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Originally posted by sgtclub
That would be interesting, but its truly a hypothetical. I've been waiting for years for a third party to emerge. Call it the "Guiliani Party." I think it would have broad based support, provided that it could pull away enough recognizable people from both sides to give it legitimacy.
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My gut is that you will see that part emerge only when one of the other parties takes a dive. The model for a party going away and being replaced is the Whigs getting replaced by the Republicans, and in our system, I think its very unlikely to happen any other way.
Maybe 30-40 years ago, Massachusetts used to have multi-person state legislative districts - two or three reps elected from each district. In that system, a third party could have emerged more easily on a statewide level, but it never did.
