GAZETTE'S 'SPOILERS' EDITORIAL IS POLITICAL BIGOTRY
August 19, 2014
Fourteen years after the debacle that was the 2000 presidential election, isn’t it time for Democrats to admit that Green Party candidate Ralph Nader did not “put the Republican Bush-Cheney ticket into the White House"?
The United States’ political system is among the most anticompetitive of any Western democracy, due largely though not entirely to the major parties’ deliberate efforts to exclude competitors.
Attorney General Holder should demand that the parties stop suppressing voter choice, which Republicans and Democrats both do by using legal technicalities to force qualified candidates off the ballot.
The state's courts have shut out minor-party candidates by allowing Republicans and Democrats to collect large money judgments from anyone who attempts to challenge the major parties.
