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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Omega: [QB] Well, if you think there need to be more Libertarian/Green/whatever local candidates and that they have a chance of winning, you could always run. I might. :) One of the problems is that the two major parties have done a heck of a job of keeping other parties off the ballots. In Tennessee, it is effectively impossible for a third party to be identified as a party on the ballots; they'd have to have won 15% of the popular vote in the last gubernatorial election or something ridiculous like that. Those laws are being challenged, but until then everyone on a lot of ballots is either (R), (D), or (I), regardless of actual party affiliation. Makes it require much more effort to be an unformed party voter. As for "host" parties, that's nothing unusual in any form of politics. If you had four parties, say, of approximately equal size, they'd gang up with each other on a lot of issues. But not all, otherwise there'd be no point in having a separate party to begin with. The reason there's no desire to vote for third parties is because most people don't know about them. Over half of voters from all parties want Bob Barr and Ralph Nader included in the debates, but the major parties and media never mention them at all. Why else would that be except that they're scared? They did the same thing to Ron Paul. Any candidate that's outside their world, they shut out of the information flow, and nobody hears about how popular they are, what they stand for, or frequently even their existence. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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