New York (un)Observer columnist Michael Thomas joins the chorus of NY press talking about a third party run in 2008 and says Michael Bloomberg is the perfect Third Party candidate - "how [he] has accomplished what he has, and the way he's done it, it's hard to escape the conclusion that he is, in fact, a one-man third party..." Hmmm.... unless you also see that it was the New York City Independence Party that put him in office in 2001 and garnered 75,000 votes and 47% of the black vote in 2005. Hardly a one-man show.... See Jackie Salit's "The Black and Independent Alliance".
Bad news for Dems in Oregon: In spite of the exclusion of independent voters (the Open Primary Initiative would help), Kulongski isn't getting support at the base and independent governor candidate Ben Westlund is coming after him from the left. Keep track!
- NH
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