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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo
There are other parties and good parties at that. Problem is that the system is rigged for the two parties and the rest are just pointless.
Our elections are about as free as Russias.
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I do not think that the system is rigged for the two major parties. To me it is just that the minor parties simply cannot raise the money to get the public attention that the two major parties can raise. In the case of Ross Perot...a multi billionaire...he had the money to get attention but basically turned out to be on the nutty side. If the funding to run was changed (which apparently it will not because of a previous Supreme Court ruling) it would level the playing field...but until then the minor parties will remain in the foreground. At least until another extemely wealthy person decides to run in one of the minor parties...and not turn out to be a kook...like Ross Perot was.