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The impact of third parties on American politics extends far beyond their capacity to attract votes. Minor parties, historically, have been a source of important policy innovations. Women’s suffrage, the graduated income tax, and the direct election of senators, to name a few, were all issues that third parties espoused first.
- Rosenstone, Behr and Lazarus
5 points
Was someone arguing that third parties don’t have good ideas?? Are you just posting nonsequiters for fun? I don’t get it.
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just stating the fact that most progressive policy in the USA comes from one of the two major parties absorbing third party policy to win close races.
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