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To: TimF who wrote (5504)	6/9/2007 2:48:27 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

Re: "I'm not sure that's true, but even if it is...." Just going by the declines in GOP and Dem Party registrations (to new post-WW II lows I believe...), and the rise, in registered 'Independent' (new post-WW II highs, larger then either Dem or GOP....) The above... and the general sense of malaise in the public (revealed by 'right track/wrong track poll numbers....) "... any third party will be at a serious disadvantage." OF COURSE THEY WOULD BE! The two dominant 'establishment' Parties have GAMED the political system for well-over a century now, erecting a high 'ring fence' around their preserves to keep interlopers from ever gaining a purchase.... (Just as any self-respecting Guild or Union or Business Oligopoly would --- naturally enough --- seek to do to preserve their powers.) (Things like unreasonably HIGH 'ballot access rules' that keep smaller Parties off the ballot lines, and lay expenses upon them that the big two never have to face anymore... bans on the formerly wide-spread practice of 'fusion voting', which used to allow 'minor' Parties, and their new ideas, to grow inside the system... post-WW II adoption of such ideas as 'winner take all' that serve to help persuade people from voting for any party not of the power duopoly, etc., etc., etc.) That's largely why I believe our politics has grown so stultified and corrupted in recent decades, and the public so turned-off.