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). -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
