Nationally, more and more Americans are clearly disaffected with both big parties. Fully a third of New Yorkers who voted in the last two elections behaved as I did, voting for Kerry and Bloomberg. For me, what has happened politically in New York City stays in New York City.īut the thing is, in my political ambivalence I’m not such a freak these days. Yet my mayoral votes notwithstanding, I am not now nor have I ever been a Republican, and could never be unless the Lincoln Chafee–Olympia Snowe–John McCain wing of the party were to take decisive control, or hell freezes over. Each of those Republican votes felt a little less transgressive and weird. In the last four mayoral elections, I’ve voted for the Republican three times-Giuliani in 19, and Bloomberg last fall.
However, except for McGovern (I was 18 the Vietnam War was on his opponent was Richard Nixon), I cast none of those votes very enthusiastically. I’m nine for nine I’ve never voted for a Republican for president, like most people I know-and, I expect, like most New Yorkers. Introducing the Purple Party Building the Frankencandidate But Is a Third Party Possible? Ladies and Gentlemen, the Next President and Vice President…īefore I was old enough to vote, I worked as a volunteer for George McGovern’s presidential primary campaign, then voted for him in the November election, then for Carter (twice), then Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton (twice), Gore, and Kerry.
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