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B.Ruth. Cornwell's avatar

Unfortunately, America's two party, first past the post electoral college elitist fail safe system while crumbling, is still an obstacle course and rarely do third parties, make an impact on our voting. Proportional Representation would probably have an interesting humanizing effect on our elections and make it far more difficult for billionaire financing to wrangle the electorate, or the candidates into strait jackets. IN the meantime 3rd party no hopers are not going to marshal enough votes to achieve more than gadfly status. It is precisely the lack of breadth,, of choice, that gets us into these pickles when both candidates have enough deficits to dissatisfy the majority of voters. The least bad candidate makes for a dismal election day..

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