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To: MrLeRoy
If you wanted to win minds you'd explain it instead. Your call.

I just thought it was kind of self-evident. Third party candidates don't win anything. They simply play spoiler in favor of the the other side. That's the way it has always been since the demise of the Whig party, and that is the way it will be into the forseeable future.

The only way I see for another party to arise is if the GOP abandon its pro-life stance. But were that to happen, we would still have a two-party system, though, because one of the two current parties would pass into the dustbin of history.

70 posted on 10/28/2003 2:34:09 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance
Third party candidates don't win anything.

That is usually, but not always, true.

They simply play spoiler in favor of the the other side.

Only if they get more votes than the "other side"s margin of victory. But a third-party vote is always a message to the major parties.

497 posted on 10/29/2003 11:20:02 AM PST by MrLeRoy (The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. - Jefferson)
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