Reply #46: I always have to laugh

[FlaGranny]

at these totally self defeating threads. Dilute the vote - that'll help. Have any of these progressive candidates ever run as Democrats? If pure progressives (and pure is a very relative word - everone has their own ideas) had ANY chance in a state-wide Democratic primary, they would be foolish to run as third party candidates.

IMHO, if progressives were serious, they'd take over the Democratic party just like the neo-nut-cons took over the Republican party, but I'm not altogether certain that would be a good thing.

More important, in my book, is getting the money and lobbists out of politics, which would make all politicians a lot more honest.