On April 25, a nationwide poll by Princeton Survey/Pew Research Center was released. The question was, “Some people say we should have a third major political party. Do you agree or disagree?”. 53% said “yes”.
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Edited By Richard Winger
I hope this pole gets nation wide publication
It wont matter anyway. The people are still going to say “I would vote for you, or I would vote third party, but you dont stand a chance so I am wasting my vote” If everyone who said that voted third party, they would win in a landslide
third parties always have a chance to win.
maybe not this election, but if their vote totals increase, maybe the next election.
A 2004 Badnarik poll conducted by http://www.RasmussenReports.com found that 19% of the people think the Libertarian Party candidate for president has a chance to win the 2016 presidential election.
# Vincent Darrah has a choice to say what ever he wants to, but I would throw this out for review.
Even if the party in question does not win, they can topple a target (President Taft, President Carter, President Bush 41, California Governor Gray Davis 2003) and or push an issue.
If the minority Republicans had not replaced the Whigs from 1854 to Lincoln’s Presidency in 1960 (and ran as the Union Party in 1864) (Slavery) Abolishion might have been taken up by an other ongoing entity.
The Democrats were so frightened of the Perot 1992 type rural anti corporate trust Populists of 1892, that they incorporated them (Fusion) but not their mentality, into the Democratic Party. Because the social conditions and irritations remained with out the ‘pressure release valve’ function of the ‘Loyal Opposition’ Democrats (yes, as much of a joke 115 years ago as the present day….) it was left for others.
Thanks to the up heaval of the 1901 Presidential assignation of William (any thing but a Progressive) McKinley, those Non Populists ‘others’ became Republican Mavericks Teddy Roosevelt (the only 20th Century President on Mount Rushmore) and Direct Democracy guru California Governor Hiram Johnson. They also got together in 1912 as the ticket for the Bull Moose Party.
Newt Gingrich’s 1994 GOP grab of the House was pure plagerism of Perot/Stockdale 1992! Hmmmmmm, not so use less after all?
Lots of people want a generic third party — which they assume would represent their own views better than the two major parties do. The problem comes when an actual third party appears, and they don’t agree with it, or the news media ignore it, or its candidates can’t raise enough money to compete effectively.
Lots of people want most of Congress voted out of office, too — they just won’t vote against their own Representatives and Senators, because they bring home the bacon.
It’s nice to see a majority finally coming around to agreeing with me.
I’ve been pitching multiple parties, and especially the Libertarian Party, for about the same number of decades as I’ve been pitching alcohol as fuel for internal combustion engines.
It’s way past time for some major changes.
Rally ’round, people, rally ’round.