General Discussion

Republucan voter, so I would think at least SOME republican voters can learn. I've also voted fifth party (when Perot was the 3rd party) without either ill effects, nor with any good effects.

I think the whole third party salvation is quite ridiculous. Those who hope for some sort of 3rd party to sweep progressives into power. If the progressive cannot win the Democratic primary then they are not gonna win the general election. From where I sit though, we do not even have a 2nd party. Right now, for four Congressional seats in Kansas, I have no idea who is gonna run for those offices in the Democratic Party. Even the Democratic Party does not seem to have candidates. So where are these 3rd party candidates gonna come from? If this election is like the last one, of 150 legislative races, Kansas Democrats will only have candidates for about 120 of them. That is even true locally. My county, where I happen to be treasurer of the Democratic Party, has three legislative districts (actually four if you include the section of Basehor which is in the 39th, but being in the south of the county, I don't hear as a much about them. Novak may be running (again, for the 3rd time)).

Anyway, of those 3 districts, right now we only have a candidate in the 40th - the incumbent. In the 42nd for years the Republican incumbent ran unopposed. Worse yet though, in the 2010 elections, the Democrats of South Dakota did not even have a candidate for the US Senate! So I don't see a viable 3rd party springing up like a weed. That progressive 3rd party candidate should be running in the Democratic primary.