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[edit] Questions? Ask them through Wikinews

Hello,

I'm Nick Moreau, an accredited reporter for Wikinews. I'm co-ordinating our 2008 US Presidential election interviews. We will be interviewing as many candidates as possible, from the Democrats, Republicans, and other parties/independents.

I'll be sending out requests for interviews to the major candidates very soon, but I want your input, as people interested in American politics: what should I ask them?

Please go to any of these three pages, and add a question.

Questions? Don't ask them here, I'll never see them. Either ask them on the talk page of any of these three pages, or e-mail me.

Thanks, Nick -- Zanimum 19:46, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ron Paul

What is the reason for this reversion? Their site states that Ron Paul is their vice-presidential nominee. Synergisticalism (talk) 00:29, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

I also disagree with this edit, as the source cited is from January 2008 and thus way outdated, especially since the IGVA website's update a day or two ago notes the vice-presidential nomination has been switched to Ron Paul. Synergisticalism (talk) 02:16, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Temporary majority

Also, the use of the phrase "temporary majority" (see this edit) is somewhat biased. Is there any evidence that this majority was not an actual majority? Synergisticalism (talk) 02:19, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Since no one responded on this talk page, I went ahead and changed it. Synergisticalism (talk) 01:22, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 2007 elections

Most of the candidates listed pulled between 15 and 30% in state legislative race (the vast majority in 2 way races) Ron Fisher lost 81% to 19% Craig Ennis finished fourth in a four person race capturing 3.23% of the vote. Losing by a 50%+ margin (35D, 39D, etc) does not make these races notable especially when it is a two candidate race. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.102.16.147 (talk) 15:56, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

There's a blurry line of notability when you get into these types of elections. I think an argument could be made that for stability's sake (i.e. to avert the constant threat of removal of content, and edit wars over the same, given the lack of clear standards) we should just move much of the information here to another wiki. What options do we have? Is there a wiki for third-party-related stuff?
Bear in mind too that the vote count may not reflect actual voter preferences in multi-candidate races, as it could also be the spoiler effect at work. John B. Anderson also lost by a large margin in 1980 but is considered notable. Synergisticalism (talk) 01:11, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

John B. Anderson was a presidential candidate who also happened to be a member of "congress". Even if he had not run in 1980 he would still be notable and there is clearly no comparison between his substancial defeat and that of local candidates because he got six million votes. As for the removed election info several of the candidates that had been listed (the one's with higher %) were not in multi-candidate races but in two-way races.

If Michael Bloomberg and Ron Paul are to be the parties candidates in the fall why is there no source in fact all the "reliable" sources have quoted both as saying that Bloomberg is not running and Paul is not and will not make another third party bid. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.114.161.76 (talk) 09:43, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Bloomberg and Paul are placeholder candidates so the whole issue is not particularly important. Synergisticalism (talk) 01:45, 25 May 2008 (UTC)