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Question: For President and Vice President
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President Mario Cuomo (P-NY)/ Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (P-CA)
 
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Mr. Patrick J. Buchanan (A-VA)/ Congressman Bob Dornan (A-CA)
 
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Senator Richard Lugar (NL-IN)/ Senator Arlen Specter (NL-PA)
 
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Vice President Ross Perot (R-TX)/ Governor William M. Clinton (R-AR)
 
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« on: October 01, 2015, 05:19:07 PM »

Perhaps the greatest surprise of the primary cycle was the nomination of Patrick J. Buchanan, who upset early front-runner and elder statesman Richard Lugar of Indiana to win the American Party primary by the narrowest of margins. A strident social conservative who served in the Administration of Phillip Crane, Buchanan rallied Christian fundamentalists and fiscal hawks to his banner with cries of vengeance against the Washington machine and political cronies everywhere. If elected, Buchanan has promised to vastly diminish the size of government, repeal the Abortion Legalization Act, and cut welfare spending in half.

Enormously popular with religious conservatives, Buchanan has struggled to win over moderates and business conservatives within the American Party, who contend that the Virginian activist is not only inexperienced, but a bigot and an extremist. These individuals, supported by much of the party establishment, have formed the center-right National Liberty Party, which has chosen Senator Lugar as its candidate for president. A coalition of self-described "fiscal and social moderates", the party has drawn comparisons to George Romney's 1968n Independent campaign, a correlation Lugar and his supporters have embraced.

The People's Party, meanwhile, is similarly divided. The coalition of rural populists and New England liberals that elected Mario Cuomo four years ago is under duress: while Cuomo remains popular with the party at-large, a small but growing faction within the party is increasingly distrustful of the president and his policies. Much of the tension is regional rather than political: an east-coast social liberal, Cuomo is a poor fit for rural, socially conservative Populists in the South, and his failure to roundly condemn free trade agreements1 has left some labor advocates unsettled. These voters supported Arkansas Governor William M. Clinton in the primaries, giving him roughly 26% of the vote, and have since formed the rival Reform Party to challenge Cuomo, with Vice President Ross Perot as their presidential nominee.

Despite his divided party, President Cuomo has entered the fall campaign swinging, highlighting his success in balancing the budget, strengthening the welfare state, and reversing a decade of economic malaise and charging that his opponents, particularly Perot and Buchanan, are "candidates of the last generation" who will take the country backward, not forward. To replace Perot, Cuomo has selected Californian Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi as his running mate, who if elected would become the first female vice president since Margaret Chase Smith.

Who will emerge victorious from this momentous contest? The choice is yours.
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« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2015, 06:00:21 PM »

Well, this will be fun. I'm supporting Cuomo's re-election, but Perot winning wouldn't be too bad. Or even Lugar.
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« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2015, 07:33:07 PM »

The People's Pat for President!!!!
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« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2015, 07:33:50 PM »

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« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2015, 07:37:11 PM »


how dare you besmirch the good name of pat quinn
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« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2015, 07:37:21 PM »

Please, let's not be boring and reelect Cuomo.
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« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2015, 07:40:44 PM »

Perot, just I had voted in '88 Primaries.
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« Reply #7 on: October 01, 2015, 07:58:06 PM »

I don't care if I'm boring, Cuomo is the correct choice.
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« Reply #8 on: October 01, 2015, 08:05:26 PM »

Holding my nose and voting for Cuomo.
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« Reply #9 on: October 01, 2015, 08:28:11 PM »

Buchanan.
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« Reply #10 on: October 01, 2015, 09:54:26 PM »

Lets make things interesting - Buchanan.
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« Reply #11 on: October 01, 2015, 11:08:29 PM »

Buchanan, I guess. I miss Pete Wilson from the primaries, who I voted for.
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« Reply #12 on: October 01, 2015, 11:42:41 PM »

Lets make things interesting - Buchanan.
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« Reply #13 on: October 01, 2015, 11:45:14 PM »

I don't see what's so "interesting" about conservative nutjobs winning. We've had plenty of those in past elections.

In fact, it seems that after TR the only American candidates who got elected were the most extreme ones. Lugar winning would actually be more original.
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« Reply #14 on: October 02, 2015, 12:19:22 AM »

I don't see what's so "interesting" about conservative nutjobs winning. We've had plenty of those in past elections.

In fact, it seems that after TR the only American candidates who got elected were the most extreme ones. Lugar winning would actually be more original.

I guess Atlas currently has a hard-on for protectionism.
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« Reply #15 on: October 02, 2015, 08:44:54 AM »

I don't see what's so "interesting" about conservative nutjobs winning. We've had plenty of those in past elections.

In fact, it seems that after TR the only American candidates who got elected were the most extreme ones. Lugar winning would actually be more original.

I guess Atlas currently has a hard-on for protectionism.

And loving it!
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« Reply #16 on: October 02, 2015, 08:45:36 AM »

1. Pat
2. Ross
3. Lugar
4. Cuomo

Voted for Buchanan.
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« Reply #17 on: October 02, 2015, 10:16:19 AM »

Don't like his strong support of gun control, and don't agree with him on LGBT issues, but Lugar is the best.
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« Reply #18 on: October 02, 2015, 08:14:22 PM »

I don't see what's so "interesting" about conservative nutjobs winning. We've had plenty of those in past elections.

Exactly. Every president in the last 40 years has been either a strident progressive (Kefauver, McGovern, Church) or a strident conservative (Bricker, Goldwater, Kemp, Crane). Buchanan would be a return to the status quo.
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« Reply #19 on: October 03, 2015, 10:21:59 AM »

On the bright side, this might be one of those House Vote elections given the lack of a majority in popular and likelihood of no majority in the Electoral College.
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« Reply #20 on: October 03, 2015, 10:30:20 AM »

Lugar would be better, but strategically, this is the only option:
Holding my nose and voting for Cuomo.
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« Reply #21 on: October 03, 2015, 05:49:46 PM »

A great day for America!
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« Reply #22 on: October 03, 2015, 05:59:28 PM »

I don't see what's so "interesting" about conservative nutjobs winning. We've had plenty of those in past elections.

Exactly. Every president in the last 40 years has been either a strident progressive (Kefauver, McGovern, Church) or a strident conservative (Bricker, Goldwater, Kemp, Crane). Buchanan would be a return to the status quo.

It should say something that the only conservatives capable of winning in these elections are hardliners instead of moderates, often on the backs of strategic voters.
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« Reply #23 on: October 03, 2015, 06:14:41 PM »

I forgot to vote, and this happens.

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« Reply #24 on: October 03, 2015, 06:17:34 PM »


Did you make that, or is that an actual button?
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