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You know what we need. A data driven approach to election programs. The primary goal should be to inform the voter how completely clueless they are about the options. One should know how shameful this is. An insult to democracy. There are lots of candidates to chose from and they all have their own program. Howabout you take some time out of your day to vaguely familiarize yourself with the menu before ordering? The second goal should be to further encourage the voter to stop screaming, sit themselves down and make an at least some what less uninformed decision. It's not as boring as it sounds. Some are truly colorful creatures.

https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_registered_2020_presidential...

Look at the un-notable candidates. Don't be afraid! I started by looking into Christine Weston Chandler and was not disappointed.

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Last time the green party had 100-250 views on the youtube videos. This is a reasonably well known party. Everyone less noted had considerably less. Some had so few facebook followers as to not account for friends or relatives. To me it means no one in the entire world bothered to look at anything on the list. People say they don't want to be informed by their facebook friends but secretly they don't want to be informed at all. You know who you are! Numbers don't lie!



It's worth noting that upstart successful parties like the Green Party in other countries start from the bottom up (local councils -> state representatives -> national office), because being familiar and having a track record is a great way to earn trust that you deserve the next highest position.

The US Green Party strategy seems to be to go for the jugular in the Presidential election, inevitably lose, and then fizzle out because there's no baseline party to fall back onto.


> Look at the un-notable candidates. Don't be afraid! I started by looking into Christine Weston Chandler and was not disappointed.

Are you sure "Christine Weston Chandler" is a genuine Candidate? A well known and somewhat controversial Internet figure shares the same name. Also, I am barely able to find any other information relating to someone with this name running for president. Might this be a troll candidate?


Yes, yes, yes and yes I suppose. Now lets look at Phil Collins https://www.prohibitionparty.org I'm buying a mug, looks like a great gift https://www.cafepress.com/prohibitionparty.513117792




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