene V. Debs, 3% three times and 6% once: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs