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To best answer your question I sincerely hope that a third party some day rises to prominance because I think our two party system are opposite sides of the same coin and we keep.our leaders which I feel do not really care what we want. The only time our leaders want to hear from us if we need to pay taxes or they need my vote. In short i do not feel we have a representative government because it has beaned turned into big business for politiciansHonest question for you, post election. And no, not intended to bash you in any way.
A s a 3rd party voter, and seeing the results of yet another election where votes are split among multiple 3rd parties, do you really believe a 3rd party will ever have a real chance at a major race, like governor, in Oregon?
As of now, with 91% reporting, 50.6% of Oregon voters voted for someone other than Kate Brown, that's more than voted for Kate Brown. Obviously, a majority of Oregonians, slim though that margin may be, don't want her. The problem is, these folks refuse to work together to bring that to pass.
One thing is for certain - Democrats have a tendency to back their candidate, to rally around them, even if they aren't their "ideal" candidate. They are in it to win, then sort out the details later. Outside of the Democrats, it seems folks are less concerned about winning and trying to send some kind of a message, a message which, I'm afraid to say, never gets received.
Imagine if all these folks were able to set aside their requirements for the "perfect" candidate, and focused, instead, on unseating Kate Brown and finally upending the one-party rule in Oregon, imagine the message THAT would send to Salem. They would have had to work with a Republican governor to get anything passed. There would have been a mandate to work together. Instead, they now remain completely unchecked. We can't stop them. Whatever they want, they're going to get it. Knute may not be perfect or desirable, but he could have brought some sanity, some parity to Salem. Unfortunately, that opportunity has been lost.
851,896 Oregonians didn't want Kate, 19,164 more than voted for her. Imagine if those who oppose her could have found a way to work together. That would have been a message that no one would have missed. Instead the message Kate got from this - she won by a landslide and now has a mandate to do whatever she wants. The future is not good for any of us.
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Maybe the only way we can expect them to start listening to us is to see a few heads roll. Maybe it's time to bring the guillotine out of retirement.