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Question: In which decade would a third party be most likely to win a national election?
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Dr. Cynic
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« on: August 05, 2012, 02:33:37 PM »

Unfortunately, it'll never happen. The American political system is designed to prevent it.
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« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2012, 01:45:39 PM »

IT WON'T HAPPEN AS LONG AS THE UNITED STATES USES FPTP
It will only happen if the United States adopts proportional representation.  And it's hard to say when such a thing will happen.  Certainly you'll start to see minor parties make inroads into government, but the rise of a new party to major party status is one of those events that just pop out of nowhere.

Not necessarily true. Canada has FPTP and the NDP (which was a fourth party recently) just became Official Opposition and in Australia, they use a form of PR, but they're really just a two party state as well.
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