Nearly 2 in 3 voters want someone else

by Erik Larson | August 20, 2008 at 06:37 pm
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WASHINGTON - A Zogby International poll commissioned by WND shows a surprisingly low 71.7 percent closely identifying with either of the two front-running, major-party candidates for president and a stunning 62.4 percent expressing their desire to see more viable candidate and party choices in future elections.

Unlike any other scientific poll conducted in 2008, this survey asked randomly selected respondents about their level of enthusiasm for presidential candidates and offered the actual alternatives to the major party candidates that will appear on most ballots across the country – as well as the option of simply not voting.

Barack Obama came in first with just 38.1 percent of the vote to John McCain's 33.6 percent.

A whopping 21.3 percent said they were still undecided – a remarkably high figure for this late in the campaign that ends Nov. 4. But another 7.3 percent indicated they would not be voting at all.


This is not even surprising, given Obama's support for projecting US military/corporate power around the world and warrantless wiretapping of Americans. Also, polling for decades has shown Americans are sick of the two party system. However, what are the options? In this Network Age, I think we may find or invent alternatives. We are no longer limited to corporate spin news, thanks to the internet.

Find out who's bankrolling the candidates:

OpenSecrets.org

WhiteHouseForSale.org

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at 07:41 on August 21st, 2008

Erik Larson, I like this story. It's good stuff.

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