'Americans' appetite for a third party
has never been greater': Gallup poll
Washington Times,
by
Jennifer Harper
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
2/16/2021 11:44:54 AM
Interest in a third political party is intensifying and now has reached an unprecedented level of approval according to a new Gallup poll. “Americans’ appetite for a third party has never been greater in Gallup’s nearly two decades of polling on the subject, and now a majority of Republicans are joining the usual majority of independents in wanting that option,” wrote senior editor Jeffrey M. Jones in an analysis released Monday. “Sixty-two percent of U.S. adults say the ‘parties do such a poor job representing the American people that a third party is needed,’ an increase from 57% in September,” he said.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
tsquare 2/16/2021 11:49:58 AM (No. 697952)
I wish for a second party, we now only have the hypocrats
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 2/16/2021 11:53:02 AM (No. 697956)
Third? Right now we have the Uniparty and nothing else.
I would like a Constitutional Party.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
idahoskook 2/16/2021 12:05:53 PM (No. 697978)
New Party Now!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bad-hair 2/16/2021 12:07:16 PM (No. 697982)
Before somebody brings up the "Ross Perot" canard, Perot wasn't a 3rd party. He was an independent presidential candidate.
Perot did not have 80 MILLION proven followers.
A MAGA party can take 30 house seats or more and 10 senates or more in 2022, not 2024.
Joe can't sign what congress can't pass. We have 4 years to deal with Mattressback.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 2/16/2021 12:11:34 PM (No. 697989)
Every time I think of a ''third party'' I get visions of Ross Perot. Help; it's keeping me awake.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Clinger 2/16/2021 12:11:39 PM (No. 697990)
Oh goody a chance for America to come in third place.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ribicon 2/16/2021 12:17:35 PM (No. 698003)
Poppy Bush's finger-in-the wind liberalism gave rise to Ross Perot. Would a second term of Bush 1 have been that much different from term 1 of Klinton? Country would have been on the wrong path and "we need something different" would be the cry, something different being full Democrat instead of Democrat Lite GOP. Same thing happened after Liberal Dubya, whose many failures (healthcare reform was a big one) saddled us with Barack Hussein Obama.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
kono 2/16/2021 12:21:13 PM (No. 698006)
With #s 1 and 2...
We don't really need a third party, but an actual second party. The uniparty has teamed up to fleece our country, nullify our liberties, and progressively transform us into an authoritarian socialist nation.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 2/16/2021 12:32:51 PM (No. 698028)
Poster #4, you're the one who brought Ross Perot into the conversation. To my dying day I believe he was paid for running and taking votes from GHWB and letting the Clintons win. If not for him, they would have spent the 90's in an Arkansas Prison for corruption instead of spending 8 years in the White House. I hope that on his death bed he regretted what he did.
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#6 - how did the Republican Party work out for us this election?
There is an apapetite for an alternative party because we don’t like our current choices. I don’t intend on being part of the “fix the GOP crowd”. They have lost me for good. Even if President Trump decides to give them CPR. The GOP is a zombie.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Safari Man 2/16/2021 1:12:57 PM (No. 698070)
Third party cannot win. GOP can’t even win as long as dims control the counting. The only thing that matters is winning, else you’re nothing more than a wagging finger.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MissMann 2/16/2021 1:34:53 PM (No. 698094)
If 70%+ Republicans would follow Trump to a third party, I say make the RINOs start a third party and we keep the GOP and kick them out. Why should we do the heavy lift when we outnumber them?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Ribicon 2/16/2021 1:41:07 PM (No. 698101)
I didn't vote for him, but Ross Perot was right on the money about the giant sucking sound caused by Globalist GHW Bush's NAFTA plan to deindustrialize the USA, shifting industrial output to Mexico and then to China, allowing the latter to become the menace they are right now. You'd think a former CIA director would understand these things, unless of course they have a different definition than we do about our place on the world stage.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mc squared 2/16/2021 1:48:47 PM (No. 698112)
We all already have several parties: Libertarian, Constitution, Green, Communist.... Third parties don't even tally on election night.
I don't see how any new party could overcome the power, influence and money the Uniparty already has.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
fishbone 2/16/2021 2:31:49 PM (No. 698148)
We should also determine who we "allow" into our party. That is, don't let someone just say they belong. If someone enters and then stabs us in the back, then kick them out. Only allow true conservatives. And, fight, fight, fight! (Oops, am I allowed to say that?)
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 2/16/2021 2:45:04 PM (No. 698173)
Gallup is trying to shore up the Dems through division of their opponents.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Lazyman 2/16/2021 2:45:24 PM (No. 698174)
A party that sticks together can win just like the Dims do it. You don't see them appointing a special prosecutor to look at voter fraud in the nature of Sessions appointing Muller to put a cancer on Trumps presidency.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MDConservative 2/16/2021 3:39:15 PM (No. 698246)
#4 - Perot's Reform Party is a direct offspring of his '92 independent run. In '96 its nominee was...Ross Perot, and he got 8.4% of the vote after 19% in '92. In 2020 the Reform Party ran Rocky De La Fuente, whoever he is. The candidate got .06% of the vote.
So, the Patriot/MAGA/Trump/Whatever party will butt up against the Dems and Republicans. It will nominate, who else, FPDT. And he will be on the ballot in all 50 states, with hundreds of millions in a war chest and plenty of free media coverage. And unlike the Bullmoose Party before him...with the ever popular Teddy Roosevelt heading the ticket...he will win back the White House. Yeah, the UNIPARTY has forgiven him...no sabotage this time. Harris wins in a walk.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
padiva 2/16/2021 3:54:39 PM (No. 698265)
Keep PDT in the Rep party. Let the Rinos leave. PDT can use the down ticket support of the Reps.
Meanwhile the liberals are egging on the Rep divisions to their advantage.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
chumley 2/16/2021 4:01:40 PM (No. 698272)
By all means stay with an abusive spouse who has betrayed you, beat you, and refuses to work despite endless promises. After all, if you move out you wont have anyone waiting at home for you.
The republicans have snookered us too many times. They try to lose, and when they accidentally win they refuse to govern. They did everything they could (usually by inaction) to help destroy Trump. They raise the debt just like the communists do. They legislate rights away just like the communists do. They refuse to undo what the communists have done and their rallying cry is "The votes arent there!" I notice that line never stopped the Pelosi and Schumer crowd.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 2/16/2021 4:37:31 PM (No. 698302)
Whichever party controls the dominion-like late night vote counting wins every election.
Only fools would argue that....
And please DITCH MITCH!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
columba 2/16/2021 5:37:06 PM (No. 698353)
The Republican Party came from the dregs of the Whigs before the civil War. The candidate (Fremont) lost.
The next candidate (four years later) became the 16th president.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
smokincol 2/16/2021 8:04:25 PM (No. 698517)
we have gone through this "third party" discussion before and, alas, we still have only two parties. President Donald J. Trump will decide when and who will organize and administer a "third party" and until he makes that decision, I rebuke all talk of a "third party". polls and pollsters are the most sensationalist purveyors of nonsense in our society today. they make money from people who want their opinions broadcast to the people without putting their name on the data. I wonder who paid Gallup to conduct this "poll"?
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A second party would be a great idea. There already is the Constitution Party, which is based on the principles that the GOP pretends to represent during election season, but they don't get much traction because most Americans think there's only one choice, that being the uniparty of Romney and Schumer and company.