NPR talks third parties

I hate the term third party, it lumps all the parties that are not Republicans or Democrats in one group. However, it is a term people understand until we make a choice as American's to support more than one party two parties. None the less, NPR had a piece about what is happening outside of the "major" parties.

In this piece they talk about Cynthia McKinney, Ralph Nader and Michael Bloomberg. They also talk about the possibility of Ron Paul running as a 3rd party candidate.

NPR Democratic Debate

I've posted about both CNN/YouTube debates for both the Democratic and Republican parties. This past Tuesday, the Democratic candidates did a radio debate. A little different than what we've been used to in the television age. Being different, it's a good listen. You can even download it as an MP3. I had to do a little searching to find the transcripts and audio to listen to it online but here you go:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16898435 ...

A nice quote from Denis Kucinich early on

See, when people say all options are on the table, as the three senators have, they actually encouraged President Bush and licensed his rhetoric.

And a later quote from Senator Christopher Dodd, that speaks to something I've written about several times in this blog:

We have so benefited as a result of people who have come here because of religious, political persecution, seeking a better life for their families. This has been a great source of strength for our country. We need to work with it, obviously be practical about it. But this is a source of pride in our country, not something to be talked about in negative terms.