An analysis of the 2009 election results

The media in the international and American press are portraying the recent Republican Party victories in the New Jersey and Virginia governor races as a reaction to the economic conditions in America and a referendum on President Obama. Although there is some validity to this view, analyzing the election returns from New Jersey, it appears the incumbent governor was more hurt by his elite standing in society and status as an incumbent than to the economic conditions in New Jersey. Although the Republican Party spin-doctors and pundits most likely have been instructed to frame their victory as a referendum against Obama, the results of the election indicate that incumbent republicans along with incumbent democrats know the recent election has to do with voter discontent and frustration against the status quo. The time has come for a national figure like Warren Buffet or a George Soros to fund a national third party movement. Until more American non-aligned voters embrace other political parties other than the duopoly status quo in Washington, just as the last year has shown with the latest democratically controlled congress, there will not be any significant improvement for the average hard working American.

Some people may think the venture capitalist businessman Mr. Warren Buffet, the "Oracle of Omaha" and one of the richest people in the world, might be a strange choice to fund a national political party. However, the recent announcement that his company Berkshire Hathaway investment company will buy Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF), the second-largest railroad in America, for an estimated $34 billion, may be a clue that this man knows the secret to rebuilding America and putting millions of Americans back to work is with mass rail based transportation networks.

Even a member of the national republican party, Haley Barbour knows the importance of putting Americans back to work when he said that the reason the democratic candidates lost in New Jersey and Virginia was due to issues weighing on people’s minds such as jobs, transportation, taxes and spending,. Interesting that the leading republican who was once a member of the elite United States senate and is now the governor of Mississippi and the Republican Governors Association Chairman did not mention any social wedge issue like abortion, gun control, or gay marriage.

If a powerful man like a Warren Buffet or Bill Gates supported the creation of a third political party solely focused on the economic and constitutional woes the country was facing, there would be a serious shake up of the status quo in Washington DC and in every state across the county. A third political party needs to have a ten-point platform on what each candidate would agree to run on and these issues would have to be limited to financial and constitutional issues facing the country and not include any kind of controversial social or religious issue like abortion, gun control, and gay marriage. Those issues are the responsibility of the states and it is no area for a candidate running for congress with a third party.

Just as a leader of the Republican Party said himself, the four main issues voters care about are jobs, transportation, taxes, and spending. This is why it is essential that a third political party in America has a manifesto of the ten issues it will address if elected. Examples of some of the issues candidates from a third political party need to center their platform around include the creation of regional rail and light rail networks, this would easily address the issue of transportation. This essential platform issue would then easily overlap and help the candidates fulfill their next platform issue of creating 5 million new jobs in 5 years. Some other issues a third political party should have as a platform issue is a constitutional amendment to do away with the Electoral College, create an amendment to balance the budget, and to put America back on the gold standard. Due to the fact that is a public blog, no other more substantial issues will be discussed as to prevent agents of the duopoly system from taking these ideas and using them to their advantage.

The two party duopoly relies on each other to maintain the gridlock and blame game that has occurred over the last 150 years. A country as large and diverse as America surely has enough room for more than the two political parties. Perhaps with a more pluralistic representation in the political system, America could regain some of its dignity and core values that made it the great country it once was.

The Republican and Democratic parties in America have proven they are not capable of addressing the needs of average hard working American voter and it is time that the progressive and tea party segments of the American political system join forces to take their country back from the lobbyist-controlled members of congress.