US presidential election 2008

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I think it's mostly down to people wanting to put their weight behind a party they think will actually win. It's like in the UK we have many parties as you'd expect, but it's pretty much Labour vs Conservatives at election day and has been for decades.Other parties are realistically going to take an awfully long time to gain anywhere near enough momentum to challenge either of the above, and probably not even in my lifetime, so I'm assuming most people choose to vote for their favourite of the two that stand a chance.

I think that most people are just "straight-republican" or "straight-democrat" and thats half the reason why it is the way it is. On our ballots the first two options are "all democrat" or "all republican"

Just shows you the way it is displayed to the voting public. Everyone is pretty much brought up on either it's one way or the other with little education on everything in-between, outside, or around.

Just my theory, I guess.

empire state building is blue for win

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In Europe we have schools for this

W0rd. /me waves at Socrates

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I think it's mostly down to people wanting to put their weight behind a party they think will actually win. It's like in the UK we have many parties as you'd expect, but it's pretty much Labour vs Conservatives at election day and has been for decades.

Well, it's not that it's a particularly bad thing to have only two major parties, it's just that there remain only two or three candidates that can be voted for in the end. Parties usually choose one candidate for the race and then you should talk about variety [Blocked Image: https://migrationtest.mapcore.org/public/style_emoticons/default/mapcore_smilies/emot_shakehead.gif] I'm just afraid that two parties can't cover all of the people's issues correctly. Inside a democracy, every major opinion should be taken into consideration.

Just my two cents

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Inside a democracy, every major opinion should be taken into consideration.

wrong. demcrocacy is (or should be) the "concert" of all opinions. if you go for the major opinions only you could easily go for nearly every other state-form as well. a dictatorship can consider all major opinions but the strenght and weakness of the democracy is that every single opinion is taken into account.

I'm still waiting for a way that eliminates corruption. Hello communism.

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Well, it's not that it's a particularly bad thing to have only two major parties, it's just that there remain only two or three candidates that can be voted for in the end. Parties usually choose one candidate for the race and then you should talk about variety [Blocked Image: https://migrationtest.mapcore.org/public/style_emoticons/default/mapcore_smilies/emot_shakehead.gif]

Thats why we have primarys.. A bunch of people(usually like 5- from each party campaign for the opportunity to be on that party's ticket.. registered members of each party vote on who they want to be on the ticket.

the point still remains that there is a two party system, sure there are other parties but they don't count for much

I think the biggest problem with the two party system isn't in choosing the president, but in the make up of congress.