Run-off voting. Can we get it now? What would it take to make it happen

[rainy]

before 2008? Maybe Kucenich could actually win.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. I cannot see the current entrenched politicians giving up their own mealtickets.

[rucky]

2. I suspect they actually LIKE raising money all the time.

I'd be sick to be a career politician and have to suck-up with my hand in other people's pockets all the time.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. But this is the system that keeps them in office.... It would be biting the hand that feeds them.

It would be like expecting Congress making laws to limit the powers of lawyers...they are all lawyers and would never do anything like that.

[CK_John]

4. Before 08 nothing, probably never unless you can get 50 states to change this voting laws. n/t

[John Q. Citizen]

8. It's a states perogative, just like fusion voting is. But the Dems and Repos conspired

long ago to game the system to benefit the two parties at all others expense.

Then when someone does run on a third party ticket all the partisans whine forever about how all the screwed up things are their (the third parties) fault.

Pretty nifty, eh?

Sure it patently anti democratic, but who ever claimed the Repos or the Dems were pro-democracy?

[Mojambo]

5. One small community at a time

We're decades away if at all.

The problem is that you kind of have to make an end run around the constitution to get this in national elections.

And as noted, you'll get ZERO help from elected reps of either party.

[superkia]

6. I just cant believe how many people that follow the medias lead,

and ignore Dennis Kucinich at all costs, very strange. Everyone wants change but only want to vote for the usual suspects, if you do the same thing over and over expecting a different result? Thats how bad its gotten, I just cant comprehend what has happened to everyone, including democrats?

[CK_John]

7. Humans have an anti change gene. I don't see any call for change, * would get in again if possible.

[DianaForRussFeingold]

9. IMO ,The only way Dennis Kucinich could win is Edwards/Kucinich

or Kucinich/Edwards...Edwards needs to counteract his poor voting record -- What better way!-- Dennis voted NO: Patriot Act, Wiretap, War In Iraq, Corporate Welfare, Outsourcing Jobs, "Guest" Workers, Discrimination, and Tax Breaks for the rich...
Dennis voted NO for all the other unconstitutional acts of the GOP...'On the record'