You thought the Republican clown car was crowded, but you ain't seen nothing yet.

[merrily]

As a preface: This is in no way intended to support the Green Party or any candidate for POTUS who does not appear in my sig line. Because of a DU post I made implying Stein was this year's nominee, I googled to check* and found this info, which I thought might be of interest to populist reformers.

To preserve freedom of political expression, the electorate must be both free to choose and adequately informed. There are over 400 presidential candidates registered with the FEC for the 2016 election. Most of these officially declared candidates are marginalized or completely ignored by mainstream media and lack the benefit of unlimited spending by Super PAC’s.

We profile all official candidates, from all political parties, on a level platform. Some may be nutcases, but most are respectable individuals with legitimate positions on the issues. Any officially registered candidates not included may be fictitious, or have insufficient available information from which to build a profile.

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Word of mouth and today's web of social networks empower 'We the People' to promote a candidate more effectively than any media conglomerate, and subsequently scrutinize their every detail in thousands of national online platforms.

http://2016.green-party.info/

More at the link, including that they profile every candidate and we all should look at the websites of each candidate.

Ok. I am going to fess up right here and now that there is no way I m even going to glance at 400 websites, let alone study them. If that makes me a bad citizen, so be it. However, I think ballot access is an important populist issue, along with the principle of one person, one vote, which I posted about the other day.

So is media fairness. I want my candidate to win, but not because the media does not even mention most candidates once.

Any thoughts re: reform on either ballot access or media fairness. If not, just enjoy imagining 400 in that brightly-colored Volkwagon Beetle.