Election 2012

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Of course not, none exists, but I believe he was addressing the reality that the two parties have locked up sufficient control to squash a third party run for anything but a local post.

Originally Posted by Adak

Oh, you can have more than two political parties, (and we do), but the way our gov't is set up by the Constitution, only two parties are ever likely to dominate any election.

The day will come when elections will not have primaries but there will be runoff elections, people will choose between 5 or 6 parties in the first round and then between the top two finishers in the second round.

This will probably happen after we start driving flying cars that run on sunlight, America is not that advanced yet.