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.
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.
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Everyone wants a third party! But …
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.
