...has anyone stopped to wonder why it is that, when the Founding Fathers put things together for this country, they never intended our political system to be a TWO PARTY system??

Doesn't it say something about us as a country that the media can dictate who is the best choice to be president fromonly two parties????

There were several other parties' candidates available for voting, but yet, the media only paid attention to the two " major " parties.

Unless someone can honestly say ( and I don't think there are very many that CAN make the claim ) that they looked into ALL of the candidates, they can make no claim at all to having made an " informed " decision about who to cast their ballot for.

The political system is a joke. It's also NOTHING like what the Founding Fathers intended it to be.

I agree...I tend to pay more attention to the independent canidates myself (Ron Paul) but I do a little bit of research on the center stage canidates, mainly enough to see how screwed we will come out.

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It would appear that people aren't willing to step up and say they made an " informed " choice.

Come on people. Show me why I am wrong here.

There are a few people who will look into all the candidates.

Unfortunately, there are far more " sheeple " out there who will just swallow what the media tells them and base their vote on what the talking heads on TV tell them.

Very true about the media ... but if you vote for a third-party candidate, it means nothing as he/she has ZERO chance.

If we went to a coalition style of government, then the vote would count. The way we elect people today is less the fault of the media than it is greed. It's too expensive to get elected without one of the two parties' cash.

I had hoped Ross Perot was going to start to chip away at the system but his party floundered after one election.

I'll step up and admit that I didn't really pay attention to the other candidates. Why? As Clean pointed out, they really have no chance of winning and I don't have the time or energy to be endlessly seeking pointless information about something that doesn't matter in the long run.

Is that a bad attitude? Hell yes, not one I'm particularly proud of. And I hate that we have a 2-party system and completely agree that this isn't the way our system was designed and supposed to be. Hopefully, one of these days we'll have a candidate with access to resources the way the major parties do and this will change.

Or, we as a people could make an effort to work the system from within. If this is the system we're stuck with, then we as a people need to step up and figure out a way to make our so-called leaders work for us, and not themselves.

Well since news reporting has been lowered to tabliod toilet trash they can't handle multi task anymore...if they can't handle two partys how do you expect them to handle anything? the mind numb idiots they are... CNN. MSNBC. It's pathetic.

Geez???

you forgot the Cesar of the dumbing down empire..
FOX "News".

But the main reason that those candidates don't have a chance to win is because people don't take enough time to look into their platforms. If more people did take the time and energy, then those candidates would be in a much better position to actually make the system work the way it was intended to.



Unfortunately, for as long as we are a media driven society, none of those candidates stand much chance of gaining the level of support needed to garner the necessary votes.

I would be willing to bet that if you went up to 100 random strangers and asked them to name even one of the other candidates who were on the ticket, you'd be lucky to get ONE that could name one of them.

Why?? Because MSNBC, FOX news and CNN didn't tell them anything about them.



We aren't really stuck with it. We just need more people that actually want to change the system. Rather than just paying lip service to change.