Reply #31: I wish someone would graph out the value sets of the major groups to see where the most overlap is.

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Third parties don't seem to be able to organize their way out of a wet paper bag, just my opinion from local experience.

Nobody wants to commit, because they sense the DISTINCT possibility of being double-or-triple-crossed on nearly and dearly held values.

Although the election of President Obama has caused some ripples, at least the status quo offers some sense of being able to calculate the possible effects of issue coalitions.