In the end, Sierra said, Americans Elect blew an opportunity in a year ripe for a third-party candidacy.
The novelty and drama of Americans Elect is likely to transfix the political chattering class throughout the Spring and Summer.
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The case for Americans Elect is a polarizing two-party system that stymies debate and chokes choice that quashes voter involvement.
Americans Elect, a much-heralded internet-based project to find a third-party centrist presidential candidate to challenge the dominant two, has flopped.
"Honestly, I think if it was another candidate, a Mike Bloomberg, they would have been more comfortable with it, " Sierra said of Americans Elect.
Americans Elect now has over 400, 000 delegates, who will vote for a presidential ticket that will appear opposite President Obama and the chosen Republican candidate on ballots this November.
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This year Americans Elect, a movement to field a bipartisan presidential ticket against the main nominees, was well on its way to getting on the ballot in all 50 states.
He also invoked the bitterly disputed 2000 presidential election to argue that Americans should elect Obama in November.
But, although Americans sometimes elect politically untested tycoons as legislators, they rarely entrust them with an executive role.
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Besides, in November Americans may elect Barack Obama as president.
Americans regularly elect people based on their experiences overseas, namely soldiers, so it should not be such a stretch to vote in a diplomat: someone who spent his time trying to stop a war, not to win one.
While he has ideas about how to prevent this, I think given more time and freedom most Americans would elect to spend it in ways that the very same liberals who argue for 15 work weeks would find objectionable and wasteful.
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By far the biggest threat to the reforms, however, comes from the fact that Americans may choose to elect a president who wants to throw them out.
The poll suggests that Americans believe that the president-elect will remove all combat troops from Iraq.
One of us thinks Americans are too obsessed with weight to elect an obese president.
Four years ago young Americans came together and gambled big to help elect President Obama.
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It's about -- as President-elect Obama noted this week -- Americans learning to agree to disagree without becoming disagreeable.
If we are to avoid a far more dangerous international environment for Americans and their interests in the future, we must elect a president next year who has what it takes to pursue peace through strength.
"I also accept my responsibility, which I will discharge unconditionally, to honor the new president-elect and do everything possible to help him bring Americans together in fulfillment of the great vision that our Declaration of Independence defines, and that our Constitution affirms and defends, " Gore said.
This is not why Americans across the country go to the ballot box every other November to elect members of the House.
Once the American people elect a president, he or she is the president of all Americans, including Mitch McConnell and John Boehner.
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Worse yet, as Pat Caddell pointed out, the Speaker-elect is intent on entrusting to Rep. Alcee Hastings the chairmanship of what many Americans regard as the House panel with the greatest responsibility for our security at the moment, the Intelligence Committee.
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