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<blockquote data-quote="RocksInMyHead" data-source="post: 77658523" data-attributes="member: 284142"><p>Name recognition. If you're successful as a mayor (and 3rd party candidates can absolutely win mayoral races in larger towns - of the three mayors on the list of Greens you posted, one of the cities has a population of 20,000 and another has a population of 30,000), then you can parlay that into a run for the local state legislature seat. If you do well there, that can be parlayed into a run for an administrative branch position (AG, governor, etc). The most important thing in local races is name recognition - if you get enough advertising out and meet enough of your constituents that they remember you, they'll vote for you. That requires a certain attitude, and it requires money.</p><p></p><p>The Greens are one of the more successful 3rd parties in the US, but they still don't do a great job of building a base - they tend to run about 300 candidates per year, which <em>sounds</em> like a lot, but there are <em>over</em> <em>half a million</em> election officials in the US. Not all of those are elected every year, of course, but there are somewhere around 150,000-250,000 elected positions up for grabs in any given election year, which means that the Greens are present in maybe 0.1-0.2% of all races nationwide. That's practically nothing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RocksInMyHead, post: 77658523, member: 284142"] Name recognition. If you're successful as a mayor (and 3rd party candidates can absolutely win mayoral races in larger towns - of the three mayors on the list of Greens you posted, one of the cities has a population of 20,000 and another has a population of 30,000), then you can parlay that into a run for the local state legislature seat. If you do well there, that can be parlayed into a run for an administrative branch position (AG, governor, etc). The most important thing in local races is name recognition - if you get enough advertising out and meet enough of your constituents that they remember you, they'll vote for you. That requires a certain attitude, and it requires money. The Greens are one of the more successful 3rd parties in the US, but they still don't do a great job of building a base - they tend to run about 300 candidates per year, which [I]sounds[/I] like a lot, but there are [I]over[/I] [I]half a million[/I] election officials in the US. Not all of those are elected every year, of course, but there are somewhere around 150,000-250,000 elected positions up for grabs in any given election year, which means that the Greens are present in maybe 0.1-0.2% of all races nationwide. That's practically nothing. [/QUOTE]
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