Actually if you listen closely the Greens do run outright nut jobs at
least as often as the Libertarians, sadly many in the Democratic party
are close enough them that their lunacy gets lost in the general noise.
Adam Maas wrote:
> On 2/6/08, Igor Roshchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> This is one of the idiosyncrasies of the US electorial system:
>> In my opinion, the fact that primaries are limited to only two parties
>> prevent other parties coming to light, and hence prevent them from
>> gaining more public support. Primaries (which run for several months)
>> give a lot of exposure to the candidates from the Republican and
>> Democratic parties. Other parties' candidates do not get that exposure.
>> Taking into account that majority of the voters' response is based on
>> what they gets into their brain via regular bombardment of TV/Radio/media,
>> this gives unfair advantage to the two oldest parties.
>>
>> Igor
>>
>>
>
> The primaries are not limited to only two parties. In fact the Green
> Party held 4 primaries on Super Tuesday as well. The Libertarian Party
> doesn't use the primary system, preferring a brokered convention. All
> the other parties are too small to really use the primary system,
> which is only of value to large parties. However the two largest
> parties do get most of the media coverage, with the Green party
> getting the rest (Despite the Libertarian party actually being larger.
> But then again, the Greens don't run outright nutjobs every 4 years
> for the Presidential Ticket).
>
>
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