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You guys have it wrong. There are plenty of third parties in America, but like !@#$%! said, they have the wrong strategy. The money spent on third party presidential candidacies could be used much more effectively to start building a local base of third party government. They seem to want to start from the top down.
There is a mentality that voting third party is futile, and it is -- but only for the presidency. The issue here is that the president has become the "government" to everyone. Congress and local governments don't seem to matter as much as who the president is. Shake ups of the political structure have occured a number of times in America's short history. The time is ripe for it to happen again. Third parties could win some seats and gain some momentum if they would place their focus on something besides the presidency.
Third parties have a institutional disadvantage with the electoral college. It doesn't matter the total number of votes they get, all that matters is if their presidential candidate whole states. It's time to rethink strategies.
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