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June 28, 2006

A Political Party By Any Other Name

by AltHippo @ 1:36 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

I was reading this article on the upcoming elections in Mexico, and couldn’t help but notice this line: (emphasis mine)

As the election approaches, opinion polls give the candidate of the Party of Democratic Revolution a slight lead over Felipe Calderón of the governing centre-right National Action party.

I don’t know enough about the candidates to comment, but will say those party names sound way cooler than Democratic and Republican. Way cooler. Could it be that part of the relative complacency of American voters is a result of the blase names? Isn’t there something about the elephant and the donkey party icons that screams out, or more to the point, mumbles, politics as usual?

I did some poking around and thought, of registered American political parties, these were the coolest I’d run across:

Aloha Aina Party, Action 4 Justice Party, Marijuana Party, Personal Choice Party, Pirate Party USA, Rent is Too Damn High party, and finally the We the People Party.

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