Get Ready for a Third Party Run from Bernie Sanders

Capt Walter Miller - Captain; If you want to be an "Independent" then you sometimes have to accept the fact that you aren't "one of the club and don't get any say in making the rules for the club".

If ANYONE can provide me with a rational explanation for why someone who IS NOT a member of a political party should have any say at all in the internal workings of that political party I would be VERY grateful.

CPO Bill T. - Chief; Generally speaking when one refers to "the majority" one means (at least) 50%+1. There hasn't been a poll taken (by a reasonably reputable polling organizations [not even if you include the polls conducted by FOX News]) in this election cycle that shows that (at least) 50%+1 of all Americans support Mr. Trump.

http://www.pollingreport.com/wh16gen.htm

COL Ted Mc - "If ANYONE can provide me with a rational explanation for why someone who IS NOT a member of a political party should have any say at all in the internal workings of that political party I would be VERY grateful."

Because people vote for you.

Capt Walter Miller - Captain; Are you, then, saying that ALL Americans should have the control over ALL political parties (even if diametrically opposed to the proposed platforms of those political parties)?

Or are you simply saying "All Americans that think like I do should be able to control all of the Americans who don't think like I do because I am right and everyone who doesn't agree with me is wrong."?

CPO Bill T. - Chief; Generally speaking, if you take everyone who doesn't want to see a particular candidate elected and then add on everyone who doesn't actually care who gets elected then you would have a majority of citizens hoping for that person not to win the election.

If "voter turnout" is 50% and one candidate gets 99% of the "popular vote" that means that there is still 50.5% of "the people" who didn't want that person elected. If "voter turnout" is 56.7% then a candidate would have to receive more than 88.18% of the "popular vote" in order to ensure that the percentage of "the people" who didn't want that person elected was lower than 50%.

Quite simply counting those who can't be bothered to make the effort to be counted is silly.