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Raven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:25 AM Original message |
Who here at DU thinks we need a HEALTHY two-party system in this Country |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
1. It would be a cool idea if anybody ever tried it. |
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Raven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:32 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Agreed. This Republican Party is very, very sick but I think the |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:35 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Yes. If the GOP could atone for its considerable sins and return to the |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:29 AM Response to Original message |
2. I certainly do. Each keeps the pressure on the other. Without it, you get lousy candidates... |
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obama yo mama (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:30 AM Response to Original message |
3. Why Only 2 Parties? |
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Mist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:48 AM Response to Reply #3 |
10. Yes, we need 3 or 4 or 5 parties, minimum! Two parties=too easily gamed. nt |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 10:07 AM Response to Reply #3 |
20. I think that even if we had a hundred parties... |
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tanyev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 11:28 AM Response to Reply #3 |
28. Oh, I am sure that your interests are not fully covered by the Dems. |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:31 AM Response to Original message |
4. I'll take a token Republican opposition of 80-100 in the House and maybe 20 in the Senate |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:31 AM Response to Original message |
5. We could use a healthy multi-party system.... |
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TransitJohn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
6. Not me |
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Raven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:35 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. I didn't mean to limit it to just 2, but we need at least 2 parties, not one |
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TransitJohn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:57 AM Response to Reply #8 |
15. Hell I'd like it |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:52 AM Response to Original message |
11. YES. Democrats and Greens. |
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FLAprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:52 AM Response to Original message |
12. We need multiple parties. not just 2 |
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DireStrike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
13. Nope! We need a three party system at least. |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:56 AM Response to Original message |
14. We need to kill off the conservative idealogy once and for all |
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Smarmie Doofus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:58 AM Response to Original message |
16. Outside of NYS it seems to work. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 01:12 PM Response to Reply #16 |
35. It is similar in most states, only the details change. That's, IMO, the biggest problem with binary |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:59 AM Response to Original message |
17. You mean something other than the Bad and Not As Bad parties we have now? |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 10:01 AM Response to Original message |
18. We can't have one. We the people don't have the money. |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
19. When the other party has fascist tendencies I begin to wonder if its a good idea |
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etherealtruth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
21. Two or more viable parties |
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sufrommich (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 10:12 AM Response to Original message |
22. Of course we should. People have legitimate philosophical |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 10:23 AM Response to Original message |
23. Sure, if the two Parties |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
24. we have just lived through 8 years of one party tyranny |
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adamuu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 10:39 AM Response to Original message |
25. i'd like to see it |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 10:41 AM Response to Original message |
26. Actually I think we need a healthy mult-party system.....A two-party system isn't democratic IMHO. |
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Toucano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 10:52 AM Response to Original message |
27. We need a viariety of opposing ideas but we don't need any parties. |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 11:35 AM Response to Original message |
29. I think a two party system is good |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
30. How things have changed. |
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mwooldri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
31. Introduce the Proportional Representation system of voting into this country... |
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fed_up_mother (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
32. We need more than two parties, imo, but I get your point and agree. |
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Beregond2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
33. I've never understood this attitude in America |
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roody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
34. Two parties are not enough. |
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