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NEWSWEEK: Independent Online Political Party Unity08 to Launch This Week; Plans '08 Internet Primary to Vote on Centrist Platform, Bi-Partisan Ticket
29 May 2006 A bipartisan group of political organizers will open shop this week at Unity08.com in an effort to redesign our current system for nominating presidential candidates, reports Senior Editor Jonathan Alter in the June 5 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, May 29). The Unity08 plan is for an online third-party convention in mid-2008, following the early primaries. Any registered voter could be a delegate; their identities would be confirmed by cross-referencing with voter registration rolls (which would also prevent people from casting more than one ballot). That would likely include a much larger number than the few thousand primary voters who all but nominate the major party candidates in Iowa and New Hampshire. This virtual process will vote on a centrist platform and nominate a bi-partisan ticket.
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The Internet-based third party is spearheaded by three veterans of the antique 1976 campaign: Democrats Hamilton Jordan and Gerald Rafshoon helped get Jimmy Carter elected; Republican Doug Bailey did media for Gerald Ford before launching the political tip sheet Hotline. They are joined by the independent former governor of Maine, Angus King, and a collection of idealistic young people who are also tired of a nominating process that pulls the major party candidates to the extremes. Their hope: to get even a fraction of the 50 million who voted for the next American Idol to nominate a third- party candidate for president online and use this new army to get him or her on the ballot in all 50 states. The idea is to go viral-or die. "The worst thing that could happen would be for a bunch of old white guys like us to run this," Jordan says.
The idea is that even if the third-party nominee didn't win, he would wield serious power in the '08 election, which will likely be close. There are plenty of ways for this process to prove meaningless, starting with the major parties deciding to nominate independent-minded candidates like John McCain or Mark Warner. Third-party efforts have usually been candidate-driven, and the centrist names tossed around by way of example (Chuck Hagel, Sam Nunn, Tom Kean) don't have much marquee value in the blogosphere. And the organizers would have to design safeguards to keep the whole thing from being hijacked. But funny things happen in election years, writes Alter. In a country where more than 40 percent of voters now self-identify as independents, it's no longer a question of whether the Internet will revolutionize American politics, but when. (Read entire story at http://www.Newsweek.com. Click "Pressroom" for news releases.)
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