Support for Third U.S. Political Party Up to 63%

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Except in reality, it's not. There is little doubt that when the next election comes 98% of this 63% will still herd themselves into voting R or D. They will ultimately decide that the third party can't win and it's SUPER important that (insert Trump or Biden) doesn't get back into office, so they will choose one and the third party will get 2% of the vote. Hence, the self-fulfilling prophecy continues yet another cycle.

Support for Third U.S. Political Party Up to 63%

Sixty-three percent of Americans say a third U.S. political party is needed, up from 56% a year ago and by one percentage point the highest in Gallup's 20-year trend.

news.gallup.com

 

[odanny]

Except in reality, it's not. There is little doubt that when the next election comes 98% of this 63% will still herd themselves into voting R or D. They will ultimately decide that the third party can't win and it's SUPER important that (insert Trump or Biden) doesn't get back into office, so they will choose one and the third party will get 2% of the vote. Hence, the self-fulfilling prophecy continues yet another cycle.

Support for Third U.S. Political Party Up to 63%

Sixty-three percent of Americans say a third U.S. political party is needed, up from 56% a year ago and by one percentage point the highest in Gallup's 20-year trend.

news.gallup.com

Are you old enough to remember 1992? Ross Perot got serious consideration, at first, but then he dropped out, and then got back in, but if you get someone sensible and that has some experience managing people or large corpoorations, we could easily elect another outsider, and this year might be the greatest chance of winning since Perot.

 

[TNHarley]

Most of those guys will vote for the duopoly. They are ashamed of the two main parties, but will still give them their support.
Hence, why I say a majority of the American electorate is fucking stupid.

 

[BULLDOG]

Are you old enough to remember 1992? Ross Perot got serious consideration, at first, but then he dropped out, and then got back in, but if you get someone sensible and that has some experience managing people or large corpoorations, we could easily elect another outsider, and this year might be the greatest chance of winning since Perot.

Trump claimed to be competent running a large corporation, and you see how much he screwed everything up. Our government is not a business, and can't be run like one.

 

[TNHarley]

Trump claimed to be competent running a large corporation, and you see how much he screwed everything up. Our government is not a business, and can't be run like one.

Its not a nursing home, either.

 

[BULLDOG]

Its not a nursing home, either.

Only 3 years difference.

 

[Independentthinker]

Except in reality, it's not. There is little doubt that when the next election comes 98% of this 63% will still herd themselves into voting R or D. They will ultimately decide that the third party can't win and it's SUPER important that (insert Trump or Biden) doesn't get back into office, so they will choose one and the third party will get 2% of the vote. Hence, the self-fulfilling prophecy continues yet another cycle.

Support for Third U.S. Political Party Up to 63%

Sixty-three percent of Americans say a third U.S. political party is needed, up from 56% a year ago and by one percentage point the highest in Gallup's 20-year trend.

news.gallup.com

The biggest problem is most Americans want moderates and not extremes. Both parties are moving further away from center and third parties are generally even more extreme than the two main parties. There is no party which represents that 63%.

 

[wamose]

The America first party would be the logical choice. After all, Americans want better representation. MAGA is the answer.

 

[Doc7505]

Except in reality, it's not. There is little doubt that when the next election comes 98% of this 63% will still herd themselves into voting R or D. They will ultimately decide that the third party can't win and it's SUPER important that (insert Trump or Biden) doesn't get back into office, so they will choose one and the third party will get 2% of the vote. Hence, the self-fulfilling prophecy continues yet another cycle.

Support for Third U.S. Political Party Up to 63%

Sixty-three percent of Americans say a third U.S. political party is needed, up from 56% a year ago and by one percentage point the highest in Gallup's 20-year trend.

news.gallup.com

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Everyone wants a third party! But …​

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/17/politics/third-party-gallup-poll/index.html

Intriguing, right? And once you read into the story on the new Gallup poll, things get even more interesting!
More than 6 in 10 Americans (62%) agreed with the statement that “parties do such a poor job representing the American people that a third party is needed.” That’s the highest ever measured by Gallup in the nearly two decades it has been asking questions about third parties.
Like I said: intriguing. But also deeply misleading – for a few reasons.

1. The question wording seems very likely to produce a response in favor of a third party.​

2. What sort of third party are we talking about here? ​

3. Parties are HARD to build.​

The Point: People like the idea, generally speaking, of third parties. The reality of forming a viable third party is a whole heck of a lot tougher to do.

Commentary:
Of course it`s possible to form a third party, but do Americans have the will and time to do so?
There is a supposed centrist Party that has been formed call the Alliance Party.
Our founding fathers were concerned with have two opposing political Parties.
“Alexander Hamilton called political parties a ‘most fatal disease,’” Cohen writes. “James Madison renounced the ‘violence of faction,’ and George Washington feared that an overly successful party would create ‘frightful despotism.’”
A third party doesn't have an advantage in the American political system.

 

[Rocko]

We already have two shitty parties, no need for another

 

[TNHarley]

Only 3 years difference.

LOL its hilarious how you act like that is a legit standard or something.
Actually arguing they are both old
Fuckin hack

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Are you old enough to remember 1992? Ross Perot got serious consideration, at first, but then he dropped out, and then got back in, but if you get someone sensible and that has some experience managing people or large corpoorations, we could easily elect another outsider, and this year might be the greatest chance of winning since Perot.

He isn't smart enough to remember. Age is irrelevant.

I can't wait for the third party to help install the gop candidate

 

[Mac1958]

Except in reality, it's not. There is little doubt that when the next election comes 98% of this 63% will still herd themselves into voting R or D. They will ultimately decide that the third party can't win and it's SUPER important that (insert Trump or Biden) doesn't get back into office, so they will choose one and the third party will get 2% of the vote. Hence, the self-fulfilling prophecy continues yet another cycle.

Support for Third U.S. Political Party Up to 63%

Sixty-three percent of Americans say a third U.S. political party is needed, up from 56% a year ago and by one percentage point the highest in Gallup's 20-year trend.

news.gallup.com

I've mostly given up on this, at least for now. If this current nightmare isn't enough for us to add a party, nothing will do it.

We need to fix this system before it kills us.

 

[Lastamender]

I've mostly given up on this, at least for now. If this current nightmare isn't enough for us to add a party, nothing will do it.

We need to fix this system before it kills us.

All we need to do is follow the Constitution.

 

[Lord Long Rod]

Trump claimed to be competent running a large corporation, and you see how much he screwed everything up. Our government is not a business, and can't be run like one.

TDS - Please people, get yourself checked out so that you do not end up like Mr. Bulldog.

 

[Batcat]

Are you old enough to remember 1992? Ross Perot got serious consideration, at first, but then he dropped out, and then got back in, but if you get someone sensible and that has some experience managing people or large corpoorations, we could easily elect another outsider, and this year might be the greatest chance of winning since Perot.

By dropping out, Ross Perot effectively shot himself in the foot.

Perot Charges Plot Forced Him Out; 'Loony,' GOP Says : Campaign: He accuses Bush camp of plan to smear daughter and disrupt her wedding, and says he quit race to protect her. Texan offers no proof for allegations.

Independent presidential candidate Ross Perot accused President Bush's campaign Sunday of plotting to fake a photograph to smear his youngest daughter, of conspiring to disrupt her wedding and of hiring an ex-CIA employee to wiretap his computerized stock trading program and ruin him.

www.latimes.com

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Are you old enough to remember 1992? Ross Perot got serious consideration, at first, but then he dropped out, and then got back in, but if you get someone sensible and that has some experience managing people or large corpoorations, we could easily elect another outsider, and this year might be the greatest chance of winning since Perot.

I was like 10, so not really, but I know who he was

 

[BULLDOG]

LOL its hilarious how you act like that is a legit standard or something.
Actually arguing they are both old
Fuckin hack

They are both old.

 

[dblack]

Except in reality, it's not. There is little doubt that when the next election comes 98% of this 63% will still herd themselves into voting R or D. They will ultimately decide that the third party can't win and it's SUPER important that (insert Trump or Biden) doesn't get back into office, so they will choose one and the third party will get 2% of the vote. Hence, the self-fulfilling prophecy continues yet another cycle.

Support for Third U.S. Political Party Up to 63%

Sixty-three percent of Americans say a third U.S. political party is needed, up from 56% a year ago and by one percentage point the highest in Gallup's 20-year trend.

news.gallup.com

Maybe,.. maybe... just maybe the choices offered up by the Ds and Rs are so incredibly shitty that people will quit falling for it.

No chance.

 

[TNHarley]

I've mostly given up on this, at least for now. If this current nightmare isn't enough for us to add a party, nothing will do it.

We need to fix this system before it kills us.

You are one of the people its talking about, DERP