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Old 10-08-2008, 11:49 AM   #7046
sterlingice
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Originally Posted by Fidatelo View Post
This is going to sound quite naive, but what stops someone from creating a third party? Does the US constitution mandate that only 2 parties are allowed to exist?

Funding makes it really difficult. The parties are giant money making apparatuses. Even if you got a giant party of independently wealthy people to create a third party, things would eventually settle back into a 2 party system as it would wipe one of the other two out since we vote on plurality and not proportional elections.

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