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Re:US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules by CalChris on Thursday March 23, 2017 @08:18PM (#13945551)
A 3rd party isn't going to win any seats. The Libertarian and Green parties are convenient parking spaces for quasi-protest votes. The Tea Party was always the Republican Party. I'm a progressive liberal and I'm a registered Democrat.

We have First Past The Post voting and Duverger's Law says as a result we will have two real parties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law

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Re:US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules by pmyteh on Thursday March 23, 2017 @10:21PM (#13946077)
Duverger's Law describes tendencies, not inevitabilities. Canada has FPTP and several parties in Parliament. UK the same. A regional split in the party system, or a conservative insurgency against the Republicans in Alabama, or a liberal one against the Dems in DC, or any one of a number of other scenarios would do it.
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