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	Connecticut's Heritage Gateway
		These young men were attracted by Jackson's personal charisma, by the promise of the Democratic party to support the "common man" in his struggle against "aristocracy," and by the need to shake up the political system in order to further their own careers.
		The party then began to grow, and by 1836 was strong enough to deliver the state's electoral votes to Martin Van Buren, the Democratic candidate for president.
		In the 1850s, the two parties collapsed because they could not take a stand on the issue of the expansion of slavery into the Western territories.
	www.ctheritage.org /encyclopedia/ct1818_1865/twopartysys.htm (0 words)

	Political party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government.
		One right wing coalition party and one left wing coalition party is the most common ideological breakdown in such a system but in two-party states political parties are traditionally catch all parties which are ideologically broad and inclusive.
		The emblem of socialist parties is often a red rose held in a fist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Political_party (1223 words)

	Two Political Parties? Why Not 50? - MSN Encarta
		If their party had some chance, they'd vote their party line.
		A political party is not just a union of people devoted to the same principals.
		By election time, there are only two major parties, pressed right up against each other on either side of a line.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/features/Columns/?Article=TwoPartiesWhy (0 words)

	Duverger: The Electoral System
		If the moderates are divided into two parties, the communist candidate may well win the election; should one of his opponents receive more than 20,000 votes, the other will be left with less than 80,000, thereby insuring the election of the communist.
		If the conservative electorate divides into two parties, with the first receiving 60,000 votes and the second, 40,000, while the communists vote as a bloc on the first ballot, there will still be a second ballot.
		A given electoral regime does not necessarily produce a given party system; it simply exerts an influence in the direction of a particular type of system; it is a force, acting in the midst of other forces, some of which move in an opposite direction.
	www.janda.org /c24/Readings/Duverger/Duverger.htm (1502 words)

	Challenges to the American Two-Party System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The hypothesis is that partisans of the incumbent president's party who disapprove of his performance in office may seek to express that displeasure without defecting to the opposition party.
		First, party identification, at least as conceptualized by Campbell and his colleagues (1960), is self-referential, whereas the other four variables measure the respondent's assessment of the political parties and their activities.
		For two of the three candidates we examined, attitudes about the parties' ability to perform their roles in the electorate and in the government affected their support among the electorate, and in 1980 these attitudes were mediated through attitudes about the major-party candidates.
	www.la.utexas.edu /~ppaolino/files/perot98.htm (8454 words)

	THE AMERICAN TWO PARTY SYSTEM
		Because a party does not gain anything by finishing second, minor parties can rarely overcome the assumption that a vote for them is "wasted." Elections for national and most state representatives are based on single-member districts.
		Parties without big groups of voters supporting them have little hope of winning, and often even have a hard time getting their candidates listed on the ballot.
		The Progressive party of 1912 and the Progressive party of 1924 splintered from the Republicans, gaining 88 electoral votes in 1912 and 13 votes in 1924.
	middle.usm.k12.wi.us /faculty/taft/Unit2/twoparty.htm (0 words)

	Tennessee again a two-party state? Stirrings on both sides ahead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		There is an argument to be made that last month's elections left both parties rejuvenated, and, for a change, both have a deep bench for the future.
		Kim McMillan, a Clarksville lawyer who is a rising star in anybody's book, is the new House majority leader, a position that puts her in front of the television cameras regularly.
		Two of the state's most intriguing politicians now seem without options, but circumstances change in politics.
	www.trehargett.org /Press/two-party.htm (0 words)

	Online NewsHour \| Vote 2004 \|Politics 101 \| Third Parties
		The Green Party platform centers largely on the environment, while Libertarians, which make up the third largest political party in the country and the oldest of the third parties, believe in a reduced role of the government.
		Third parties have had a major influence on U.S. policy and political debate despite their minor presence in Congress -- currently only one U.S. senator and one member of the House of Representatives is an independent.
		Voters often worry that a vote for a third party candidate is "wasted" since he or she is unlikely to win.
	pbs.org /newshour/vote2004/politics101/politics101_thirdparties.html (1389 words)

	The Two Party System for Dummies
		It's not much use having a nice balance of one left-wing party and one right-wing party, because one or the other is going to have to be elected, and then the government itself will be hopelessly unbalanced.
		However, she had a huge effect because she switched attention from the economy, where both parties had a really boring middle position, to immigration, where both parties were out of step with public opinion.
		The other two parties are left to carry on their game as before.
	exon.dyndns.org /notablog/twoparty (0 words)

	Breaking The Two Party Addiction
		Some fear that their vote will not count because 3rd party candidates have no chance to win while others are simply scared of changing from our two party system.
		If voting for 3rd party candidates is currently too much to consider, then the least we can do is to demand that 3rd party candidates be included on our ballots and in all public debates.
		Excluding 3rd party candidates from ballots and public debates for the lack of public support is a self maintaining practice.
	www.opednews.com /articles/opedne_curt_day_061028_breaking_the_two_par.htm (0 words)

	Socialist Party USA
		The Socialist Party joined the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in celebrating their agreement with McDonalds at the the Concert/Rally for Fair Food in Chicago at the end of their 2007 Truth Tour.
		The Party is an endorser of the Alliance for Fair Food and continues to support the CIW's campaign for farmworkers rights.
		On the weekend of March 17th, the 4th anniversary of the start of the most recent criminal invasion of Iraq, the Socialist Party USA joined hundreds of thousands of activists across the United States demanding that we bring all the troop home now.
	www.sp-usa.org (768 words)

	The Two Party System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		When one party cannot gain a clear mandate to govern, the door is open to all manner of compromise with the extreme elements on the fringes of the political landscape.
		With the two party system, the extreme elements that are not initially filtered out are forced to move into the mainstream, or the center of the political spectrum, in order to maintain their legitimacy and credibility.
		Thus, there is a two fold safety mechanism built into the two party system that is not present in multi-party systems.
	www.netwalk.com /~supaflut/twoparty.html (456 words)

	WorldNetDaily: How to strengthen the 2-party system
		The nation would be stronger if the two major political parties were to define their philosophy in relation to this fundamental principle and develop their platforms to be consistent with their philosophy.
		Minority-party enthusiasts would better serve the nation, and their own interests, were they to align with whichever major party most closely embraces their beliefs and then work diligently to influence the platform and performance of the major party of their choice.
		While the line between the two major parties may be blurred on this fundamental principle of governance, there is no question about where the two Johns come down.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39615 (755 words)

	Branding Pittsburgh the 'Two-Party Town' - PittsburghLIVE.com
		The Democratic Party is the one, but it could as easily be the Republican (as was corruptly true in Philadelphia, for example, before 1950).
		Seeing the economy as the One Party does, essentially through a 1930s Depression lens, we allegedly falter for lack of "jump-starts." We are told that new and bigger public works are needed to show the way, taxpayer-financed even when privately owned, like arenas or emporiums.
		The Republican Party would seem to be the choice, simply because it exists in fossil form (though the Allegheny County chief executive is one notable exception to that).
	pittsburghlive.com /x/.../enterprise2003/region/s_119168.html (637 words)

	WowEssays.com - The American Two Party Political System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Federalist Party disappeared as a political force by the 1820 election, mostly because of its opposition to the War of 1812.
		At the base of each party are those loyal to their party, that is those who regularly vote for their party candidates.
		Even if a third party candidate was to get the popular vote in a few districts, all the electoral votes for that state will go to the candidate that won the most precincts or districts.
	www.wowessays.com /dbase/ae4/lmy257.shtml (1670 words)

	Unconventional Wisdom - Two Party Politics
		The pressure exerted by his party could lead to a significant change in the way we elect presidents in the future.
		Additionally, to qualify for matching federal election funds, the party must have had at least 10% of the vote in the previous election.
		What Green Party voters have realized after the election is that their votes actually undermined their liberal beliefs.
	www.unconventional-wisdom.org /Essays/TwoParty.asp (0 words)

	Opinion Editorial: Third Parties Can't Win In A Two-party System
		Last weekend's Reform Party convention brought together activists from across the ideological spectrum yearning for an alternative to the total dominance of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.
		Since at present there is just one member belonging neither to the Republican Party or Democratic Party in the House, the chances for a third party would be even worse in the event that a candidate from such a party denied victory to the major parties in the Electoral College.
		Although those pursuing the third party option may rue the fact, there is no doubt whatsoever that for the foreseeable future all presidents are necessarily going to be either Republicans or Democrats.
	www.ncpa.org /oped/bartlett/jul2899.html (678 words)

	Debbie O'Hara -- America's Two-Party System is a Hoax
		These individuals figured that if they could give the people two candidates with the same socialist goals but still call one a "Democrat" and one a "Republican", they could give the people the illusion of choice while keeping the country headed in the same direction no matter who was elected to office.
		That is why before the rise of political parties (which made necessary the Twelfth Amendment), the man with the most votes was president and the man with the second most was vice-president.
		If he happens to be a member of one of the major parties, fine, but chances of that are very slim because control of both major parties is in the hands of an economic elite whose goal is atheistic socialism.
	www.newswithviews.com /Ohara/debbie29.htm (0 words)

	MY OBSERVATIONS ON THE 2-PARTY SYSTEM
		Which of two fungible fakirs takes office is of increasing irrelevence to the daily issues faced by the public; the distance between the formal 2 party system (the ivory-tower theory) and the polity (the grassroots reality) is reflected in dismal voter turnouts, year after year.
		A minor party attempted to overturn restrictive anti-fusion laws that proscribe one candidate running under the banner of multiple parties.
		The party chiefs, recognizing this, call for more laws and more means for exerting more central control, while the periphery continues to drift away and become increasingly indifferent to the inane ramblings and bureaucratic grindings of the machine in Washington.
	leebertarian.homestead.com /files/poli_sci.html (2020 words)

	U-WIRE.com/COLUMN: Two-party democracy not fair
		It is true that the two parties play different roles even as they rule in tandem.
		I am reminded of the Raza Unida Party, formed in the early 1970s by Mexican-Americans in south Texas who were fed up with the racism and patronage of the Democratic Party.
		The two parties switched sides of the bed in the 1930s, when the FDR administration was forced to make severe concessions to head off widespread unrest over unemployment and poverty.
	www.uwire.com /content/topops052103001.html (787 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted news source for information on Japan
		It does admittedly have two major political parties - the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats - but also a host of minor parties that must be relied upon to form a viable coalition government, Joschka Fischer's Green Party being the current junior coalition member.
		Minor coalition parties will thus be of greater, not less, importance for at least the immediate future, a familiar scenario in Germany's "two plus others" party system.
		Not to discount the very impressive overall gains made by the DPJ, but for a party looking to transform the political landscape into a two-horse race, this is a bit disappointing, as winning against multiple candidates is easier than against one particularly strong candidate and a host of weaker ones in a single-seat district.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/EK12Dh03.html (1232 words)

	Commonwealth Party Main
		The Commonwealth Party is a party that favors limited government, regional/local autonomy and opposes government oppressions such as: over taxation, prohibition drug policy, overregulation in business, government waste and mismanagement, the policies of the welfare state and the over use of government.
		CONSTITUTION PARTY: While it does seem to want to follow the constraints of the constitution, the Constitution Party does have a very strong theocratic nature to their approach in governing.
		The Commonwealth Party however entertains the secession of any or all of the current 50 states should it come to a head -- that is all of America should secede from itself and reconfigure into the Commonwealth.
	home.att.net /~CommonwealthParty/main.htm (0 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted news source for information on Japan
		Still, this is not good news for the party that has dominated Japanese politics almost continuously since its formation in 1955, with one brief spell in opposition in the early 1990s.
		At the other end of the spectrum, it was a catastrophe for the two smaller opposition parties, both of which may sustain mortal wounds.
		However, if it were not for this electoral pact, the party would probably have suffered a similar fate to that of the two small opposition parties.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/FG13Dh01.html (1847 words)

	Politics1 - Guide to American Political Parties
		Cobb argued the party needed to nominate a candidate who openly belonged to the party (note: Nader had never joined) and was pledged to building the party at the local level.
		Allies of the hardcore faction firmly held control of the party from the late-1980s until the moderates seized control at the 2006 national convention and gutted the party's original platform.
		The party ran nuclear physicist John Hagelin as the NLP Presidential nominee in 1992 (ballot status in 32 stares - 39,000 votes - 0.04%), 1996 (ballot status in 44 states - 7th place - 110,000 votes - 0.1%) and 2000 (ballot status in 39 stares - 7th place - 83,000 votes - 0.08%).
	www.politics1.com /parties.htm (0 words)

	NCPA - Government And Politics - Third Parties Can't Win In A Two-Party System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Last weekend's Reform Party convention brought together activists from across the ideological spectrum yearning for an alternative to the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.
		Unfortunately, those supporting third party efforts are wasting their time if their goal actually is to elect a president.
		That is basically guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, which requires an absolute majority in the Electoral College or, failing that, a majority of state delegations to the House of Representatives.
	www.ncpa.org /pd/govern/pd072899a.html (352 words)

	ESR \| July 26, 2004 \| Strengthen the two-party system
		The dozens of U.S. minority parties, on either side of this philosophical divide, tend to confuse the issue rather than clarify it.
		The nation would be stronger if the two major political parties were to define their philosophy in relation to this fundamental principle, and develop their platforms to be consistent with their philosophy.
		Minority party enthusiasts would better serve the nation, and their own interests, were they to align with whichever major party most closely embraces their beliefs, and then work diligently to influence the platform and performance of the major party of their choice.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0704/0704twoparty.htm (0 words)

	Two-Party Madness by Ed Howes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The fact that third parties and their platforms are obscure is proof of a woefully ignorant electorate which will continue to choose the perceived lesser of two evils, when good is a clear option.
		Members of third parties should be asking the two-party candidates where they stand on third-party issues.
		No matter the latest music, we are all dancing the two party tango and service to someone is a given.
	www.theconservativevoice.com /article/17027.html (0 words)

	Founder's petition to end the two-party system
		Since the two-party system of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party have dominated the presidency and the election thereof, they have, in effect, added an eligibility requirement of party membership to the qualifications to hold the office of President, and therefore in violation of ARTICLE II, SECTION 1(5).
		The majority party is seated on one side of the aisle, and the minority party on the other.
		However, political parties controlling the government process do not have the right, adverse to the rights of other citizens, to overwhelm and restrict unaffiliated nonpartisan citizens from representation, expressing their views and interests in the right to vote, in violation of the 1st and 24th Amendments.
	www.realdemocracy.com /no2party.htm (0 words)

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