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In reply to the discussion: We Need 3 Major Parties [View all]octoberlib
(14,971 posts)33. We need complete campaign finance reform. Until we have that and politicians
don't have to depend on donations from the wealthy and corporations to run for office, it's not going to matter how many parties we have.
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The Tea Party Christian Right will never separate from the business sector of the GOP
steelmania75
May 2013
#4
You're overlooking the vast number of potential voters who are further left, waiting for ...
Scuba
May 2013
#76
The Winner-take-All system doesn't allow for a 3-party system in our government.
BlueCaliDem
May 2013
#22
How will that work with the electoral votes? Look at 1968 for instance.
graham4anything
May 2013
#27
You dont get it. You need 1 more than 50% of electoral votes to become President. Otherwise...
stevenleser
May 2013
#51
No, I mean "collapse into two-party systems, and stay that way". N.T.
Donald Ian Rankin
May 2013
#34
How many political parties there will be isn't a decision made by any "we".
Donald Ian Rankin
May 2013
#43
I personally don't think there should be any debates anymore. All they are is gotchas.
graham4anything
May 2013
#44
We need complete campaign finance reform. Until we have that and politicians
octoberlib
May 2013
#33
Teabaggers and conservatives are different from "republicans"? They are all the same: Republicans.
AlinPA
May 2013
#37
Corporations are only wiling to fund a two party system, so we're shit out of luck......
piratefish08
May 2013
#45
I was disapointed in Perot's pick of a senile VP, as well as his dropping out/in
markiv
May 2013
#57
I don't think that it's a matter of whether it would be worse or not............
socialist_n_TN
May 2013
#80
republicans will never let their bagger 'squidges' (R-word not mine)free,they're not done USING them
Sunlei
May 2013
#61
those are very good points- "everything republicans do is legal" by sunlei 5/2013 and........
Sunlei
May 2013
#67
Exactly. They made slavery legal and ensured it'd be damned hard to get rid of.
DevonRex
May 2013
#69
Canada has had three parties or more for 70 years. We are a liberal country. We've
applegrove
May 2013
#72
The reason the Koch's formed the Tea Party was to drag the Country further right.
Scuba
May 2013
#75
The system virtually locks in two parties, with change accommodated through primaries.
Jim Lane
May 2013
#81
What we need is reform of the system so that non-corporate voices can run and be heard.
woo me with science
May 2013
#85