58% of americans favor creation of third party

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There are already plenty of "third" parties. It's just that few people actually want to vote for them because doing so helps the major party you like the least.

I'm sure they mean third major party.

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a choice between two extremists in the general.

How does the two party system create extremes? The last few elections have been anything but extremists.

Clinton v Dole
Bush v Gore
Bush v Kerry
Obama v McCain

These guys were extremists? More like party hacks.

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Of course that scenario does have somewhat less threat in this country where politically active religious extremists already have effective control over one of the two major parties....

Please tell me you're joking? If not that is absolutely hyperbolic nonsense.

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Of course that scenario does have somewhat less threat in this country where politically active religious extremists already have effective control over one of the two major parties....

Please tell me you're joking? If not that is absolutely hyperbolic nonsense.

Sure, States. The religious right has almost NO influence whatsoever on the GOP's hard-line social conservatism.

To call them "extremists" is really inane hackery. Westboro Baptist Church is extreme, mainline Protestantism and Evangelicals aren't really extreme. Very very very few of the Christians involved in politics at the moment are pushing for any sort of theocracy that you'd imagine in your head. And don't use me as any sort of example, I'm outside the scope of the normal political spectrum, just like most of the leftists here are.

Being pro-life, pro-family and other social conservative positions are not "extreme" by most any standard in this country.

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If Westboro Baptist is even close to your threshold for religious extremism, that rather proves my point, game, set and match.

Uh, I was just using them as an example. I couldn't think of anything closer. I'd certainly say they are the most extreme church right now. What words are you trying to put in my mouth? Really, IMHO, they're all horse crap, Catholicism is the true church anyway.