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Selatius
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Sun Jun-21-09 01:33 AM
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there will be defections like in 1994. A lot of Democrats stayed home in 1994 because they felt they were being ignored in favor of powerful interest groups and also because of the passage of NAFTA with few provisions regarding labor protections.
Third parties can and do have an impact on the two establishment parties. Social Security was basically a rip-off of the Socialist Party's platform in the early 1900s. Roosevelt passed it not just because he felt it was right; he passed it in order to prevent mass defections from the party like how the Whig Party collapsed.
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