Notes:
Their method is: Organizers say it's the first time since the Civil War that a secession movement has fielded a slate of candidates for statewide office, although individual pro-secession candidates have run before.
And the kicker:
Few political observers give them much hope of winning, even in a left-leaning state
Although long known as a bit farther to the left than their neighbor to the south, Massachusetts, (one feels caught n a 1960’s time-warp), it goes without saying that Vermonters have an independent streak, which just may support this move – after all, Vermonters have been calling for secession for years, yet have not fielded candidates or a party that would give them a platform. They have one now. It is, of course, according to those ever present talking heads and unnamed political analysts, a given that these candidates will find no success; that said, one has to wait for the proverbial dust to settle next November. Pundits and the like (including this blog) make assumptions based on patterns, some lace those assumptions with a hefty dose of political ideology (see the Boston Globe/New Hampshire U.S. Senate Poll article released earlier this week with subsequent analysis), but in the end, it really is the people’s choice, and nothing is making that more clear than the 2010 general and special elections.
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