Electoral Reform- Part 2: Are Third Parties the Answer?

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  November 12th at 09:32 AM  | 

For better or worse, the United States has a two-party system. Initially, we had George Washington and nothing else. There were obvious splits early in our history with John Adams and Thomas Jefferson being the most noticeable, but even there both were Federalists. It was the election of the populist Andrew Jackson that basically gave birth to the Democratic Party then, in 1856, the northern | Read More »