Minor Party Only Election Series 1996

[nolesfan2011]

Now it starts to get a bit more fun, 5 choices this time, wide range of diversity in opinions and ideology. 5 days.

Centrist budget hawk and anti-free trade agreement businessman Ross Perot is back again with economist Pat Choate as his running mate, this time they have started the 3rd way Reform Party.

Consumer advocate and vigorous leftist reformer Ralph Nader is running on the enviromentalist Green Party ticket. Nader has Native American advocate Winona LaDuke as his running mate and he is running a liberal/progressive campaign supporting economic fairness in wages and the tax code, opposing NAFTA/WTO, supporting environmentalism, cutting the defense budget etc.

Free-Market writer Harry Browne is the nominee of the Libertarian Party, Browne is a military veteran, a near pacifist now, and an extreme free-market economist. His running mate is lecturer Jo Jorgensen.

Conservative activist and (Pat) Buchananite Howard Phillips is the nominee of the US Taxpayers party, which would later morph into the Constitution Party. Phillips worked in the Nixon White House and started the Conservative Caucus advocacy and lobbying organization. Phillips holds Pat Buchanan style views on Conservatism, is staunchly pro-life and pro-traditional family on social issues, opposes gun control, supports low taxes and deregulation, opposes immigration reform, public healthcare etc. He also opposes NAFTA and the WTO.  Conservative Christian Lawyer Herbert Titus is his running mate.

New Age scientist and researcher John Hagelin is the nominee of his Natural Law Party. Hagelin holds radical views on Physics and psychological theories, while politically Hagelin is across the map, supporting renewable energy, abortion rights and gun control, while also backing school vouchers and a flat tax. Hagelin believes in "world peace" and appears to be at least somewhat of a pacifist.


Easily Nader for me.

[Gass3268]

Nader

[TNF]

Nader

[Modernity has failed us]

Nader

[Supersonic]

US Taxpayers is too toxic for me, so Perot again.

[Peter the Lefty]

Nader

[Goldwater]

Harry Browne.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Go Perot!

[Deus Naturae]

Harry Browne.

[H. Ross Peron]

Nader

[Leftbehind]

Nader

[ElectionsGuy]

Harry Browne.

[Arturo Belano]

Nader

[morgieb]

Nader

[nolesfan2011]

final day bump though this one looks to be over

[Supersonic]

It looks like nearly all the rightwingers stayed home.

[nolesfan2011]

Nader wins 353 to 106 for the LP and 79 for Perot. Nader held traditional left win states comfortably and picked off a few right leaning states because of the split in the right wing vote.

1876: Peter Cooper/Samuel Cary (Greenback) 55.2% 222-147 Electoral Vote win
1880: James Weaver/Benjamin Chambers (Greenback) 50% 204-165 EV win.
1884: Belva Ann Lockwood/Marietta Stow (Equal Rights) 62.1% 211-160-30 EV win.
1888: Alson Streeter/Charles Cunningham (Union Labor) 60.7% 212-189 EV win.
1892: Simon Wing/Charles Matchett (Socialist Labor) 45% 208-143-93 EV win.
1896: John Palmer/Edward Bragg (Gold Democrat) 50% 243-204 EV win.
1900: Eugene Debs/Job Harriman (Socialist) 40.9% 243-146-54-4 EV win.
1904: Eugene Debs/Benjamin Hanford (Socialist) 56.7% 279-166-31 EV win.
1908: Thomas Hisgen/John Graves (Independence) 37.5% 288-171-49 EV win
1912:Teddy Roosevelt/Hiram Johnson (Progressive) 37.9% 357-174 EV win.
1916:Allan Benson/George Kirkpatrick (Socialist) 60% 511-20 EV win.
1920: Eugene Debs/Seymour Stedman (Socialist) 48.3% 364-103-64 EV win.
1924: Robert LaFollette/Burton Wheeler (Progressive) 63.3% 505-26 EV win.
1928: Norman Thomas/James Maurer (Socialist) 40% 332-163-24-12 EV win.
1932: Norman Thomas/James Maurer (Socialist) 40% 236-178-92-25 EV win.
1936: Norman Thomas/George Nelson (Socialist) 48% 301-175-52-3 EV win.
1940: Norman Thomas/Maynard Krueger (Socialist) 39.1% 257-234-40 EV win.
1944: Norman Thomas/Darlington Hoopes (Socialist) 63.6% 399-132 EV win.
1948: Henry Wallace/Glen Taylor (Progressive) 43.3% 342-148-28-10 EV win.
1952-1964: No election
1968: Eugene McCarthy (Write-In) 42.3% 415-114-6-3 EV win.
1972: John Hospers/Theodora Nathan (Libertarian) 42.9% 275-252-11 EV win.
1976: Eugene McCarthy (Independent) 37.9% 314-184-40 EV win.
1980: Edward Clark/David Koch (Libertarian) 38.9% 287-247-4 EV win.
1984: No Election
1988: Ron Paul/Andre Marrou (Libertarian) 59.5% 420-93-25 EV win.
1992: Ross Perot/James Stockdale (Independent)  72.4% 538-0 EV win.
1996: Ralph Nader/Winona LaDuke (Green) 60.5% 353-106-79 EV win.