RE: End the current twoEparty duopoly
- Archived: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:59:00 -0500 (EST)
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:31:56 -0500 (EST)
- From: Jay Oliver <jaydeeo@aol.com>
- Subject: RE: End the current twoEparty duopoly
- X-topic: Choice 1
" . . . In truth, they both prefer the current system. They're willing to lose an occasional close election in exchange for locking out third-party candidates."
Exactly the problem!
In fact, the original post-Watergate funding reforms were successfully (in part) challenged in court, NOT by traditional Dems/Reps, but by former Senators James Buckley (NY, Conservative Party)and Eugene McCarthy (WI, ex-Democrat), who saw the reforms for what they really were, protections for incumbents and against third parties.
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