The Green Party of the United States.The Nations first National 3rd Party.

[wanderingbear]

http://www.gp.org
Well the Greens got it.. National Status. the first 3rd party in U.S. history to do so..The Greens may sill be small But their now one of the Major parties.We are now offcally a 3 party system.

[hippiechick]

1. The Libertarians aren't already ?

:shrug:

I'm confused... I thought the Libs have been around and organized for quite awhile ??


:hippie:

[wanderingbear]

2. Organized yes,But

they havent got enough presidential votes to get National status.

[kainah]

3. The Reform Party had national status

I don't know where you've been studying your history but no way is this the "first 3rd party in US history" to gain a 3rd party national status.

I'm glad for whatever achievement the Greens have finally made but it isn't what you're claiming.

[Orrin_73]

4. The reform party could have been

the official 3rd party in the US but Pat Buchanan made an end to that dream. Pat hijacked the reform party and used it to its own benefit.

deanforamerica.com
clark04.com
kucinich.us
sharpton2004.org

Tom DeLay:"I challenge anyone to live on my salary" <$158,000 a year>

[cryofan]

6. A lot of people thought Pat sabotaged the Reform Party for the GOP

he acted as a hit man, IOW.

They say that because even though Pat had a lot of money in matching Federal funds, his campaign did virtually nothing with it.

[wanderingbear]

5. They did? I thought they fell just short of that??

[happyslug]

7. I thought the GOP was the first in 1856.

They lost to the Whigs and the Democrats in 1856. In 1856 they ran Freemont, who lost to the Democrats (the Whigs also ran a Canidate, but he received less votes than the GOP in 1856).

In 1860, you had no less than Four parties, all can be called "third parties". The Southern Democrats (Who ran Brachenridge), the Northern Democrats (Who ran Stephen Douglas), the GOP (WHo ran Lincoln) and John Bell (another Democrat running in the election)

My favorite election for third parties is the 1912 election, where Eugene Debs received votes in every states:



For more details on parties and elections see:
http://www.uselectionatlas.org/USPRESIDENT/frametextj.html