Posted on 10/11/2013 10:41:08 AM PDT by Kazan
(CNSNews.com) - Fifty-two percent of Republicans say that America needs a third party, according to a newly released Gallup poll. Forty-nine percent of Democrats say the same thing.
"In fact,' said Gallup in its analysis of the poll, "this marks the first time that a majority of either party's supporters have said a third party is needed."
The Gallup survey, which interviewed 1,028 adults (18 and over) nationwide, asked: 'In your view, do the Republican and Democratic parties do an adequate job of representing the American people, or do they do such a poor job that a third major party is needed."
Overall, 60 percent said that a third party was needed, 26 percent said the Republicans and Democrats do an adequate job, and 14 percent said they had no opinion.
The 60 percent who said a third party was needed was the highest percentage giving that answer to Gallup since the polling company started asking the question back in 2003. The 26 percent who said the two major parties are doing an adequate is the lowest percentage who have given that answer.
Gallup did not publish any survey data about why those among the 60 percent think a third party is needed.
Boehner may have a legacy yet...
I don't want the GOP to have a chance if they stab us in the back this time. Bad enough they gave us McCain, but to back down on Obamacare, I'll vote third party and hope that enough do to make them lose and see that a lot more people agreed with the TEA Party than they thought.
No. We need a SECOND party to oppose the Big Government Leftist Democrat-Republican Establishment Cabal Party.
The problem with this is that I suspect most people who answered affirmatively would want a more moderate approach to the third party regardless of where they politically align now.
It would have been interesting to see that sort of follow up question.
Third Party ideas are supported by those who do not understand math.
If you do not have the numbers to control the Republican Party, how on Earth are you going to win when EVERYONE votes in the General Election?
imo, altering the Republican party to be a liberty party has a better chance of succeeding than growing a third party to power.
Some proposed names for new party
USIP - US Independence Party
TEA - Taxed Enough Already Party
Exactly!
A movement need to start somewhere. Its 25% vs 75% (GOP+DEM)
“If they allow Obamacare to stay, I will be voting third party.”
I have already called and emailed my Senator Burr and Rep Jones here in NC and said the same thing. Don’t think it will matter.
Amen! Well said.
The unofficial third party is the Tea Party. We are influencing elections! If we continue to hold firm and back conservatives in primaries we CAN make a difference !
Great idea.....a third Party. I love it! It will keep my party in power for decades to come,
Barack Obama
I didn’t dislike the man, but looking back I’ve concluded that Bush 43 mortally wounded the party.
Bush’s fault??? Good grief. Our problems are far bigger than what any one president did and they started long before Bush.
The idea is to completely kill the backstabbing GOP. So what if the Dems win. They suck less than the dems is no longer any reason to vote for the backstabbers.
We lose either way.
We do need a third party, but not they way they think. We need to split the Democrat party into Center-Left and Real Crazies (Green?).
If we split the ‘Pubbies all we do is guarantee Democrat dominance forever.
how on Earth are you going to win when EVERYONE votes in the General Election?”
They won’t win elections.
But the Republicans aren’t winning the elections that count, either.
So, we might as well have a message....
there actually is an American Independent Party.
Bush 41 did a damned good start. 43 was the coup de grâce.
No need for a third party.
Just kick out the Washington elite from the GOP.
The result of the last presidential election is PROOF that you are wrong.
Americans want a party they can vote for that they know will be seeking to reduce American government tyranny. I can think of Democrats and liberals I know who are as disgusted with government intrusion as conservatives are. The trade-off -- AND IT IS A GOOD ONE -- is that so-called "social" conservatives *cough* rick santorum huckabee *cough* will have to relinquish their goal of using government for charity and social engineering.
It would be fine by me.
Watching the GOP leadership doggedly push amnesty (2007, 2013), watching their scurrilous backstabbing of Palin, watching them nominate a liberal from Massachusetts... it’s become more than obvious the Republican Party not only no longer shares my values, but holds me and my views in utter contempt.
Voted exclusively GOP my entire life, but I doubt I ever will again. I’ll have to see Palin or Cruz at the top of the ticket before I’ll even entertain such a notion.
No we don’t
McCain, Ryan, McConnell, cornyn, anyone else who (oh, Graham) has been collaborating with, complimenting, fraternizing and otherwise promoting the party of abortion, post constitutionalism and general socialism, and otherwise just generally not representing his or her voters as republicans and American constitutional interests as advertised and, oh, sworn to do, can form their own party.
And they can prove their laziness and worthlessness in their failure to do as much as to split away and come up with a name for themselves.
No thanks
The Republican Party, the GOP is doing just fine.
It is under new management
Three parties would make impeachment much more feasible, but the gop would swing left if there was a right party.
I’m sure every democrat agrees with this.
Bush 41 was certainly one of the old-line crowd, but was willing to work with conservatives. I think Bush 43 was more conservative than his father, but probably still full of old-line tendencies.
But really once 9/11 and the War on Terror happened, Bush 43 became somewhat irrelevant in the struggle between old-line and conservative until the left managed to demonize the war and the party in power. That was when the old-line types really thought they had a solid lock on re-taking the party, and Bush 43 worked with them because he was pretty much out of allies otherwise.
I’d say they need a second party, at this point.
Then, as it gets closer & closer to election day, those same people start dropping like flies & bending over backwards to explain why we MUST, MUST, MUST vote for some lukewarm, quasi-liberal GOP candidate for the good of the known universe.
Most recent example -- Romney in 2012.
This time will be no different. Mark my words.
Patriot act. Trying to build two nations and failing miserably. TSA. Medicare part D. Light bulb ban. TARP. Spending increased faster than it did under Clinton. Amnesty, three times we had to tell the jerk not just no, but hell no. He earned lots of blame.
/johnny
That’s a little low... I am certain it’s more than 52%
We’ll know soon enough! ;)
McConnell and Boehner better understand their actions can have serious conseuquences.
Fiscal responsibility is a winning idea and if the GOP wants to be the Grand Obamalite Party they will pay.
I think that was effectively done during about hour two of the filibuster.
Last ones to realize it will be the whimpering McCain and McConnell in the months to come.
THe moderate electorate will continue to cry< ‘stop the bickering’, like an overindulgent mother. But the new leaders will be rubbing dirt on it in the huddle,, and will come out again, unapologetically.
That’s worse...
Organizations are an easy way to control the sheeple.
This is due to simple arithmetic:
instead of having to control every member of an organization directly,
one only has to control a few leaders at the top of the organization - in order to control the voice of the whole organization. This effectively silences every rank-and-file members, who simple become the organization’s sheeple. Their only recourse is to quit the organization, but typically they are presented with alterior benefits to staying in.
Political parties, being organizations, enable easy wholesale control of “the masses”.
If a populace won’t stand for 1-party control, one only has to create a multi-party system in order to provide the illusion of “political competition”.
Ergo, most of the sheeple can be deluded into thinking they are being “mostly” “represented” by one of the political “teams”.
The “teams” simply must always have differing views on every political issue. Then the sheeple see “multiple sides” to every issue, and find that they “win some, they lose some”. In this way, most never “feel” completely unrepresented.
Adding parties or eliminating them altogether would be a start towards somewhat watering down the effectiveness of the financial oligarchy’s political control - unless or until they came up with alternate control strategies.
Exactly.
I wonder about this poll. Of course there are a lot of democrat supporters in the republican party, which, I guess, is the problem.
If Cruz was on the ballot as a Republican in YOUR area, would you vote for him?
You have answered my question!
Elections are not about your ego or your pride. This is about the future of our country and I will not listen to Third Party fools who base their decisions on EMOTION!
Right. A second party would suffice.
Well blame away, ignore the bigger problems and see how much gets resolved.
Kansas58 wrote: “Third Party ideas are supported by those who do not understand math.”
Well, Kansas58, you have a right to be wrong on this one. That is a common thought tossed out by folks who believe that the pubbies still represent Constitutional Principles, and as a consequence, they stand in opposition to the dhimmicraps.
Nothing could be further from the truth. A cursory review of the past few years leads one to the inescapable conclusion that the pubbies and the dhimmicraps have much more in common than at odds.
We understand math. And, now matter how you tally it, the current political landscape looks like this: D + R = STATUS QUO. And, STATUS QUO = D - R. The only for that to work out is if R = 0.
A third party, founded on conservative principles, and faithful to those principles, will take some votes from the GOPe, that’s true. However, if something doesn’t change, this nation will slide further down that slippery slope to socialism, regardless of which of the current parties is in ‘power’.
It is time for the people of this nation to reclaim their voice, to stand up to the dhimmicraps AND the pubbies, to let them all know that the power of this nation springs from its people.
A new Third Party, TEA Party if you will, is a grand place to start.
We don’t need no stinking third party.
The secret to restoring the integrity of the federal government is the following. Regardless of the global popularity of Downton Abbey, “DC Follies” is actually the most popular soap opera in the world. And the trick to restoring the constitutional republic is to find another soap opera that can hold people’s attention to their TVs between highly profitable commercials as well as DC Follies can.
There are “3rd Parties” out there now. How many more do they want?
http://www.politics1.com/parties.htm
Constitution
Green
Libertarian
and then some lesser ones;
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G12/parties.phtml
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