Gallup Poll: Democrats Maintain Seven-Point Advantage in Party ID

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Originally Posted by padcrasher

Only a complete amateur on US Government would not know that 3rd party runs are completely impossible due to the stucture of our election system. They are doomed to failure.

The only suckers are anyone who promotes 3rd parties.

I'm sorry but you must do this the old fashioned way. Lots of slow going, hard work to improve one the two main Parties.

It's your choice. Go dig in the dirt or start making a difference.

A third party candidate almost won as recently as 1992. Perot won 19% of the popular vote at the end, down from 59% in the polls before he temporarily dropped. Clinton and H.W. Bush were so afraid of losing that they bribed a man to threaten Perot's family to force him out of the race. Had that incident not occurred, he would have won the election in 1992.

In 2000, it is argued that the election hinged on 3rd party voters in Florida.

Originally Posted by AnUnidentifiedMale

I wish I could agree with you, but since about99% of Americans end up voting for either Democrats or Republicans, it appears that the respondents to that poll don't mean what they say.

The poll was asking how many people identify themselves as a D or R. It does not ask how they voted. I have voted Democrat in the past, yet I am still not one today. The majority of Americans are swing voters.