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Gallup: 52% of Republicans Say America Needs a 3rd Party
CNS News ^ | 10/11/2013 | Terry Jeffery

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.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: gopestablishment; republicanparty; rinos; rinossplitgop; teaparty; thirdparty
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To: Kazan

That’s worse...


41 posted on 10/11/2013 11:08:14 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Kazan

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.


42 posted on 10/11/2013 11:08:21 AM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: barmag25

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.


43 posted on 10/11/2013 11:08:43 AM PDT by stanne
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To: JRandomFreeper

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!


44 posted on 10/11/2013 11:08:45 AM PDT by Kansas58
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To: MortMan

Right. A second party would suffice.


45 posted on 10/11/2013 11:09:23 AM PDT by stanne
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To: barmag25
I’m sure every democrat agrees with this.

Not at all. Democrats recognize how much easier RINOs make their lives, because they remove the possibility of any real opposition. RINOs may as well be on the Democrat's payroll, they do such a great job of paving the way for the left. Maybe some democrats agree, largely because they are often blithering idiots. But the smart ones recognize that a real, unified opposition, even if it didn't gain majority status, would cause a serious impediment to their plans of transforming America.
46 posted on 10/11/2013 11:09:30 AM PDT by jjsheridan5
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To: SpeakerToAnimals

Well blame away, ignore the bigger problems and see how much gets resolved.


47 posted on 10/11/2013 11:09:32 AM PDT by LuvFreeRepublic
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To: Kansas58

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.


48 posted on 10/11/2013 11:10:06 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2016; I pray we make it that long.)
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To: Kazan; All

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.


49 posted on 10/11/2013 11:10:37 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Kazan

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


50 posted on 10/11/2013 11:10:56 AM PDT by deport
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To: Kansas58
I won't vote for your liberal(R). Period. You GOP types need to get that through your thick skulls.

Elections are about principle.

/johnny

51 posted on 10/11/2013 11:11:53 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: TWhiteBear

Those who push for a Third Party have NEVER won an election in their lives.
They have NEVER had a political or legislative victory.
They are acting out of emotion.
It is a stupid idea.


52 posted on 10/11/2013 11:13:37 AM PDT by Kansas58
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To: Kansas58
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!

Is this an example of irony? Or is this merely projection?
53 posted on 10/11/2013 11:13:51 AM PDT by jjsheridan5
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To: Kazan
We need a third, fourth and fifth party, Lainie, a dynamic political environment where political parties and ideers come and go, instead of this two party system, where both parties are for nothing, no principles except goodness, goodness without quotation marks!
54 posted on 10/11/2013 11:14:46 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Kansas58
Third Party ideas are supported by those who do not understand math.

The Republican Party is supported by those who do not understand conservatism and principles.

55 posted on 10/11/2013 11:15:02 AM PDT by gdani
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To: JRandomFreeper

No, elections are about DEFEATING THE ENEMY!

The ENEMY in the primary will be any RINO who we can beat.

The ENEMY in the General election will be the Democrat.

Elections are not about your ego.

Suck it up and defeat the enemy, you will NEVER have a perfect candidate.

“Put not your faith in Princes”


56 posted on 10/11/2013 11:16:33 AM PDT by Kansas58
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To: Kazan

We have them. They failed in the past, fail now, and fail in the future.


57 posted on 10/11/2013 11:17:07 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: Kansas58

> Third Party ideas are supported by those who do not understand math.

Speaking as someone who has a significant level of mathematical expertise, you’re full of it. The only person in either party who has proposed a serious balanced budget is Ron Paul, who is no longer in office.

The math-aware also know that the Federal Reserve is presently engaged in destroying the US dollar a la Weimar. Outside of a handful of marginal Republicans and a couple of Dems, nobody outside of third parties is even talking about this.

The not-mathematically-challenged know that there will be massive defaults because more debt has been issued than there is actual income to pay off that debt (never mind paying for things like survival as well).

We, the mathematically literate, understand all about exponential growth curves and diminishing returns, and as a result understand that few in either party have any sort of serious grip on the mathematical reality of US finances at all.


58 posted on 10/11/2013 11:17:56 AM PDT by thoughtomator 2.0
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To: jjsheridan5
You dont get it do you?
A Third Party at this point would give the Liberal Democrats 100% control of everything.
It is suicide for Conservatives.
59 posted on 10/11/2013 11:18:04 AM PDT by Kansas58
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To: Kansas58

Say what you will about a 3rd party approach, the approach of blindly voting “R” has gotten us exactly ... nowhere. The government expands unimpeded, in terms of size, scope, power, and unaccountability. The Republican Party has not even proven itself worthy of being called a “speed-bump”. You cite logic and “mathematics”, but reality and history show something quite different.

Until there is a valid, unified, opposition party this country will continue to be transformed, as it has for 50+ years.


60 posted on 10/11/2013 11:19:08 AM PDT by jjsheridan5
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