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In reply to the discussion: We Need 3 Major Parties [View all]LuvNewcastle
(16,820 posts)39. I'd like to see publicly financed elections, not a penny
allowed from private donations.
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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