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	Third party (politics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For instance, in the United Kingdom a third party is a national political party other than the Conservatives and Labour which has a substantial presence in the House of Commons.
		The term "third parties" is used in countries with first past the post electoral systems as these systems tend to create a two-party system; meaning successful smaller parties are rare.
		In U.S. politics, for instance, a third party is a political party other than the Democrats or Republicans that also has national influence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Third_political_party (430 words)

	Third party (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Third parties in the United States are secondary political parties that participate in national and state elections.
		Also a third party may be used by the voter to cast a protest vote as if in a referendum on an important issue.
		And since the new party rarely seems to have the chance or prospect of electing its candidate for governor of a state or president of the country, the voter is inclined in advance to consider its entire ticket as hopeless.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Third_party_(United_States) (2765 words)

	The Case Against Third Parties
		The Constitution Party argues that it will push needed reforms that the Republicans won't, but they'll do what the Republican party is able to do by getting most principled members of the GOP to their cause.
		The idea that politicians of both parties are hopelessly corrupt and the only hope for the country is for a particular third party to claim victory is gloomy.
		When that third party finished with less than half a percent or less than a tenth of a percent of the vote, it becomes downright demoralizing that 97% of Americans are voting for hopelessly corrupt major parties.
	www.adamsweb.us /thirdparty.htm (1604 words)

	Would we be better off with a third political party? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		These groups forced the major political parties to pass significant anti-monopoly legislation as well as important labor legislation.
		Third parties have always provided an emotional bridge for voters who are weary of supporting one major party but aren't yet ready to vote for the other.
		We need third parties more than ever to introduce new ideas into the system, provide an outlet for people unhappy with current government policy, and make it possible for some third party to grow into a new major party, replacing one of the existing parties.
	www.ballot-access.org /winger/wwbbo.html (407 words)

	Green Party Article
		Hardcore political activists and officeholders are used to the political give-and-take that goes with operating inside a legislative body, and tend to want to convince voters to think the same way.
		Third party candidates don't play electoral games playing one constituency off another, deciding which is less important for votes or money.
		When a third party candidate reaches a certain level of visibility and seriousness, public skepticism evaporates and we have a new political arena one with a fresh and honest voice, speaking to clearly stated concerns of voters and would-be voters.
	www.gp.org /articles/third_parties.shtml (862 words)

	Winter 00: Obstacles and Challenges for Third Parties
		The party, originally founded by H. Ross Perot in the wake of his bid for the presidency, claims in its mission statement that, "We shall restore integrity, accountability and fiscal responsibility to government and its leadership." While this goal is certainly admirable for any political party, its attainability remains in question.
		No third party will have a serious impact in American politics until it is a truly national party with a national base rather than a conglomeration of "personalities" with no real role within American government.
		Third party presidential candidates come and go, and if they are popular enough, they can have some effect on the final elections.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~ppq/W00/w00thirdparties.html (1059 words)

	USIS -- Issues of Democracy, September 1996 --Third Parties Score Limited Success in U.S.
		Political parties were not envisaged by America's Founding Fathers, but they gradually took hold as the electorate expanded.
		The historic tradition in which the two parties act as "large umbrellas" for a variety of interests and ideological persuasions inhibits the formation of third parties.
		While there are a number of third parties in the United States -- from the American Communist Party on the far left to scores of parties in the center and the far right -- few have wielded significant political influence.
	usinfo.state.gov /journals/itdhr/0996/ijde/thirdp.htm (1126 words)

	AMERICA NEEDS A NEW POLITICAL PARTY
		Political scientist Richard Hoffesteder has observed that the role of the third political party is "to sting like a bee and then die." This truly has been the fate of third political parties for the last 140 years.
		The last third political party to become one of the two major parties was the Republican Party in the 1850s.
		Political parties were not part of the vision of our founding fathers, and are not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution.
	www.americanreform.org /Lamm/new_political_party.html (3059 words)

	Go for the silver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In at least as many districts, some poor soul ran without the support of his or her party, was outspent by at least 10 to 1, and had more chance of getting sent to Mars than to Capitol Hill.
		It's in just such states, where one of the two main parties is hugely unpopular, that a regional third party may be possible.
		In fact, all three minor parties with a real chance for growth -- Reform, Green, and Libertarian -- should concentrate on the handful of states where one of the two major parties is particularly weak.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/features/00/03/30/THIRD_PARTY.html (2257 words)

	Getting There
		A third party must have a core support base that is equally distant from the Republican and Democratic positions.
		A political party which fills this hole could be close enough to the center to be viable, while at the same time its political center would be equidistant from the two legacy parties.
		Since the parties in power are pulling this country down and to the right, there is a good possibility that the true political center is in the upper left quadrant.
	www.holisticpolitics.org /GettingThere/NewParty.php (1220 words)

	Third Political Party to Host Candidate Recruitment Drive at State Capitol - 12/13/2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Harrisburg, PA - A candidate recruitment drive for anyone interested in running for political office in 2006 will be held on the front steps of the State Capitol Thursday, December 15th.
		The recruitment drive, organized by the Capital Area Libertarian Party, is open to anyone of any political party seeking information on being a candidate next year.
		The Libertarian Party is the third largest political party in the United States with over 600 officials serving in office throughout the nation.
	www.politicspa.com /pressreleasedetailed.asp?id=126 (199 words)

	Politics1 - Guide to American Political Parties
		The Constitution Party appear to have generally cemented their place as the third largest third party in the nation.
		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%).
		Third Party's site states that it is working towards fielding a candidate for the 2004 Presidential election.
	www.politics1.com /parties.htm (9472 words)

	Dean's World - Third Party Surge? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		There is much talk around the blogosphere, as well as among certain mainstream media pundits, that there's growing sentiment for a third party to challenge the dominant two political parties.
		The only way for a third party to become a significant long-term force is by tearing apart and effectively destroying one of the two existing ones.
		Third parties just generally serve as spoilers for one of the two major parties.
	www.deanesmay.com /posts/1149283124.shtml (1199 words)

	Third Party: Political Alternatives in the Age of Duopoly.
		Third Party: Political Alternatives in the Age of Duopoly.
		Are we on the cusp of the rise of a third party in this country?
		Though rare, American history includes the rise and triumph of third parties, the Republican Party being the most significant example.
	www.thirdpartypolitics.org (230 words)

	Why is there no third party in the U.S.?
		Despite their differences, these two parties share a fundamental stake in promoting the interests of big business and the economic, political and military dominance of the U.S. over the rest of the world.
		The Communist Party itself helped secure Roosevelt’s re-election that year, and by 1938, party publications abandoned the idea of forming a third political party in the U.S., arguing for "operating insofar as electoral activity is concerned, chiefly through the Democratic Party."
		Perhaps the most disastrous effect of Democratic Party politics on the U.S. left is that it allows the left’s collective memory to stretch no further back than the last election, so political lessons such as those from the 1930s have been lost on current generations.
	www.socialistworker.org /2004-2/511/511_08_ThirdParty.shtml (1042 words)

	Many voters support creating third party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		AUSTIN -- Deeply alienated from the nation's current political leadership, many Texans would like to see a third political party emerge to address the concerns of average people, according to a new poll.
		Another 37 percent said the two parties have problems but in general do try to address the concerns of average people and offer voters a choice.
		Forty-two percent said a third party would make no difference in the way American government functions.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/metropolitan/96/01/27/issues.html (494 words)

	Third Party: Political Alternatives in the Age of Duopoly.
		Third Party is a documentary film that makes a comprehensive survey of today's major United States third party efforts.
		Not merely an academic exercise, the film weaves in the story of the third party candidacy of Mike DeRosa, one of the thousands of everyday Americans who run for office each year under a third party banner.
		An educational and inspiring mosaic of the lesser-known political visionaries fighting to bring serious change to an actual democracy in danger of slipping into a virtual one.
	www.thirdpartypolitics.org /thefilm.html (217 words)

	Harvard Gazette: African Americans may find new life in third party
		Forum, Ogletree noted that in modern history African Americans have been largely loyal to the Democratic Party, but that loyalty is running thin and could prompt the creation of a third political party.
		The Democratic Party, he said, "will have its work cut out for it to duplicate the massive and energetic turnout of fl voters as witnessed in 2000 and 2004.
		The party assumed, he noted, that anyone who's interested in hip-hop is going to vote Democratic, but in reality, young people were attracted to such Republican ideas as privatization.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2005/03.03/25-ogletree.html (603 words)

	The Israeli Lobby Is America's Third Major Political Party
		Kieth Kyle, the author of 'Suez', records that John Foster Dulles was 'given a sharp reminder of the domestic political dimensions of his problem' and was 'subjected to several hours of questioning.
		Kyle narrates that in a 'bitter dressing down' of the Ambassador, the Secretary of State complained of 'the political campaign being waged by the Israelis against the administration, the paid advertisements, the mass meetings, the resolutions, the demands of Zionist organizations, the veiled threats of domestic political reprisals'.
		It is essential that men of honor insist that proper scrutiny be paid to the third party.
	www.rense.com /general25/jamor.htm (1582 words)

	Where's the party? - African-Americans should form a third political party - Column Essence - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Some have posited that third parties can't survive within American political culture - but we should not forget that the Grand Old Party itself was a third party little more than 130 years ago.
		While the electoral process should, of course, be an important concern, our party could also involve itself with other day-to-day activities such as political polls, economic development, legislative research and political education.
		We need this party just as human beings need families to nurture and socialize their children and just as all humans need educational institutions to pass on knowledge, skills and values from generation to generation.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1264/is_n7_v23/ai_12800229 (756 words)

	Official Website of the Libertarian National Committee
		Libertarian Party Mourns the Loss of Dr. Milton Friedman - William Redpath, Chairman of the Libertarian National Committee stated in reflection, "Milton Friedman was more than just a great economist, whose scholarly work on monetarism helped tame this nation's inflation and bring about the prosperity of the past quarter century.
		Texas Libertarians Make Major Gains, Break Records - The Libertarian Party of Texas showed significant advances in the 2006 general election vote totals as compared to their performance in previous years.
		The state party fielded 168 candidates on the ballot, their highest count ever.
	www.lp.org (349 words)

	OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan
		There is a sense the nation's culture and politics are and have been changing, shifting, and agreement that the election was not a realigning one but could yet prove to be if, among other things, Republicans fail to step back, refind and rethink their philosophy, style, priorities and meaning.
		As for Democrats, they have a unique opportunity, one they haven't had in 14 years, to redefine for the public what their party is. It is their chance to change their public label.
		There are more anecdotes about the president's refusal or inability to absorb information he emotionally resists: the senator who kept telling him the past year what trouble the party was in only to be ignored, the former congressman who pressed the point with the president and received a tongue lashing.
	www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/pnoonan (1061 words)

	U-WIRE.com/COLUMN: America needs third political party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I submit that the political parties are not for ideals or principles but for power.
		The common argument is that a third party vote is a wasted vote, but not voting at all is the real waste.
		Every vote that goes to a third party ensures ballot access for another year and more choices as to who represents you.
	www.uwire.com /content/topops081704003.html (553 words)

	OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan
		The problem is that the parties in Washington, and the people on the ground in America, are polarized.
		There is an increasing and profound distance between the rulers of both parties and the people--between the elites and the grunts, between those in power and those who put them there.
		But a new group or entity that could define the problem correctly--that sees the big divide not as something between the parties but between America's ruling elite and its people--would be making long strides in putting third party ideas in play in America again.
	www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/pnoonan/?id=110008453 (1100 words)

	Pew Research Center: A Third Political Party? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A narrow majority of the respondents (53%) surveyed by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press in an April 2006 agree that the U.S. should have a third major political party in addition to the Democratic and Republican parties.
		When asked whether there are differences in what the Democratic and Republican parties stand for, most Americans say there are: 33% believe there is a great deal of difference, and 42% say there is a fair amount of difference.
		By far, the single most common word for the Republican Party was "conservative" and for the Democratic Party, "liberal." Following these ideological labels was "fair," a term that some respondents meant as "even-handed" and others evidently meant to be tepid praise, if that.
	pewresearch.org /datatrends/index.php?NumberID=110 (500 words)

	Third Party Trivia Quiz: Questions
		All of these candidates received electoral votes as third party candidates.
		Which of these third party candidates was never Vice President of the United States?
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	www.richardwarrenfield.com /3pty-tst.htm (281 words)

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