Election 2008

[Burning Giraffe]

There should be a sub-Forum for Chuck Baldwin. I can't stand the guy, but he's certainly a well-known third party player.

[Alonzo]

Thanks for the suggestion, but currently there isn't the demand for it. Looking at the Bob Barr forum only 2 people have made threads, myself and Osborn. Neither of us support him. In the Nader forum it's the same thing. I don't see Baldwin doing better, and even you say you don't like him.

There's a tradeoff between being fair and cluttering the site with unused forums. Nader, due to his name recognition and the requests we got, was added, but that was after debating the issue with both members and mods, and with the moving of Ron Paul to defeated. I don't see a Baldwin forum creating any real debate, and considering we already have two largely dormant 3rd party forums, I'm not inclined to add a third.

[Burning Giraffe]

That's cool. I'm surprised there aren't any Constitutionalists here. But, don't worry, I'll try to pick up that Bob Barr forum a bit. :)

[Pookie]

Well, now, that sounds interesting. I don't know a thing about Chuck Baldwin. I'll go Google him later and educate myself. Have you got sites you can point me to for now?
Purrs,
Pookie

[PatrickHenry]

I'd vote for Baldwin over Barr, but the CP isn't on the ballot in Hawaii.

I will not be supporting McCain or Obama.

[Burning Giraffe]

Well, now, that sounds interesting. I don't know a thing about Chuck Baldwin. I'll go Google him later and educate myself. Have you got sites you can point me to for now?
Purrs,
Pookie

Chuck Baldwin (http://baldwin2008.com/)

The guy is too "conservative" for my taste, but a lot of Libertarians are looking at him as a way to snub the LP over the Barr nomination.

[Rage]

Thanks for the suggestion, but currently there isn't the demand for it. Looking at the Bob Barr forum only 2 people have made threads, myself and Osborn. Neither of us support him. In the Nader forum it's the same thing. I don't see Baldwin doing better, and even you say you don't like him.

There's a tradeoff between being fair and cluttering the site with unused forums. Nader, due to his name recognition and the requests we got, was added, but that was after debating the issue with both members and mods, and with the moving of Ron Paul to defeated. I don't see a Baldwin forum creating any real debate, and considering we already have two largely dormant 3rd party forums, I'm not inclined to add a third.

Come to think about it, no one really posts in those other candidates threads accept for mindless news updates that can be found at any point and time when you turn on cnn.

[Osborn F. Enready]

I agree Giraffe. I think all valid candidates should have a subforum, especially after seeing the use the other major party forums get which is mostly just partisan blather and back and forth petty arguing about bias, rather than issues.

I also understand the site issues Alonzo, but have you or any mods solicited intrest for a Baldwin subforum?

While I have no intrest in voting for Baldwin, I think it would be great if each subforum had a sticky link to a NON-BIASED informational source for each candidate reflecting their voting records, platform stances, etc.

A couple decent sites for doing this are:

http://www.ontheissues.org/default.htm

http://politics1.com/p2008.htm


I personally fail to see how some of the other subforums outweigh informing people of their political choices, but that is just my opinion.