Quote Originally Posted by flyingimam
We need to leave this 2 party only system behind. until then, all these 3rd parties will do is to interrupt the election statistics at best if at all anything

Not that Im against them or anythin, I just feel they are not there for what a party is supposed to be there for, in the current mainframe of our political system.

it will be fun to have more than the 2 main parties compete for power and it will be more fun to have the 2 main parties form coalition government with each other or smaller parties. i can only see this in dreamland though
I'd love to see smaller parties have a chance, but unless the Constitution is rewritten to have a more parliamentary form of government, it is never going to happen. There is nothing in the Constitution that says the American government MUST have a 2-party system. It is not a law, and obviously we do have other parties. But because of the way our President is elected, a 2-party system naturally dominates. It is part of the game-theory that comes out of the election rules. In order to have any chance of winning, a party needs to corner at least close to half of the voters, which is very difficult with more than 2 parties. A third party generally ends up losing and also ends up drawing away support form the other party that is closest in philosphy to its own philosophy --- for example, the Green party pulls support away from Democrats, and Ross Perot drew support away from Bush Senior.

If we had a more parliamentary system, maybe some more focused parties could emerge, and you wouldn't have to buy the whole "package" that comes with each party.