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Originally Posted by SwampYankee
Baby steps, gotta start somewhere. Given the anecdotal voting here on this forum, he seems to have struck a chord with a decent percentage.
It's damn near impossible to compete against federal funding, nationally televised debates, guaranteed placement on the ballot and facetime whenever desired.
I suspect the GOP and Democratic Party are just fine with that and why it'll take a long time to build up any momentum.
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The main prize is winner-takes-all laws for the electoral college in most states. That is an insurmountable wall preventing other parties from having a meaningful effect.
If the electoral college were apportioned by congressional district that would shift us slightly toward a pluralistic representative system. Not quite parliamentary but not the calcified madness we now endure.
11-08-2012, 08:46 AM
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