[Campaigns-l] Re: US-only or international?

[Chad Lupkes]

That's a good question, and a good goal.  My opinion is that this type of
information is more appropriate in the electoral reform wikia.  The most
frustrating part of all of this is that people are coming to this one single
wikia with all their ideas, probably because Jim was able to promote this
one where the others didn't do any promotion at all.  Take a look at the
Politics Portal on Wikia.com's main site and you'll find a few dozen sites,
some that get attention, some that don't.  I think using the campaigns wiki
to specifically track campaigns around the US and around the world,
including names, issue positions, links to the rest of the Internet, News
about the campaigns, etc. is great.  But getting into every other political
subject on one single wikia without taking advantage of the true potential
of the wikia.com resources would be a shame.

To that end, I'm thinking of linking to the Politics:Portal page on the main
wikia on the Campaigns main page.  Does anyone have objections to this?

Chad


On 7/7/06, Jack Stewart <jackguy at newsguy.com> wrote:
>
>  Chad Lupkes wrote:
>
>  I strongly believe that the only differentiation we need is by language.
> I'd love to learn more about races in the UK, Canada and Australia.  And we
> need a place for spanish speaking people to talk about US elections.
>
> My primary interest is the rules of our U.S. democratic government.
> Particularly as compared to other nations, or to changes over time. How
> would I fit into Campaign Wikia?
>
> -----------------------------------
> ONE EXAMPLE of the type of material I am interested in learning more about
> and also publicly disseminating.
>
> The U.S. does not have any national political parties.  At least not as
> defined as an organization that can decide if a politician can run under
> it's name. That is a requirement if a political party wishes to enforce a
> party platform.
>
> Most state laws enforce nomination by primary election. However the power
> of state parties to control who gets on the primary ballot varies.
>
> In New York, someone named Jonathan Tasini is planning on running in the
> Democratic primary for U.S. Senator.  He hopes to be running against
> Hillary Clinton.  He mentioned, on his blog, that he would need 10,000
> signed and approved petitions to get on the primary ballot.  That made me
> start wondering if Hillary Clinton would need 10,000 petitions.   I had my
> doubts.  When I started asking questions, Richard Winger, the editor of Ballot
> Access News, replied that "*In New York  someone who gets at least 25%
> endorsement at the state convention can get on the primary ballot with no
> petitions.*"
>
> Wouldn't it be nice to know the power of the state parties in all the
> states.
>
> Jack
>
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