Well 3rd parties will never be a force in the future as long as people vote for the perceived lesser of two evils. It's the old 2 party Beltway Shell Game played over and over again every 4 years.
The next presidential election in 2008 will be no different. The GOP will, whether fair or not, cast as the democratic candidate as the Devil Incarnate. The democrats will do the same with the republican candidate. Bottom Line: Nothing changes, globalism and the dissolution of America as a sovereign nation marches on.
Truth is neither of the Beltway Parties want 3rd parties to horn in on their lucrative duopoly on power and will fight tooth and nail together to make sure it does not happen. When you write the laws, you determine your future.
This has become inordinately clear in the past decade or so.
An accurate summation of the current two-party scam.