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To: ManyMoose who wrote (280376)	11/13/2008 12:29:28 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 794162

I wonder what would happen if the Republican party split up and members went to the Democrats and Libertarian parties according to their preference. The democrats would be strengthened. In percentage terms the libertarian party would grow much more, but it probably would still be too weak to be a serious challenger. Also while "moderate" Republicans go to the Dems, and libertarian leaning Republicans go to the libertarian party, what would happen to the social/religious conservatives in the GOP? Maybe they would remain and control the party. Then instead of being two big parties and a bunch of tiny and insignificant parties, you have one big party, and two medium sized parties (and tiny insignificant parties on the side). I don't think that's stable, in our political system. It could work in a parliamentary system with proportional representation and the alliances in parliament determining the PM (you would have two blocks, basically the Democrats and the alliance that opposes them). But in our system it would just be handing the Dems power until the parties change around again.

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