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Is America's two party system working well for our republic?

Results so far:

Yes
25% 43 votes Total: 170 votes
No
75% 127 votes
  • by Michael Patrick

    First, let's kill all the lawyers, as Shakespeare wrote in "Henry VI." Beyond that, our Republic permits as many parties as can organize to run candidates for office. It works...read more

  • 2 of 3

    by Cody Hodge

    For the past two hundred years, Americans have voted for a candidate from a rotating door of major parties. Whether it be the federalists vs the anti-federalists, the original r...read more

  • 3 of 3

    by Michael Isaacson

    The theory of a two-party system is vastly inferior to simply voting for a person based on his or her merits, and is also inferior to having several parties, who would more accu...read more

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    by Edward Hall

    "I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more co...read more

  • 2 of 13

    by Chris Messner

    The recent bipartisan defeat of earmark reform legislation in the Senate is but the latest example of how the hard-working, put-upon taxpayers of the United States are ill-serve...read more

  • by Paul Wylie

    Wanted: More Parties Please! One of the most fundamental freedoms that Americans have enjoyed, the right to free speech, is under attack from not just one of the Parties that...read more

  • 4 of 13

    by A.R. Cruz

    Are the two party systems really working for America? The answer is No. Should America reform the political landscape by changing the two party systems of Democrat and Re...read more

  • 5 of 13

    by Gary Betts

    America's two-party system is not working well for Americans and it is a disgrace to democracies around the world. In the United States there are only two parties of any consequ...read more

  • 6 of 13

    by Joshua Jones

    Currently the majority of US elections are based upon the two party systems. This system is flawed and hemorrhaging patriotism by the bucket-load. There are third and fourth par...read more

  • 7 of 13

    by Roberto Alvarez-Galloso

    The two party system in the United States is outdated and is a failure. It is a rare thing that the Republicans and Democrats preach and talk about human rights in the world whi...read more

  • 8 of 13

    by Will Ourand

    The two party system is often defended on the notion that it balances out both sides of the political spectrum by allowing for representation of both ends of the political ideol...read more

  • 9 of 13

    by Linda Gehring

    Republican? Democrat? The Merging of the Two 'Mainstream' Parties into the CPA Now that we are almost two years into this travesty of a 'selection of the next President or ...read more

  • 10 of 13

    by Ronald Gibson

    If you know that the father of our nation warned us against the evils of a party system and refused to join any parties himself, then how can you possibly defend the system that...read more

  • 11 of 13

    by Shane Morey

    The history of America beginning with the American Revolution to the Civil War, the Labor Movements, the Women's Suffrage Movements, and the Black Power Revolution are stories o...read more

  • 12 of 13

    by Eddie French

    Not long ago I wrote an article The Autumn of Politics I was surprised at the response I got. I expected to be 'Educated' by the political savvy of US Newsviners for my - assume...read more

  • by Bill Whitney

    I believe that our two party system worked pretty well at one time but now with all the idiots and radicals in the world, the two party system is like almost everything else, it...read more

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