Myrmidonisia
13-03-2006, 20:41
It seems like I've heard that only 20 percent, or so, of likely voters are not firmly committed to a party. That doesn't seem like enough to make a third party anything more than a spoiler for one of the major parties, much like Perot and Nader were in past elections. Greenspan seems to think differently, however. The ideological divide must look bigger from inside the beltway.
http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/10/news/newsmakers/greenspan_book/index.htm
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Recently retired Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan believes that there will be a major independent candidate for president from the nation's political center, according to a published report.
In an interview with The New York Times about his post-Fed activities, Greenspan said he makes that prediction in a memoir, for which he recently got an estimated $8.5 million advance from Penguin Press, a unit of British publishing concern Pearson (Research).
Greenspan told the Times he plans to argue that the current "ideological divide" separating conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats leaves "a vast untended center from which a well-financed independent presidential candidate is likely to emerge in 2008 or, if not then, in 2012."
http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/10/news/newsmakers/greenspan_book/index.htm
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Recently retired Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan believes that there will be a major independent candidate for president from the nation's political center, according to a published report.
In an interview with The New York Times about his post-Fed activities, Greenspan said he makes that prediction in a memoir, for which he recently got an estimated $8.5 million advance from Penguin Press, a unit of British publishing concern Pearson (Research).
Greenspan told the Times he plans to argue that the current "ideological divide" separating conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats leaves "a vast untended center from which a well-financed independent presidential candidate is likely to emerge in 2008 or, if not then, in 2012."