College of Political Knowledge

2024 Election Series

Note:  I promised my friend John at https://limingslynkz8.blog/ that I would post on the  ‘No Labels’ movement and I try to live up to my commitments.

For awhile now there has been a growing (not exactly where) interests in the ‘centrist’ organization growing around the 2024 elections, the No Labels’ movement.

The group sounds like something we should embrace, right?

It is a con job that goes all the way back to 2010….it was formed after Obama’s election for too many were scared to death that a black man was president and this was to ‘counter’ any extreme policies he would attempt….and you guessed it I have written about it back then as well….

We Are All Centrists

Let’s be honest….the coming together of so-called ‘centrists’ is a fantasy….

There’s not a lot of love for the two-party system. Over the past decade, a majority of Americans have repeatedly told Gallup that the Republican and Democratic parties do such a poor job representing the American people that the country needs a third party.

Given the dissatisfaction with the broader political environment, and with the 2024 Democratic and Republican front-runners specifically, the political group No Labels has come up with a solution. It has laid out plans for what it calls an “independent unity ticket,” which it hypothesizes could collect 286 electoral votes, winning states ranging from reliably red Utah to deep-blue Hawaii.¹ The group, which lobbies for political centrism and bipartisanship, argues such a ticket could win by turning out and garnering support from the sizable share of voters who say the country is on the wrong track, identify as independent and are open to supporting what No Labels describes as a “moderate independent” contender. While No Labels has said it won’t back a bid if there’s no path to victory — and third parties have a lengthy track record of failure — it’s currently trying to gain ballot access in all 50 states. Democratic-aligned groups are clearly worried, criticizing No Labels for being a potential “spoiler” that could help former President Donald Trump win by peeling away middle-of-the-road voters who might otherwise back President Biden.

No Labels Is Chasing A Fantasy

In other words do not fall for this manure….but just look at who is funded this so-called ‘centrists’ rival….

Founded in 2009, No Labels has for more than a decade peddled the familiar notion that the majority of Americans are political centrists, despite numerous polls showing that people in the U.S. broadly support progressive policy proposals such as Medicare for All, higher taxes for the wealthiest Americans, and universal childcare.

While claiming to represent the interests of most voters, No Labels’ mission statement suggests that those ideas are embraced only by “the extreme.”

More Perfect Union‘s investigation into who has poured money into the organization shows how No Labels has depended heavily on corporations and billionaires who benefit from sidelining popular proposals aimed at helping working people.

The group “followed a money trail,” said reporter Andrew Rivera, “to discover a deeper story about who is behind No Labels and what’s really in it for them.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/no-labels-funded-by-billionaires

Even though this a a massive con job could it influence the 2024 elections?

The way the 2024 race is shaping up, a rematch between former President Trump and President Biden looks like a smart bet. With polls suggesting that lots of Americans aren’t happy about that potential choice, a nonprofit group called No Labels continues to generate attention. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the group bills itself as a centrist alternative to both parties and is currently trying to qualify for the ballot in every state. No Labels says it will run a third-party candidate, but only if it decides that such a candidate would have a viable chance. (Joe Manchin has not ruled out the possibility of running on the ticket.) The prospect has Democratic and liberal groups alarmed because they see such a campaign ending in only one way: a victory for Trump.

“It is a spectacular combination of hubris and irresponsibility at a level that I have trouble even believing,” Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson tells the newspaper. “They’ve made a financial and personal decision to destroy Joe Biden.” At the New Republic, Tori Otten looks at the history of third-party candidates and draws a similar conclusion: “If No Labels persists, it could end up giving Trump an easy win.” In an essay at the Hill, however, No Labels co-founder David Walker says the talk about the group becoming a spoiler that works in favor of Trump is off base.

“They continue to ignore the fact that No Labels has made it clear that it will not offer a third option if there is no path to victory in the Electoral College,” he writes, adding that the decision won’t be made until next spring. “No Labels has the ability to pull the plug on a third option several months before the election if the path to victory evaporates.” The group says any such candidate would draw from both Republicans and Democrats, though an analysis at FiveThirtyEight suggests the group is dramatically overestimating its chances.

If you want more about this ‘unity’ ticket bullshit then here is a post about such a thing…

Former Sens. Joe Lieberman and Doug Jones appeared Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” to debate the viability of a bipartisan third-party presidential ticket in 2024 — and whether that effort could serve as a spoiler in the race for the White House.

Lieberman, a Democrat-turned-independent who represented Connecticut, is the founding chair of No Labels, which is preparing a possible “unity” ticket that would include both parties and offer, he said, another option for those voters dissatisfied with a potential rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

“We’re in this to give the majority of the American people who feel that the major two parties are failing them a third choice, both in policies, such as we’re going to release in New Hampshire [on Monday], but also possibly in a third candidate,” Lieberman told “This Week” anchor George Stephanopoulos. “And we’ve been very explicit … If the polling next year shows, after the two parties have chosen their nominees, that, in fact, we will help elect one or another candidate, we’re not going to get involved.”

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/joe-lieberman-doug-jones-face-off-labels-chances/story

What malarkey!

In short if you feel you are an independent then be a true independent and vote for the person that represents your core beliefs….not for someone just because you do not like the ‘other guy’.

Before I could finish this post more news came out on this group….

If the No Labels political movement fields a ticket in the 2024 presidential election, its goal will be to win, former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said Sunday, not to split the vote in a doomed effort that results in President Biden losing. “Nobody’s trying to spoil anything,” the Republican said on CBS’ Face the Nation. “This is about actually receiving a majority of the votes.” No Labels has received criticism to considering a presidential run that could again make Donald Trump president, which the Hill reports would conflict with the organization’s stated mission.

“I think we should only put together a ticket in the event that it’s Trump and Biden,” said Hogan, who added he’s working “to make sure we can get a good Republican nominee.” If that happens, he said, a No Labels ticket would be “no longer necessary.” Election law would require the organization to release information about its donors, per CBS News, which has remained a mystery—other than Harlan Crow, who’s also a backer of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Hogan said he hasn’t ruled out being on a No Labels ticket.

In short No Labels is a con job….plain and simple.

If you are thinking of a change in voting please read this before you truly waste your vote on this fairy tale.

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