This country needs a 3rd party

[Dave D]

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Too many people will not vote for a third party candidate because they feel there is no chance of the third party candidate winning and they do not want their vote to be "wasted".


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instant-runoff voting fixes this problem perfectly. Amazing that no one in the US has heard of it [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img].

wikipedia explanation

cheers,
-highland

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yeah we have. It's called the primary system.

The reason we don't have 3rd parties in this country is because entrenchment is good to a certain extent. You don't want random 3rd parties springing up, taking over [censored], messing it up, and then leaving.

Random examples include: Nazis, and Populists (the ones in the 1910-20 era).

More recently, a few years ago Le Pen actually managed to get past the first round in France. Yeah, a crazy, nut, racist type actually had kind of a shot at winning position of serious power. In this country we try to prevent that nonsense by making sure that only those that have proven themselves can get anywhere.

Making it hard to break into the system has it's advantages too.

A party has to prove itself worthy by slowly winning in the long run.