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My Question for the Presidential Candidates

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Jim Wallis at God’s Politics asks for our input on questions for the Democrat Presidential Candidates at their Pentecost 2007.  I gave them the following question. 

Given that we have so many excellent candidates to choose from in the presidential primaries, what is the rationale for only allowing primary voters to vote for one candidate?  When you have several candidates to choose from, would it not be a simple amendation to the rules to allow primary voters to vote on behalf of at most three candidates?

I see it like this, I, like many Christians today, care very much about reducing poverty so when three top-notch candidates, like you all, support a truly significant reduction of poverty in the US and the Two-Thirds World, I would like to be able to vote for all three candidates.  Can you please call on all of the upcoming state primaries to allow us to vote for up to three candidates?  This would be a simple but significant change in our democracy, nothing more complicated like instant runoff voting. 

thankyou!

We’ll see if it (perhaps in a trimmed down version) gets asked.

I know that Hillary is currently in the lead, but I think that supporters of Obama and Edwards may be more likely to support each other, rather than Hillary.  And even if the party machines would be unlikely to make the change, it should still be part of a nat’l debate.  We most definitely could use better quality presidential candidates than much of what we’ve been given as of late…

dlw

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My Question for the Presidential Candidates
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  1. Boyd Jackson on May 12th, 2007 1:17 am

    Well-said. With so many candidates, it makes all the sense in the world to rank them in order of preference rather than just vote for one. There’s ome good info on this idea at http://www.instantrunoff.com

  2. dlw on May 12th, 2007 11:54 am

    Thankyou, but I’m not arguing for IRV, right now. I simply believe people shd be able to vote for at most three candidates.

    dlw

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