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The Party of Our Discontent? An Interview With Green Party Candidate Jill Stein | Truthout

I’ve been fighting as a third party candidate for ten years. I stepped up to the plate for this election, basically. I stepped up to the plate because it is a perfect storm for really organizing a political alternative, a politics of integrity that our lives depend on - and more and more people are seeing that.

Specifically, it was the debt ceiling debacle last spring when President Obama put Social Security and Medicare on the table: it really felt like, “How could we not put an opposition voice up against this? This is outrageous!”

Between the Keystone XL Pipeline debacle, the ozone regulation roll-back; expanding war - multiple wars, drones and drone surrogate wars - our “pull out of Iraq”; only to establish a new base in Kuwait, that we now have a new front in the war for oil in Central Africa; and the tripling of the troop presence in Afghanistan, it just felt like “How can we not have a voice of opposition here? This is nuts!”

Jill Stein (Likely Green Party Candidate) to Run First Federally Funded Campaign in US History

She has been to various occupations all across the country, and she says they were all opened the door to her. She almost got mic checked by some of the more anti-politician occupiers, but after listening to her speak for a few minutes, they were all like, “So wait, why are we mic checking her? She just said what we were going to say.” Many times she’s heard occupiers say, “Oh, wait, you’re just like us!”

She also plans to run the first publicly funded presidential election in US history. Check this out, to qualify for matching federal funds for the primary, she only needs to raise $5000 in 20 states. In the general, she can qualify for $20 million in public funds! Not bad, huh?

She encouraged and supported the efforts of Rocky Anderson’s Justice Party, as well.

PPP: Ron Paul Nearly Tied For First In Iowa

I don’t care if you’re a democrat, socialist, or libertarian. This is certainly a hell of a lot better than the other choices in the republican field.

A new PPP poll for the January 3rd Iowa caucuses has Ron Paul essentially tied (within the margin of error) for first place with Newt Gingrich: Newt Gingrich 22% (-5 from last week) Ron Paul 21% ( 3) Mitt Romney 16% (—) Michele Bachmann 11% (-2) Rick Perry 9% (—) Rick Santorum 8% ( 2) Jon Huntsman 5% ( 1) Gary Johnson 1% (—)

Ron Paul is the Only Republican That Beats Obama in Polls

Among all competitors for the Republican nomination, 2012 Presidential candidate Ron Paul has the best chance of defeating President Obama in a head-to-head race, according to a new poll.

The NBC News/Marist Poll reveals some interesting facts about the 12-term Texas Congressman’s competitiveness against Obama: President Obama defeats all GOP competitors except for Ron Paul in a hypothetical matchup; and 42 percent of registered voters in Iowa support Ron Paul and 42 percent back Obama, with 16 percent undecided; and Ron Paul leads Obama 42 to 35 percent among independent voters and attracts 15 percent of Iowa’s Democrats; and Ron Paul also leads Obama by 14 percentage points among voters under 45 years of age.

Shhhhhh....Ron Paul could win California and therefore the nomination - Washington DC Conservative | Examiner.com

The award for the best kept secret in national Republican politics would have to go to Ron Paul for the concentrated effort of mainstream media to discount him as being unelectable and therefore have justified a lack of fair treatment during the debates.

According to two Bloomberg polls released this week, he is not only in a 4-way statistical deadheat in Iowa, but he has now surged to second place in New Hampshire. There was also another Republican straw poll conducted in California, this one in San Diego, where he came in first again in that state by a significant margin (reported here). All California straw polls that I am aware of, Ron Paul has won by a landslide. This is a significant dynamic.

California is the largest electoral prize in our land. Any candidate that can win California in a primary has to be considered electable because its amount of delegates could make up for many other states’ defeats. So, if mainstream media ever admits that from all the California straw polls conducted, Ron Paul could win this huge electoral prize, it would not take a rocket scientist to figure out that he is very electable, indeed.