Mr. Morden
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« on: June 28, 2012, 06:09:31 AM » |
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The USA's system of using open primaries to determine party nominees for virtually every office means that it's usually more effective to try to wage an insurgent campaign within one of the two major parties than it is to actually go third party. (As the Paulite insurgency is showing.)
Yes, the two major parties have gotten weaker (and yes, the internet has contributed to that), but what that means is that they've weakened in their ability to control their own membership, not that they're at risk of being supplanted by a third party. (Though I do wonder if, many years down the line, the Paulite insurgency might threaten to blow the GOP apart.)
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