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The United States of America is ready, even more than ripe, for a viable third political party.

A fact clearly evidenced in the 2008 Presidential election. A new party with no label, a grassroots party without a name elected black-horse candidate Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States. Relatively unknown Barack Obama elected to office by an equally black-horse team of citizens, which also seemed to come as a blinding light from nowhere.

For the past 40 years, voters have gone to the polls and exited with the expression, "I voted for the lesser of two evils". According to an Ohio University survey in 2006, mistrust of the government had reached an all time high edging 80% of the people did not trust government.

Third party political groups have sprung up, but none viable above directing votes away from candidates of the Republican and Democratic big players.

Though founded on the principle of "We the People" as the government, the government became a game between two major political parties. Republicans and Democrats putting forth candidates who the people now expect tell lies on their way across the touchdown.

Voters appeared to be apathetic. Over the years, most registered to vote and, in doing so, picked a party label. One most often choosing the party label to which their parents belonged; some few picking the label that might infuriate the parents. Few paid attention to the platforms that were often the same but for a few strategy differences. Platforms of "conservative" and "liberal" that in time the two parties completely switched with one another over the years.

Historically, the Republican Party, most liberal, originally founded for the soul purpose and platform of electing abolitionist Abe Lincoln to the Presidency. A platform with which the now flipped anti-liberal Republican Party attempts to take credit. The once ultra-conservative Democratic Party, once infamous for its mistreatment of the black person and poorer class; would come to write by the hand of John F. Kennedy and pass the most liberal and sweeping Civil Liberties Legislation in history. Legislation for which, in our time of misinformation, the Republican Party will sometimes attempt to credit itself.

Both, Republican and Democrat bigwigs of their respective parties will scratch the head and wonder just what happened in the 2008 Presidential election. This, the Democratic Party will take the credit though they did not truly elect President Barack Obama. A third party

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