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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (5565)	6/12/2007 10:58:07 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

For example, throughout the nineteenth century, (& into the first decades of the 20th.), we always had a vibrant array of political parties... new ones emerging and growing or dying out... their ideas (if good) subsumed into other parties' platforms, or else fueling the rise of the new party to political success. The parties shifted more than, but you tended to have two dominate parties, who stayed dominate for a time. Up until 1824 you had the Federalists, and the Republican/Democratic-Republican party (which eventually became the modern Democrats after some parts split off, and parts of other parties joined) From 1837 to 1852 you had the 2nd party system, with the Democrats, and the Whigs. From 1854 on its pretty much been the Democrats and Republicans. In between these periods, or for very short periods of time within these periods you had some elections where third parties where competitive (in between them you had 3rd parties become on of the big two). But its always settled on 2 dominant parties because in first past the post elections, third parties don't fit in so well. At the margin the big two have done a lot to make it even worse for third parties, but eliminate all of that and third parties still have a problem. I think "fusion voting" should be allowed, but allowing it doesn't give the Conservative party or any other minor party any great deal of political power in NY. Even when Conservative party votes make the difference in an important election (usually they don't) 1 - The voters are almost always voting for the same person they would have voted for if the Conservative party didn't exist. and 2 - The candidate is considered A Republican or Democrat. No one really associates the candidate with the Conservative party.