Third Party

Third Party

It’s been tried before. Actually there are hundreds of parties that are neither Democrat nor Republican. What people are referring to is a party that miraculously gains enough votes to win the Electoral College in 2008. But, unless this mysterious phenomenon can also win a majority in the House and Senate, about all the new president will be able to do is shut down the government by refusing to sign various appropriation bills. The most a third party has been able to do in history is to put pressure on the most similar-minded party. Since both parties compete to assure corporate America that they’ll give more of the store away than the other, a third party shouldn’t have much effect.