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To: JohnM who wrote (207158)	11/5/2012 2:11:01 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 543652

As long as we have winner-take-all elections, there is no real room for three parties. Not many people (other than a few single issue voters) are going to vote for a third party that has no chance of winning. The only way to allow for a third party is if we adopt some form of proportional voting, which gives parties some official representation if their total votes go over a certain threshold. That is the system that virtually every system outside of the US uses, although there are many variations on it. See the book I mentioned yesterday for a nice overview of that (Robert Dahl's How Democratic is the US Constitution? ).