Alaska haas a prominent third party, the Alaskan Independence Party, that I believe has won some races in the state. So Palin is used to a multiparty system.
She’s right about the importance of third parties. Perhaps we coudl get an Electoral Non-Discriminaton Act that says that whatever standards you use in terms of nominations and ballot access for the major parties, you cannot make more difficult standards for third parties. it still leaves intact that the states run elections, but it insists that they must be run on an even playing field.
I personally believe Barr, Nader and Baldwin should be in the debates this Fall if they raise to a certain reasonable percentage in polls and / or they succeed in ballot qualification in a certain number of states. A standard needs to be decided and people need to have more choices. People want more choices.