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Nevertheless, third parties will still be free to nominate their own candidates for office, if they feel that the mainstream candidates do not sufficiently represent their platforms. In fact, lesser-known candidates will greatly benefit from the increased visibility and importance third parties gain from fusion voting...
Unlike fusion voting, which will provide much more of a boost to third parties than third-party candidates, IRV will allow voters who would rather support lesser-known candidates to not have to settle for a candidate too moderate or extreme for their tastes. Instead, they could cast their first vote for the minority candidate but still have their second, mainstream choice count...
...Eric P. Lesser ’07, president of the Harvard College Democrats, said that he believes this trend is evident among students at Harvard...
...intensity and the breadth of the sentiment is one I’ve never seen in people. People who identified as Independents or Republicans now say they want Democrats to win,” Lesser said...
...replicate his stunning late-campaign successes on the stump in 2002 and 2004. But there aren't too many Republicans in the really hot races-that is, races that will be decided by moderate voters-who want to be seen with the President this year. Sherwood and, to a lesser extent, Allen need all the help they can get. The flip side of Bush's compassion-the adolescent petulance, the full-body defiance-was also on display. His support for those embarrassing candidates was similar to his unyielding support for the historic fiasco of the war in Iraq...