More 2016 digs

Coming off a big win in Tuesday’s primaries (though Ohio eluded him) Donald Trump is one step closer to clinching the Republican nomination, and plenty of GOP figures are horrified. On Thursday, national conservative leaders are meeting in Washington, D.C. to plot a third-party run against the front-runner—just so there will be a “true conservative” in the race. Others have discussed the possibility of launching an independent bid. In a comment late Tuesday night, Chris Matthews, one among many talking about the possibility, speculated whether Republicans could stop Trump by organizing a third party.

There’s just one problem: At this point in the race, it would be very hard, if not nearly impossible, to qualify a third party or independent candidate in enough states to come close to winning 270 electoral votes. This is not 1912, when Teddy Roosevelt literally left the GOP convention to foment the Bull Moose Party. Since then, the major parties have created regulations to make it harder for third party or independent candidates to launch credible bids for president. This year, there are many in the GOP who probably wish they hadn’t made it so hard.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/2016-donald-trump-third-party-213743

More 2016 digs

(CNN)When voters go to the polls Tuesday in the heavily Democratic state of California, they will see three words next to the name of Donald J. Trump: "Republican, American Independent."

That's because in the nation's most populous state, Trump is not only the Republican nominee but also the nominee of the American Independent Party, a political party that traces its roots to the late 1960s, when Alabama Gov. George Wallace ran for president on a platform supporting racial segregation.

"We think of [Trump] as our battering ram," Markham Robinson, the secretary of the American Independent Party, told CNN. "We don't like the way things are going in the country or in the Republican Party."

This is the first time in 76 years that a candidate for president has appeared on the California ballot as the choice of two parties – it has not happened since 1940, when Wendell Willkie was nominated for president by the Republican and Townsend parties.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/02/politics/trump-american-independent-party-california/index.html

Good grief, my user id…I’m going to go pray now…

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Strangely I’ve noticed friends & family (& myself too), have been organizing our houses more, getting rid of clutter, & fixing things that we have been putting off. Things are getting a little eerie but at the same time calm in some ways. I did say a prayer & included those on this board.