Tuesday, April 30, 2024

RFK JR. MAKES CA BALLOT

By Bob Walsh


Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announces his vice presidential candidate in Oakland


RFK Jr. will in fact be on the California ballot this November with the American Independent Party.  This is considered by many people to be a right-wing fringe (lunatic ?) party.  

This will, however be I think eleven states that he will be on the ballot for.  He is polling right now at very nearly 20%.  The talking heads are asserting that the DNC is getting ready to collectively shit a brick over this.  In a five-way race right now Trump shows up as being Biden by 9%, though of course we do not have one national election we have about 54 local elections, if you throw in Puerto Rico, D.C., Guam, American Samoa and the dark side of the moon.

They don't seem to be able to convince him to back out, and they certainly can't FORCE him to back out.  A fair number of people, mostly democrats, would vote for a trash can with Kennedy written on the side in magic marker or lipstick if they had the chance.

Perot got close to 20% of the vote but zero electoral votes.  He did, however, pretty well queer the pitch for Bush 41.  Biden probably does not personally remember that but his peeps certainly do.

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