g5000
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I said I welcome a new MAJOR party.We have 3rd parties, Green Party, Libertarian Party, ect. In fact, we've had dozens of third parties, yet not one third party candidate has every occupied the White House. Also Third Party members rarely win congressional seats.As I watch the two major parties cater more and more to the fringes, it is just a matter of time before a new major party comes along which caters to the intelligent, critically thinking people who have rejected both of the current major parties.
I cannot wait for that day.
As we watch billionaires toy with the idea of running as independents, it is just a matter of time before some of them pool their money to supply the necessary resources to get a new major party off the ground.
Then we can truly make America great again. Then it will be a new morning in America.
There're several reasons why there are no strong third parties.
First being the chips are stacked against any third party in congressional elections. For example, a third party might will 20% of congressional vote but unless they win majorities within the state, it gets no representation in congress.
Second, if a third party hit's on a message that's a winner with the public, the two major parties will incorporate that message into their platform. Just about ever major issue championed by Ross Perot was incorporated in the platforms of at least one of the major parties within two election cylces.
Lastly, just as with Congressional voting, the winner take all scheme makes it very difficult for third party presidential candidates. Electoral votes are given to whomever has the largest plurality, so getting 50+ percent of the vote in a given state or 40 percent in a three-way race are effectively the same.
When looking at polling for president there is always a strong vote for Other. However, in an election once a name and face replaces Other, those numbers disappear.
It's as if the founders really wanted a two party system to the exclusion of a multi-party system.
The current third parties are comprised of propellerheads. They propound crackpot ideas and are further from sanity than even our fucked up two major parties.
That's why they are so tiny. Not because of some conspiracy, but because of their own idiocy.