Wed Feb 6 14:11:46 EST 2008 Adam Maas wrote: > On 2/6/08, Igor Roshchin <str at komkon.org> 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).
Thanks Adam, I didn't know that. Thanks for pointing it out! Igor -- 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.
