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- Dec 8, 2006
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- Libertarian - Left
Ideally it would be best to just get more partys, especially ones for people who have principles political views.
However, since the ellectoral systems in America (not just for president) have a much stronger winner-take-all mechanism, it is much harder for smaller partys to get any power.
Even though I don't like the idea of a political party picking their representives based on the percentage of the votes they get (say for the house) then that is the only way to get some third party power.
The whole idea of a constitutency of some countys in a state doesn't really work for that, but the loss of that is still worth more differing views in American politics.
Even though I didn't vote for a major candidate for the presidential ellection, I know that there still needs to be some sort of work INSIDE of the partys to get the mechanisms to allow for third party candidates.
We'll always be two party dominated unless we change dramatically how we count winners. But if third parties are allowed fair participation, they then become very useful levers to use by the People to put pressure on the main parties. And it allows for the possibility of replacing one of the main parties should it be necessary (like now).