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To: JDN who wrote (115025)	5/20/2005 3:29:39 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793928

I wont get into it now but i often think a third party is coming and if successful will become the new second party replacing one of the majors. I am always wrong about this happening but picture a Dean-Delay race and tell me a third party wouldnt do well and maybe win. (i know dean/delay is not possible--just using for an example).

To: JDN who wrote (115025)	5/20/2005 5:06:04 PM
From: Bridge Player	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793928

If Ross Perot had been a strong, charismatic leader instead of a fruitcake, and had aligned himself with the Libertarian party, that "strong third party" might just be a force today, possibly having established a small significant following in 1992. Instead, the Republicans co-opted his main theme, budgetary and financial discipline, added the rest of the Contract With America, and swept into office in 1994, thus pretty much obviating the need for the Reform Party. I'll leave it to others to judge what happened to those principles, and why, after they all got elected. Where's Newt when you need him? <g>.