Close two-party politics is a recipe for nasty two-party politics.
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In a two-party system, especially a polarized two-party system organized around a presidency, Republicans in Congress are essentially trapped.
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"The two-party system is a two-party dinosaur, and they're about to come in contact with the comet here," Johnson told CNN's Chris Cuomo.
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The two-party systemIn order to make a majority government probable, we need something approaching a two-party system, as in Britain and in the United States.
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It is based in the underlying zero-sum electoral logic that defines the American two-party system and the winner-take-all elections that make the two-party system possible.
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" He also slammed the two-party system, calling it "broken.
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One is the way politicians get elected, which is where the two-party system gets constructed, and the other is the way policy gets passed, which is where the two-party system holds back progress.
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In a two-party system you need opposing benches, he maintained.
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He's blowing the entire two party system out of the water.
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NUMBER TWO, THE SYSTEM IS DESIGNED FOR A TWO-PARTY RACE.
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This is the logic of our two-party system right now.
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THE election in June saw the return of two-party politics.
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Only 28% believe the two-party system for presidential elections works.
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And I think America has to question its two party system.
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Trump capitalized on frustration and alienation with the two-party system.
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But so are all party coalitions in our two-party system.
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Two smaller parties took seats, breaking the traditional two-party system.
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The result exposed the fragmentation of the old two-party electorate.
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OPINION | Campaign finance and the two-party system are choking democracy.
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But our two-party political system is an entirely different story.
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McMullin believes the Republican Party and two-party system are broken.
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How significant is the black vote within our two-party system?
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America needs a healthy conservative party in our two-party system.
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With pets, as in politics, ours is a two-party system.
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In succession, he crushed two party establishments and ended two dynasties.
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In a two-party system, such behavior can precipitate a crisis.
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As a result, America has always been a two-party nation.
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If you look at shares of the two-party vote in the 20th century, the presidential candidate who got the biggest two-party share was Warren Harding, now widely regarded as the worst president in American history.
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Because of the two-party system, Republicans are stuck with Donald Trump.
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Nader's candidacy weakened the Democrats, but it strengthened the two-party system.
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Will the election break the mould of the country's two-party system?
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Nationwide, only 43 percent of state legislative seats have two-party competition.
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Bannon, who hates the entrenched two-party system, has long admired Gabbard.
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But it also shows how outmoded Australia's two-party system has grown.
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There are now Republican majorities in 70 percent of two-party statehouses.
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What if the two-party alignment is being transformed into something new?
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American politics' constancy is the two-party system, not the two parties.
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The highly polarized state of our two-party system accentuates the danger.
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The two-party system, which is called the duopoly, really doesn't work.
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In a two-party system, one party's loss is another party's gain.
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He would disrupt the two-party system by mobilizing an angry minority.
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The two-party American system means that the issue has polarized voters.
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Americans would still be stuck with two-party rule under this system.
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The backdrop is an America in which two-party politics is decomposing.
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Fuelled by two-party machine politics, corruption has been endemic for generations.
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She condemned the employers, the capitalist machine, the corrupt two-party system.
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To me, it is a deliberate stand against the two-party system.
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US's two-party political system creates candidates with two faces At age 70, I've watched our two-party system rapidly evolve into opposing factions more bent on political succession than positive gains for America and the American people.
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But in our two-party, winner-take-all presidentialist system, they were stuck.
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And the two-party system makes it almost impossible for parties to collapse.
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Sounds like kids have some pretty colorful opinions about the two-party system.
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Two party newspapers came out for him, as well as 12 distinguished lawyers.
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In two-party politics, a "pathological liar" is always better than a Democrat.
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How did a two-party race end up being a one-party affair?
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There is one possible solution to the woes of the two-party system.
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One is electoral reform, with a view to ending the two-party system.
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The election increased the fragmentation of what was once a two-party system.
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This is the fatal flaw in America's highly unusual two-party, presidentialist system.
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But he won far less than 50.9 percent of the two-party vote.
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The vertical axis shows Obama's predicted lead in the two-party popular vote.
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The two-party system is breaking down because of the pressures of Brexit.
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Obama is in New York on Wednesday to speak at two party fundraisers.
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If enough citizens vote third party, it will rattle the two party system.
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He placed his faith in democracy, the franchise, and the two-party system.
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But one thing is clear: The country's two-party system has been upended.
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Our two-party system is largely a product of our antiquated voting process.
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Let's boot the two-party system and open it up to other parties.
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Before the vote in Parliament on Thursday, the two party leaders traded recriminations.
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Before the vote in Parliament on Thursday, the two party leaders traded recriminations.
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But absent those reforms, I think we're stuck with a two-party system.
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Critics of the two-party "duopoly" tend to make three mistakes from the start.
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But a two-party system is inadequate to represent the diversity of public opinion.
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But the split-screen debates in the two party primaries tell a different story.
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If that is the case, he may have violated California's "two-party consent" law.
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Two party members were killed in Antioquia province last week after a campaign event.
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It is hard for a party to collapse completely in a two-party system.
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And especially in a two-party system, everything depends on holding your coalition together.
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People are sick of the two-party system and desperate for an alternative option.
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Four years ago, Spain's two-party system turned into a much more fragmented landscape.
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When it comes to the two-party war, the differences could not be starker.
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The emerging Abe-Koike rivalry will likely spawn a two-party system in Japan.
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The two-party system does not facilitate change; it stifles it and weakens debate.
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Especially in recent decades, the two-party system has been strengthened by negative partisanship.
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But herein lies the great advantage of the two-party system — for party leaders.
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Rather than being one two-party nation, we are becoming two one-party nations.
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There are policies that could potentially break the two-party stranglehold on our politics.
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Author Lee Drutman explains why the two-party system is harmful to American Democracy.
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The two-party system seems to actively encourage division where none needs to exist.
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A direct popular election for president would completely alter the current two-party system.
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"I was just preserving the two-party system," he said jokingly to me afterward.
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The reversion to the traditional, two-party structure of British politics could help Labour.
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All of this is distorting American politics and weakening our two-party political system.
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"The two-party system has failed Americans," Gibbs told CNN's Kate Bolduan on Monday.
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Roxy Richards: What do you think of our two-party system in the US?
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When and where this political issue arises, we are, without reservations, on the side of the traditional two-party system that fights its feuds in public and honestly; and we shall advocate the restoration of the two-party system at all costs.
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Do you think our constrained two-party system can survive or absorb these political transformations?
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But under the strain of slump and separatism, the old two-party system has splintered.
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That's unfortunate because Schultz has a point about Democrats and the broken two-party system.
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In 2012 Democrats won 51% of the two-party vote but just 46% of seats.
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Democrats won 54% of the total two-party vote—and also 54% of House seats.
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Based on opinion polls, the Socialists and Ciudadanos could together form a two-party coalition.
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The election increased the fragmentation of what was once a two-party system in Spain.
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Investors have focused on Italy's spending plans since the two-party coalition came to power.
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Its rules, written for a two-party system, allow one deputy to filibuster a law.
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Despite its ever-shifting political landscape, Israel has known some form of two-party alternation.
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But average them and you get Trump winning 49.9 percent of the two-party vote.
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" Schultz's reasoning: "I will run as a centrist independent, outside of the two-party system.
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The two party committees also reported $1.4 million in expenses to aide Mr. Johnson's campaign.
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The predominantly two-party system had degenerated into a "one strong, many weak" party system.
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They say the political process and the two-party system are unresponsive to their concerns.
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He was the distinctively coifed canary in the coal mine of American two-party politics.
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Yet as long as Britain's two-party system remains intact, the pendulum will eventually swing.
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Arguably the biggest boundary today's socialists are willing to cross is the two-party system.
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America's electoral system strongly favors a two-party system, more so than any European country.
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This is yet another reason why many Americans are frustrated with the two-party system.
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The election shattered Spain's two-party system, but also left the country in political deadlock.
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In this country we've gone with a two-party system and winner-take-all elections.
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Like Washington, SAG is a two-party system; there's a liberal and a conservative party.
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But there was one crucial difference: decades of partisan polarization between America's two-party system.
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If we learned anything from 2016, it's that two-party systems sometimes end in chaos.
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Back in 2016, Democrats won 51.1 percent of the two-party vote share for president.
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This has beneficially challenged a two-party system – not to mention monarchy – long calcified by corruption.
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This is a promise of more and bigger flies in the two-party ointment to come.
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In the two-party system, Republicans in Congress need Trump as much as he needs them.
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The state used to be much more of a two-party state than it is today.
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This is not to say Schultz is wrong about the problems of two-party political systems.
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The American people deserve so much more than the broken two party system is providing them.
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The old two-party establishment has become at least a three-and-a-half-party establishment.
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It overestimated the share of the two-party vote going to the incumbent (Democratic) party candidate.
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In a two-party system, opposition parties tend to eventually renew themselves while out of power.
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Kill two party snack birds with one stone here and heap pizza toppings on your nachos.
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A slew of other NRCC ads launched Tuesday also don't refer to the two party nominees.
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And the two-party system makes it especially perilous for congressional Republicans to turn on Trump.
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"Yeah, I believe in the two-party system," he replied in the CNBC "Squawk Box" interview.
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Young people are planning to break from the two-party system in unprecedented numbers this year.
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I don't think Trump is operating with some grand scheme to break the two-party stranglehold.
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I get that a majority of Americans think the current two-party system is failing us.
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The two party leaders differ on how to achieve Brexit and have contrasting relationships with Trump.
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Our two-party system has not undergone a major realignment since the South became solidly Republican.
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"Having a robust two-party system acting within the bounds of the Constitution" said the other.
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"The end times, maybe?" he replied, before criticizing the two-party system as out of touch.
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Political parties, especially in a two-party system, must be "big tents" with some ideological diversity.
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Our two-party single-winner elections generate lots of lopsided districts where residents' votes are irrelevant.
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The Framers despised political parties, but what they really feared was a binary two-party system.
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JOE KERNEN: I saw a headline that it was the end of the two-party system.
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Things can't change in the way we need them to within a corrupt two-party system.
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It was not conceptualized around a two-party system, nor was it to be popularly elected.
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Two party insiders said at the time that Mr. Xi had expressed support for Mr. Wen.
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Demosisto withheld the names of the two party members, one of whom subsequently quit the party.
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Because these elections are held in single-member plurality districts, we have a two-party system.
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The attack could be more damaging in the case of a two-party "smart contract," Vessenes noted.
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"This is a two-party system that I don't want to be a part of," Bellisario said.
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It's shameful how we operate today in a two party system in which corruption and selfishness abound.
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That's what it must feel like to be a third-party candidate in a two-party country.
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Halle Berry added, "Love LOVE this," and Jordin Sparks cheered, "Ahhhh Happy Birthday" with two party emojis.
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The verdict formalises the collapse of Bangladesh's two-party system and the demise of the Zia dynasty.
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And let's not kid ourselves: the numbers are not far off making a two-party coalition possible.
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Yet in 2018 Democrats won over 54% of the two-party vote but only 1990% of seats.
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Cillizza: You make some serious proposals -- break up the United States, end the two-party system etc.
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A successful impeachment would further weaken our already-weak two-party system and portend new social divisions.
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However, Turnbull's conservative government continues to lag behind in the two-party preferred vote, 48 to 52.
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Some people in "our" two-party government, and the press, think that this was a bad idea.
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Here are five other political parties you could join to stick it to the two-party system.
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In both countries, stable two-party systems have given way to wobbly four- or five-party ones.
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Well, the problem in this election is not the two-party system or a dearth of choices.
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Yes time is short, but this is a year of unprecedented dissatisfaction with the two party candidates.
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Since two-party American politics began in the 1860s, all third-party candidates have suffered crushing defeats.
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This is not a metaphor about how hard it is to operate outside our two-party system.
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He feared that a two-party political system would damage America's unity if taken to an extreme.
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And hates both parties: At the same time, Bannon thinks the two-party system is fundamentally corrupt.
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Moreover, countries like Australia that have long used ranked-choice voting have remained essentially two-party systems.
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There is no evidence that there are enough centrists or "pragmatists" to threaten the two-party duopoly.
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It is pointless to engage in the perennial handwringing about the limitations of the two-party system.
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Voters can break out of the two-party trap if they are willing to lead the way.
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The W.F.P. is entirely pragmatic about the limitations of a third party in a two-party system.
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Because America is a two party system, and the Republican Party would become the white people's party.
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America has thrived in a two-party system in which left and right compromise toward the center.
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STEVEN MNUCHIN: I don't think we have to worry about the failure of the two-party system.
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The political disruption we are seeing today is leading to the breakdown of the two-party system.
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Our static two-party system does not meet the needs and varying worldviews of our country today.
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In such a small universe of voters, turnout differences between the two party bases are hugely impactful.
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The poll shows only 9003 in 10 adults agree that the two-party system works fairly well.
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Do we have leaders today capable of breaking the left-right, two-party grid with such an agenda?
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But the American system is resistant to major shocks because of the strength of the two-party structure.
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The British two-party system was masterful at marginalising extreme figures such as Oswald Mosley and Enoch Powell.
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In a two-party system consensus is not highly valued, and ways of thwarting it are easily found.
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There Emmanuel Macron, to whom he feels politically close, swept aside an ossified two-party system last year.
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But the defense lawyers say Pennsylvania law, which requires two-party consent, should be applied in this case.
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But the defense lawyers say Pennsylvania law, which requires two-party consent, should be applied in this case.
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For example, in 2014 Republicans won 53% of the two-party national vote and 57% of the seats.
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Dowd, an outspoken critic of the two-party system, says he wouldn't caucus with either party if elected.
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In a two-party system, it is even more valuable because of the limited choices available to voters.
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Joining the two party leaders were two other former IDF chiefs of staff, Bogie Ya'alon and Gabi Ashkenazi.
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Partisanship can be traced back to the founding fathers when a two-party system first emerged in 1796.
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Nader, much like Sanders, appealed to the many voters who remain fed up with a two party system.
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But Democrats got what we needed to restore a strongly competitive two party system of checks and balances.
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But just because Americans are dissatisfied with the current two-party system doesn't mean it's about to change.
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Mrs Clinton, it appears, had been benefitting from an unsustainable boost from the two party conventions in July.
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An active two-party system within constitutional guidelines fosters compromise, an essential element in reaching public policy agreement.
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But it's still an electoral force — and it's not the only party that's upended the two-party stronghold.
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It also a story that dramatizes the fragility and frustrations of our winner-take-all two-party system.
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Spain's two-party system was broken up in 2015, when Ciudadanos and the far-left Podemos entered Parliament.
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If anything, Spanish politics splintered further, just four years after the collapse of the country's two-party system.
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The panel debated and approved the articles on two party-line votes, sending them to the House floor.
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Then there are the huge logistical hurdles that come with trying to run outside the two-party system.
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The game itself is rigged, hostage to a two-party system that offers the populace false, binary choices.
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But in the zero-sum nature of two-party competition, one of these two things has to happen.
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That change begins with a vote for parties and candidates outside of the two party monopoly America has become.
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A two-party system can work when both parties are moderate, centrist parties that appeal to the entire country.
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But post-election, they wanted to build something for their peers who felt ostracized from the two-party system.
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After years in which it looked as if Britain's two-party system was fragmenting, things have gone into reverse.
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In coming years, our two-party system will break into a constantly changing mix of multiple issue-oriented parties.
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In politics, unscaling is already running headlong into election laws and rules set up for a two-party system.
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In a two-party system, there is no other option for those who don't want Democrats to gain power.
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First-past-the-post voting like America's tends inevitably to yield two-party systems, which usually require awkward coalitions.
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There is no denying that her candidacy appeals to people looking for something outside of the two-party binary.
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Mr. Patterson said the first presidential debate between the two party nominees could act as the new starting gun.
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"It shows the dissatisfaction the American electorate has with the two-party system right now," said Suffolk's David Paleologos.
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For example, the authors extoll the virtues of two-party systems that make no special accommodations for disadvantaged minorities.
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Ms. Miner says she wants to disrupt the two-party system, which she blames for corruption, inefficiency and divisiveness.
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Yet, in a two-party system, both parties have to be big-tent parties spanning a vast ideological spectrum.
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But a two-party system gives party leaders one advantage: They can hold the coalition together through negative partisanship.
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The hope, two party officials said, was that by doing so it could give Sanders a small boost now.
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Because let's face it: the two-party system, in all its absolutisms, is leaving many of us without representation.
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On Wednesday, Johnson spoke of the difficulty of breaking through an election structure that favors the two party system.
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If the American people keep failing to change our 18th-century voting regime, the two-party, winner-take-all system will remain The next major question for would-be two-party challengers is how they will raise money quickly with the over-inclusive and under-inclusive regulations of the Federal Election Commission.
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The libertarian-leaning political network funded by billionaire industrialist Charles Koch is getting ready for two-party rule in Congress.
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In a two-party system, with only two choices, you just have to be less unappealing than the other side.
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But vote trading has a larger significance: It serves as a way to rebel against America's "broken" two-party system.
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Perhaps the surest sign that American socialists are not revolutionaries is their willingness to work within the two-party system.
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The two-party "Pe a Corsica" (For Corsica) alliance won nearly two thirds of seats in the local assembly election.
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As a result smaller parties could not amass any electoral votes at all, which locked in the two-party model.
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At the 2010 election, Windsor won nearly 62% of the primary vote with a two-party preferred vote of 71.5%.
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In short, there is nothing structural about a two-party system that guarantees moderate parties that have to appeal broadly.
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And because of the two-party nature of the competition, Democrats and Republicans each have only one enemy: each other.
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The author further said he is against the two-party system and is voting for neither Trump nor Hillary Clinton.
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"What all nine have in common is they are what's known as two-party consent states," Lenkner told the Recorder.
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DeVos' appointment is a reflection of our country's arbitrary, dangerous divide — the two-party system that is ultimately destroying America.
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Just as a vibrant two-party system is good for our democracy, so is health security for our nation's welfare.
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But instead of attacking our young voters, why not ask what's motivating them to vote outside the two-party box?
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The point is that in a two-party system the defeated party is liable to take an electoral defeat seriously.
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The zero-sum, binary nature of our two-party elections rewards negative campaigning, where winning comes from disqualifying the opponent.
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He's already been an also-ran in two party primaries, and would face stiff competition from the likes of Sens.
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Vox is also a manifestation of a third concern: the increasing fragmentation of what was a stable two-party system.
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Though he'd recognize that we still have three branches of government, Washington would be disappointed in our two-party system.
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Our $20 trillion and growing national debt is another example of a mistake rooted in the binary two-party system.
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His win also has been widely trumpeted as historic for breaking the decades-long two-party dominance of Pakistani politics.
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There are other two-party consent states, where two participants in a conversations are required to consent to being recorded.
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Maine's experiment in ranked-choice voting, if adopted more widely, could give voters more options beyond the two-party system.
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And the antipathy for the two-party system as a whole is evident, too, in the last two winning presidents.
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Clinton holds her lead and wins the White House, Mr. Johnson envisions a decisive fracture of the two-party system.
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So barring a constitutional amendment that fundamentally restructured the executive branch, America's two-party system is unlikely to change soon.
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In February, Kasich speculated that the U.S. could be nearing the end of two-party dominance in its political system.
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The best predictor of the November results is to aggregate the Republican versus Democratic votes into a two-party contest.
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An increasing number of voters don't feel that the present two-party system does anything but maintain the two parties.
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State law differs around the policy of "two party consent," in which everyone being recorded has to agree to it.
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He doesn't mind being hated by the ruling two-party élites, but he wants to be appreciated for his accomplishments.
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It clandestinely recorded conversations, but never in jurisdictions that required "two-party" consent, which would have made the practice illegal.
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Every year, pundits pick up on these kinds of polls and pronounce the imminent death of the two-party system.
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Americans Elect, a Bloomberg-backed $35 million project to "smash the two-party system," failed spectacularly after the 2012 election.
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The deficiencies of a two-party system become glaring when the parties become as diametrically opposed as they are now.
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The base enthusiasm problem surrounding the tax bill is indicative of a broader enthusiasm gap between the two party bases.
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The result is the mutation of two-party competition, once a healthy part of democracy, into a kind of cancer.
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First, it's the hyper-partisan two-party system of the last decade that marks the true deviation from our history.
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America has had something more like a multiparty democracy within its two-party system for most of the country's history.
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John Kasich (R) said on Sunday that the U.S. might be witnessing the end of the two-party political system.
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A system dominated by two party-line powers gives way to a system with a lot of different power centers.
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His list of grievances is long: the two-party system, the Electoral College and the tone of the current election.
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We still, for the time being at least, have a two-party system, and the Democratic side still does care.
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The first-past-the-post system works well within a two-party system, but not where there are multiple parties.
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"Two-party systems are particularly problematic when you have the kind of crosscutting dimensions you have now," Dr. Hobolt said.
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But with a two-party system and vanishingly few competitive races, it's impossible to distinguish partisan voting from "change" voting.
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But the arbitrary consequences of such randomness are not quite so large as they are in our two-party system.
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Voting third party is not only a vote for the candidate you have chosen on conscious, it is a vote against the other candidates that the two party system has chosen for us, it is a vote against the two-party system, and the over-zealous partisanship that has plagued our politics over recent years.
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Four years ago, Merkel's conservatives and the Greens held exploratory talks on a two-party coalition but they came to nothing.
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Yet most fundamentals say Britain is shifting away from Duverger's two-party world to the fragmenting landscape described by Mr Colomer.
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Turnbull's center-right Liberal-National coalition trailed Labor 52-48 on a two-party preferred basis, according to the fortnightly poll.
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"Competition," unpredictability, and risk are apparently reserved for economic markets, not political ones in a two-party, winner-take-all world.
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And in Spain, the country's traditional two-party, left-right structure has been upended by the emergence of two outsider parties.
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The fallout from choosing John Quincy Adams over Andrew Jackson led to the development of our current two-party political system.
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The lawsuit challenging Mr McAuliffe's order is part of a wider mosaic of Republican measures designed to minimise two-party competition.
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Like the country at large, its prospects are—despite everything—in the hands of the two-party system. Economist.com/blogs/bagehot
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But it's interesting to think about different ways the process could occur, especially if you're frustrated by the two-party system.
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Alas, the two-party duopoly is tough to break, no matter how many Americans would prefer a wider variety of choices.
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But this single change will completely overturn the two party system that has prevailed in our presidential elections for 200 years.
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When the state by state electoral vote system is in effect, only the two party system can consistently produce this result.
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" Weld said talk of him ditching Johnson, the presidential nominee, is "wishful thinking on the part of the two-party duopoly.
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In one sense, the two-party system is more or less where we would expect it to be, given the conditions.
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Halfway through the game, two party members who'd left to track down reinforcements return, but they're ambushed by the game's villain.
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In a somewhat different way, allowing for our presidentialism and durable two-party system, it's the scene in the United States.
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By Santiago's estimate, the gangs could easily deliver 10 percent of the vote, a decisive portion in a two-party system.
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As long as Trump is on the ballot in fact or in spirit, Texas will be a competitive two party state.
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America's two-party system, unfortunate as it is, is an inevitable result of the winner-take-all nature of our elections.
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In a two-party system, the governing coalition is effectively determined before the election, through the selection of the party leaders.
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The reason we are in this mess is because we now have, for the first time, a genuine two-party system.
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Neither leader's office would comment directly on the letter given the sensitivity of the new relationship between the two party honchos.
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The emergence of the two-party system and the direct election of senators have dashed Hamilton's hopes for an impartial body.
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I'm referring to a fundamentally new paradigm in American politics: the death of the two-party system as we know it.
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The two-party coalition that took power in Italy last May is shaking financial markets with promises to increase public spending.
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But they got only 20203 percent of the two-party share in Pennsylvania, a tipping-point state in the Electoral College.
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While Trump did not signal his support for McDaniel at the rally, two party officials said he is pushing for her.
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We've also never really had a true two-party system with two very distinct parties representing two very distinct, non-overlapping coalitions.
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Also note that the election of 1904 marked a tremendous landslide for Teddy Roosevelt, indicating more fluidity in the two-party system.
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When contacted by TechCrunch, several of the victims of the cold-call scam confirmed they lived in states with two-party laws.
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No small feat for someone who only two years ago set up his own movement and blew apart France's two-party system.
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So your columnist takes his credibility into his hands when he hereby declares the strange impending death of the two-party order.
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The thinking behind this is set out in a paper published last year by Mark Pack and David Howarth, two party strategists.
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And In this era of bipolar two-party tribal politics, no matter what Trump does, there's always one thing worse for Republicans.
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The point is this: In our two-party system, even Republicans who oppose Trump face intense pressure to stay on the team.
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In no other two-party system does the party that receives the most votes routinely find itself out of power (see Briefing).
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Margaret Flowers is demanding #OpenDebates in a two party system in which media and Democrats collude to exclude candidates on the ballot.
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Under the "two-party consent" penal code, Swift can argue that she had a reasonable expectation that the call would be private.
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" Late last month, the billionaire Schultz told CBS' "60 Minutes" that he's considering running for president "outside of the two-party system.
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"The shortest path to stable government is a two-party coalition between National and New Zealand First," English told a news conference.
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To understand what we've lost under the two-party racket, compare the cringeworthy Clinton-Trump debates with Green nominee Jill Stein's rebuttals.
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In practice, then, a two-party system is likely to be more flexible than a multi-party system, contrary to first impressions.
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What we're seeing, I think, are increasing indications that the voters really want someone outside the two-party system that exists today.
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Clinton wins the nomination — and especially after the two party conventions — will provide a somewhat more instructive comparison between the two candidates.
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Recap: Four years ago, Spain's two-party system fragmented, and no single party has come close to winning a parliamentary majority since.
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That sort of disparity in energy between the two party bases is bad news for the side suffering from the passion deficit.
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Returning to the latest polling, with the Coalition trailing 45-55% on the two-party vote, that's the last thing Turnbull wants.
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The great danger is that, in America's two-party system, standing outside a party means relegating yourself and your movement to insignificance.
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Such an outcome would overturn the two-party political order that has prevailed since Spain's return to democracy in the late 1970s.
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It may simply be that the conventions play a role in unifying the two party bases — something that might well be inevitable.
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Specifically, he had a sharp sense of the conflict and voter frustration that is an inevitable byproduct of our two party system.
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It is my hope for the sake of the country and for the two-party system that he's able to do it.
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There are many people in this country who feel that voting doesn't actually matter, and that the two party system is rigged.
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Had Jill Stein been at the bar, she would have used it as a tortured metaphor about our broken two-party system.
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The grand finals of the Smash 23 tournament was an intense duel between two party-hat-wearing Pikachus — Alvin Leon Hara vs.
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By revealing the Taliban's real intentions in this way, such two-party talks might open the door to talks among Afghan parties.
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In our highly polarized two-party system, this poses the risk that future partisan conflict could become a battle over democracy itself.
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This is a key reason why our politics are so toxic, and this toxicity makes Americans frustrated with the two-party system.
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Yet in a two-party system, firms cannot order a main dish of tax cuts with criminal-justice reform on the side.
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In 19703, the Venezuelan people, tired of a two-party regime stained by corruption and social inequalities, voted Hugo Chávez into power.
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Once the parties polarize in a two-party system, the danger is that polarization becomes a self-reinforcing dynamic — a doom loop.
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And yet, it's a natural and sensible reaction to current politics, if you think that we're stuck with our two-party system.
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Absent the crossing of state lines into a two party consent jurisdiction, her actions were certainly reckless and reprehensible but probably legal.
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The bartending couple and stars of Bravo's Vanderpump Rules share two party-ready drinks from their new mixology book Fancy AF Cocktails.
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The conventional wisdom says that independents can't get elected — and even if they could, they'd be powerless in our two-party system.
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In Michigan, a two-party consent state, in order to violate that state's wiretapping law, a person must "willfully" intercept the communication.
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The Socialists slipped into an "intellectual laziness" abetted by France's two-party system, which pitted the left against the right, he said.
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The government instituted a series of reforms that were intended to save the two-party system, but that may have doomed it.
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The results, said one adviser, showed an opening for an independent candidate who focuses intently on dysfunction in the two-party system.
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The campaign was substantially delayed because of disagreements between 66-year-old Anand Sharma and other senior leaders, two party officials said.
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Implicitly underlying this, however, was the presumption that the UK's election system would deliver something approximating two-party politics with strong majorities.
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Nine of the 12 members who stood for reelection won with an average of 58 percent of the two-party vote share.
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" GOP state House candidates "won a minority—48.8%— of the two-party statewide vote, but still won 65 of 120 seats (22018%).
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And yet, if we want our two-party system to work, we need both parties committed to the rules of the game.
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Independents were the most likely to have said the two-party system is broken and a third party is needed, at 62%.
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That's the first time that's ever happened, to my knowledge, ever — certainly since the two party system evolved into its present configuration.
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A competitive, proto-fascist party (let's not mince words) in a two-party system would be an existential threat to American democracy.
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Diane Anderson said her father believed the two-party system was broken and was appalled by what happened with the Republican Party.
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Schultz, a lifelong Democrat, said he's "seriously thinking of running for president " as a centrist, positioned outside the two-party system as independent.
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"I am not surprised that the two-party political establishment wants to keep the American people from having a third choice," Trump said.
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While in Iowa Mr Cotton addressed two party fundraising dinners whose previous speakers include most major Republican presidential candidates of the past decade.
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"My sense pre-Trump was that there were demographic dynamics that were going to bring two-party competition at some point," he said.
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In this piece, I want to explore how much this "unlikely" conclusion flows from the zero-sum logic of our two-party system.
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And Donald Trump is still our president, leading us into deeper tribalism as he takes advantage of our two-party system's fatal flaw.
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American parties have always been institutionally weak by comparative standards, because the two-party system forces parties to be large big-tent coalitions.
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In a statement intended to reassure investors, the two party leaders said they had decided "not to call into question the single currency".
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Unlike Roosevelt's and Reagan's projects, it appears too reductive to survive in a two-party system in which success depends on coalition-building.
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They are desperate for a principled alternative to the predatory bipartisan establishment, and seek a positive path out of the two-party trap.
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Their aim then would be to wipe Forza Italia and the PD off the map and install a new, populist two-party system.
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But thoroughly disillusioned with the two-party system and highly mistrustful of anything and everything establishment, Stein is trying to save the world.
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Our winner-takes-all approach discourages third parties, and the two-party system rewards candidates who move to the center in national races.
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A large majority of young Americans are disenchanted with the two-party system and say the Republican and Democratic parties don't represent them.
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Yes, but: Independents claim nearly every major election year as "their year," but the strength of the two-party duopoly always wins out.
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I believe that we need to kill the two party system, but I'm not suggesting we get rid of the Democrats or Republicans.
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In a general election last December the rise of Podemos and of Ciudadanos, a new liberal party, upended a stable two-party system.
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Mr. Kenny had governed Ireland for the past five years atop a two-party government that controlled the biggest majority in Irish history.
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Two-party systems that were once stable are under new pressure, fracturing and creating openings for populists on the extremes, left and right.
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This is why George Washington, in his farewell address, expressed his distaste for parties in general and a two-party scenario in particular.
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The Freedom Party supports breaking the two-party dominance and Vienna's relationship with the European Union in order to expand its own power.
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The Atlanta metro area accounted for 37 percent of the two-party vote in 2000, about the same as it did in 2016.
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Kasich spearheaded a bipartisan push to stabilize the ObamaCare health-care markets last year, fueling speculation of a two-party ticket in 2020.
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Only after Bryan's loss to William McKinley, whose campaign was funded by businessmen, did Debs abandon his devotion to the two-party system.
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But zoom in to Silicon Valley and you'll see those hues blend into shades that aren't found on our two-party color wheel.
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Quist scored 44 percent, and with the Libertarian pulling in 6 percent, his share of the two-party vote is more like 46.
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Each was attempting to guess what percentage of the two-party vote Obama would get; ultimately, he got 210 percent to Romney's 22012.
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"Virginia is not a two-party state: It is two one-party states," says Tom Davis, a former Republican representative from Northern Virginia.
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The deeper problem is that a system without much effective two-party competition is a system that pushes entirely in the opposite direction.
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That spits out a prediction that Trump will get 47.4 percent of the two-party vote, for a loss of over 5 points.
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In Florida, Clinton won the early vote 52 to 48, but Trump won the Election Day two-party vote 56 to 83 percent.
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But beneath this increasingly partisan voting was an electorate that was always much more ideologically diverse than the increasingly bipolar two-party system.
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Young voters seem especially eager to junk the two-party system; NBC reported in November that 71 percent of millennials want another choice.
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The State Legislature — Republican-led in the Senate, but divided in the House with a Democratic-led, two-party coalition — thwarted those plans.
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I'm asking my fellow Americans if they agree we should consider another approach because it's clear the two-party system is failing us.
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The previous Granite State Poll, conducted in July before the two party conventions, had the two major party nominees tied at 37 percent.
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And for now, nobody (except maybe Schultz) actually thinks he can win the White House, given how strong the two-party system is.
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JOSEPH SACKMANHICKSVILLE, N.Y. To the Editor: America needs a constitutional amendment to do away with the two-party system once and for all.
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The forecast projected that Republicans would get 193 percent of the two-party vote and Democrats would receive 49.1 percent of the vote.
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And since few congressional districts and a minority of states have meaningful two-party competition, straight party voting is just incumbent-reelection voting.
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No. I think that we will remain by and large a two-party system where the two parties have no idea who's there.
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California is one of eleven "two-party consent" states, where both parties on the phone must give permission for the call to be recorded.
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For Trump, who has positioned himself as the ultimate outsider to politics and the two-party system, a shutdown wouldn't be the worst thing.
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Popper himself advocated a two-party system precisely because he believed it is the one most likely to engender self-examination, reflection and reforms.
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These are operatives, advocates, and funders who are trying to open a pathway for high-quality candidates to run outside the two-party system.
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Looking at this two-party system where people don't talk to each other, negotiations don't really happen, no one talks about social justice anymore.
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That said, Gorusch's idiosyncricies make him hard to pin down when placed into two-party political context, something that likely endeared him to Trump.
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Why it matters: We've seen several centrist campaigns like this before, and none have been overly successful in challenging the country's two-party system.
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" The NY Times quoted Democrat Paul Kirk, who was more blunt: "As a party chairman, it's my responsibility to strengthen the two-party system.
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Another news site he founded and later sold, Duowei, correctly predicted the leadership lineups for the previous two party conclaves, in 2002 and 2007.
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A strong two-party system, plus a willingness to defer to closed-door caucus meeting votes, had unified parties on the floor for decades.
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In the past, a stronger two-party system, bolstered by muscular labor unions and business confederations, had quashed figures like Mr. Trump with ease.
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The convoluted power-sharing plan saw the two party leaders — the Democratic Union's Tomislav Karamarko and MOST's Bozo Petrov — sharing deputy prime minister roles.
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Stone refers to the "two-party duopoly" that brought about "endless wars" in the Middle East and "the erosion of civil liberties" at home.
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In our strong two-party system, third-party candidates don't really have a chance, especially now that our politics are more polarized than ever.
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Consider this chart Lee makes, which combines share of the national two-party presidential vote, share of House seats, and share of Senate seats.
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In the 1990s, American politics entered a somewhat unusual period of remarkably close two-party competition for control of the House and the Senate.
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But that bid would not work if it were trying to present a moderate or centrist or pragmatic alternative to the two party ideologies.
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Every time I have attempted to rewatch one or two "Party Down" episodes, I've wound up watching 10 and sometimes all 20 episodes instead.
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The win underscores mounting discontent with a two-party system in the province, and offers the Green Party a new influence over provincial politics.
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In so many ways, the people of this great country are not getting the opportunities they deserve because our two-party system is broken.
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The situation becomes more dicey for Manigault Newman if she taped conversations at Mar-a-Lago, since Florida is a "two party" consent state.
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Yes we could send a message that we are ready to break apart this two-party system, and I am, but at what cost?
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"But for now, the power has been returned to the Malaysian people, as we have ushered in a two-party system," Ms. Gabriel said.
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New Hampshire frequently picks Presidents, not just party nominees, in part because its voters are not as strictly tethered to the two-party system.
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It lodges a protest vote against the two-party system, while also helping to ensure that the tangerine madman doesn't get the nuclear codes.
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"But as we depend on a two-party system with two functional parties, it will also be deeply damaging to our country," he added.
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But the largely winner-take-all nature of the Electoral College plays a more decisive role than the media in the two-party system.
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" Weld said earlier this month that talk of him leaving the Libertarian ticket is "wishful thinking on the part of the two-party duopoly.
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"There was a two-party system at Columbia in the '80s: the liberals and the socialists," said Stephen Later, who worked on the paper.
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In a two-party system, Trump supporters are Germany's problem as long as a U.S.-Germany partnership remains in everyone's interest (and it is).
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When that day mercifully arrives, the two-party duopoly that has strangled American politics for almost two centuries will finally come to an end.
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Until then, the two party leaders and their allies appear content to engage in a messaging battle rather than relent on their entrenched positions.
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Pundits were then surmising that Lyndon B. Johnson's landslide signaled the demise of the Republican Party and the end of the two-party system.
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California is a "two-party consent" state, where both sides of a conversation have to know they are being recorded for it to be legal.
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Those detained for questioning include two party members, one from the opposition BNP party and a local leader of the Jamaat e Islami Islamist party.
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Masterful Democratic gerrymanders in Maryland ensured that Republicans took only one of eight House seats in 2016, despite winning 37% of the two-party vote.
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Florida, where the video was taken, has a two-party consent law that requires both parties involved in a conversation to agree to be recorded.
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He won the seat in 2013 with a 29% swing in the primary vote to 54.2% for the Nationals, finishing with a two-party preferred.
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The way we make the best progress in a correctly functioning two-party system is when we have the push and pull of different ideas.
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But Sanders, operating outside the realm of conventional two-party presidential politics, wasn't deterred, raising $40 million in some months through mostly small, online donations.
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Even Matteo Salvini, leader of the nationalist Northern League, which is yoked to the M5S in Italy's two-party coalition, balked at the comedian's appointment.
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He told Fox News' "Your World with Neil Cavuto" Wednesday he was thinking of running outside of the two-party system because it was broken.
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Two party sources told Reuters on Tuesday that the parliamentary party had backed SPD leader Andrea Nahles in her call for an extension until October.
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The emergence of two dominant alliances, one on the right and one on the left, could augur the formation of a stable two-party system.
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And as long time readers will know, we have our doubts about whether state government working against the two party system is a good idea.
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France's Socialist Party has all but disappeared, after more than 220006 years of sharing France's political mainstream in a not-quite two-party political system.
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The Mercers, like Bannon, believe the two-party system is corrupt and are willing to go to extraordinary lengths to take down the D.C. establishment.
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In contrast, America's two-party system sucked in Mr Sanders, who joined the Democrats last year, and Mr Trump, who rejoined the Republicans in 2009.
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One factor that may entice Mr Bloomberg into the race is a rising number of Americans who are seemingly disaffected with the two-party system.
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Vox's fundamentals-based elections forecast suggests that he should be winning 50.9 percent of the two-party vote, and he's currently 3 points behind that.
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"I think it's very important for us have a healthy two-party competition, but Donald Trump just does not live up to that," he said.
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In our two-party system, the surest way to accomplish these things is to support the other party, in every race from president to dogcatcher.
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Gender roles as disfiguring as foot-binding, the moribund and vampiric two-party system, the savage theology of capitalism—rip it all to the ground.
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"I think we're going to get a third and fourth break of the two-party system coming up," the former Green Party presidential nominee added.
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And on issues of gender and sexuality, the two party positions are starkly at odds, as clashes over transgender bathrooms and gay rights have shown.
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There is no question there have been systematic attacks against Harris, Warren, Sanders and O'Rourke that involved social media sources outside our two-party system.
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It is clear that our politics will undergo a fundamental change following this election, the two party system should not be exempt from that change.
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BERT O. RICHMOND Athens, Ga. To the Editor: Thomas L. Friedman does not provide sufficient evidence for why we should have a two-party system.
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Republicans, who control the 100-seat Senate by only a 52-48 margin, can afford to lose support from no more than two party lawmakers.
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This creates confusion in the political arena, because Americans are used to a rigid two-party system in which left and right are easily distinguishable.
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The group is fiercely pro-EU—some members have long wanted a second referendum—and argues that the U.K.'s two-party system is broken.
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Nine months later, many voters complain that the new parties have adopted the same cynical and corrosive politics practiced under the entrenched two-party system.
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The political system of US is, in-practice, a two-party system where Republicans and Democrats are the only two competitors in the political ring.
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It's one of the greatest tests of our two party system: unite a movement of people faster than the repressive churn of an authoritarian administration.
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What's clear is that two now-standard responses — strengthening our two parties and making two-party elections more competitive —are not going to reduce polarization.
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But look at the majority of states and congressional races, and a different picture emerges: In most places, meaningful two-party electoral competition is nonexistent.
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By contrast, Congress was probably at its most fluid and productive during the periods of highest two-party competition, from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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Gender roles as disfiguring as foot-binding, the moribund and vampiric two-party system, the savage theology of capitalism — rip it all to the ground.
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It's one of the greatest tests of our two-party system: unite a movement of people faster than the repressive churn of an authoritarian administration.
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In the post-Cold War era, various reforms were introduced in hopes of creating a British-style two-party system and ensuring alternation of power.
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Prime Minister Andrej Babis's two-party minority government aims to keep the budget deficit at 40 billion crowns in 2020, unchanged from this year's target.
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That characterization shines a more focused light on what this "trial" signifies: both parties' complicity in the crisis of legitimacy of our "two-party" system.
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To put all this another way, the main purpose of this election is to destroy two-party politics as Britain has known it since 1945.
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And to turn our two-party system into a single party system -- a party in which incumbency would be the common ideological thread between politicians.
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The government, a fractious two-party coalition, downgraded its 2019 growth outlook this month to just 0.2 percent, from a December forecast of 1 percent.
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They are insisting on fundamental democratic changes in a place where two-party politics have traditionally played out within a relatively limited circle of power.
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They are insisting on fundamental democratic changes in a place where two-party politics have traditionally played out within a relatively limited circle of power.
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With Spain's two-party system becoming more of a mélange of parties and the Catalan question superheating, new elections could be politically unsettling and unpredictable.
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That is, of those who received two party ballots, more than 95 percent managed to send back just one ballot and have their vote counted.
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South of the Scottish border, two-party politics is back, after the collapse of the UK Independence Party and a disappointing campaign by the Liberal Democrats.
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Indeed, by some measures, that time period was the least polarized in American history since the advent of the two-party system in the 19th century.
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The coup fractured the country's two-party system, in which the National Party took turns in power with the Liberals, whose ideology and programme differed little.
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Kasich would need the resources to win ballot access in all 50 states and to advertise a message that breaks through the traditional two-party system.
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Given the fact that Democrats and Republicans live in very different places, it's hard to draw two-party competitive districts in large swaths of the country.
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The actress told MSNBC's Chris Hayes Monday she doesn't think she could vote for Clinton in a hypothetical match-up between the two party front-runners.
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And that's what exit polling that asked people how they would have voted in a two-party race — with the third option of not voting — finds.
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Italy — the third largest euro zone economy — has been governed by a two-party coalition since elections in March 2018 yielded no outright winner in Rome.
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In the past three House elections, Republicans' share of House seats has been 4-5 percentage points greater than their share of the two-party vote.
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This created an incentive for the formation of nationwide parties whose candidates could win the necessary majority, thus encouraging the development of a two-party system.
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In a highly partisan two-party system, in which Trump and his acolytes in conservative media set the talking points for the party, dissent is hard.
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Even where two-party challengers get on the ballot, in some states the major parties allow their partisan campaign chairs to serve as the election officials.
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Amato, the author of Grand Illusion, the Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny (New Press 2009), is not running any campaign this year.
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As Vox's Kelsey Piper writes, experts consider America's "first-past-the-post" system among the worst voting systems: First-past-the-post favors two-party systems.
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In order to be favoured to win the House our model thinks the Democrats must win the two-party national popular vote by about 5.5 points.
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In short, Trump's victory breathed life into both political parties' infrastructures — and did little to undercut the system that keeps the US a two-party state.
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There has been clear confrontation between the two-party coalition, formed of the leftist, anti-establishment Five Star Movement and the anti-immigration, populist Lega party.
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"This is a two-party system that I don't want to be a part of," the Pretty Little Liars star, 30, responded to Cosmopolitan's hypothetical question.
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LEXINGTON once asked America's most successful centrist to explain the strength of the two-party system, in a country that views those same parties with scorn.
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So any random earthquake is way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way less likely than the underdog winning in a two-party election.
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That would confirm the end of the two-party system that dated from Spain's return to democracy in the late 1970s and started unravelling in 2015.
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The two-party system is deeply entrenched There's a reason that the last third-party candidacy to have any real impact was Ross Perot in 153.
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Four years ago, Spain's two-party system turned into a much more fragmented landscape, in part because of the emergence of Mr. Iglesias and his party.
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For all the analysis below, I use two-party vote share of presidential elections (meaning excluding third-party voting) using American National Election Studies (ANES) data.
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He could face arrest amid a crackdown at home on members of his banned party and Malaysia's detention of two party activists also trying to return.
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" The officer can also be heard saying that Illinois is a two-party consent state for recordings and that he "didn't consent to being on camera.
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With much of the two-party system and the American people in general agreement about the parameters of politics, that was not a terribly difficult task.
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Podemos, a radical left-wing party, suffered its first setback since it was formed two years ago with a goal of uprooting Spain's two-party system.
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The report also suggests that students are becoming dissatisfied with the two-party political system, with 217 in 236 students not identifying with either major party.
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The election that followed confirmed the fragmentation of Spanish politics, with the emergence of two parties — Podemos and Ciudadanos — determined to challenge Spain's two-party system.
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Of 10 forecasts made between late June and early September, all but two came within roughly 2 points of the final two-party national popular vote.
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Italy — the third largest euro zone economy — had been governed by the two-party coalition since elections in March 2018 yielded no outright winner in Rome.
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Then, the political scientist Lee Drutman joins the columnists to make the case for how America can and should move past its two-party political system.
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The Donald is always saying how rigged the two-party system is and that politics as usual isn't working — surely he should be all about this.
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So, there is an opportunity to transform American politics in the way that John Boehner alluded to in his "death of the two-party system" quip.
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" Under the gerrymandered maps, Republican state Senate candidates "won a minority— 49.5%—of the two-party statewide vote, but still won 29 of 50 seats (43%).
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The two party leaders — both Big Apple power-brokers known as sharp-elbowed dealmakers — have sparred throughout the year, trading shots over a host of issues.
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Macron's popularity dropped quickly after he swept to an electoral victory in May on a centrist platform, shattering a long-standing two-party system in France.
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It's also a clarifying example of the absurdities of the American winner-take-all two-party electoral system, rooted in the single-member, plurality-winner district.
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The problem is we have two-party majoritarian politics without institutions to handle that, and that's, to me, the frightening thing about institutions in this particular moment.
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The High Court of Cassation and Justice found Dragnea guilty Thursday of intervening to keep two party members on the payroll of a public family welfare agency.
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He was also helped by the horse race frame most of the press adopted (which again, works differently in the primaries than in a two-party contest).
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Virtually the entire GOP establishment including the last two Republican presidents and the last two party nominees have all said they would skip this year's party convention.
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America's various disproportional representations are the result of winner-takes-all voting and a two-party system where party allegiance and geography have become surprisingly highly correlated.
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One outcome does seem certain, however: confirmation of the end of the two-party system that began with Spain's return to democracy and started unravelling in 2015.
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Rome's two-party coalition came to an abrupt end Tuesday after Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte resigned from his post following pressure from the right-wing Lega party.
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With all of the attention given to presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, it's almost easy to forget that it's far from a two-party race.
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This is tricky enough in a two-party race, in which votes lost by the Tories might be assumed to accrue mainly to Labour, and vice versa.
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Labour, not the Liberal Democrats, is attracting younger voters in what has become a two-party race between them and the Conservatives, outside Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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In two-party systems, like the United States and (broadly) Britain, the right is in power, but only by jettisoning the values that used to define it.
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It's useful to be reminded that America's still-dominant, two-party hierarchy has much more to do with the mannerisms of power than the substance of ideas.
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There has been clear confrontation between the two-party coalition — formed of the leftist, anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M003S) and the anti-immigration, populist Lega party.
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They think it's horrible that in a two-party system, one party has become consistently aligned against some pretty basic ideas of equality and justice for women.
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It's also important to understand that Maine is unusual among states in that about 95 percent of its state legislative seats actually do have two-party competition.
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But Spain's political deadlock, in which a stable two-party system gave way in an election last December to a fragmented parliament, comes with a rising cost.
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It will make turnout for the two big parties much higher than it might otherwise be, preserving the two-party system in a lacquer of mutual detestation.
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Last week, candidates, the two party committees and their biggest-spending outside allies dropped a whopping $63 million on television airtime in 51 districts across the country.
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Michael Cucek of Temple University says that the upper house is the last place where Japan can plausibly claim still to have a real two-party system.
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Parties turn isolated groups into members of an electoral coalition, and in a two-party system, one of those coalitions will inevitably end up with a majority.
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Our two-party system is heavily skewed to favor establishment candidates, although Sanders's success and Donald Trump's offer strong evidence that the party apparatuses are not inviolable.
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They worried that the Goldwaterites were trying to smash the pragmatic, compromising model of American two-party rule and create ideologically driven bodies on the European model.
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During their meeting, Rivlin said the two party leaders made "significant steps" in negotiations, though neither could agree on who would serve first in a rotating leadership.
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Bukele took office on June 1, ending three decades of a two-party system and vowing to root out entrenched corruption that has implicated even former presidents.
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BJP party chief Amit Shah has invited alliance partners for a dinner meeting on Tuesday to discuss the formation of the new government, two party sources said.
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A conservative two-party system without real checks and balances is emerging in Japan, and the gap keeps widening between the country's politics and the people's preferences.
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I think the other thing that's interesting, observing this, is that we have a two ... an electoral system that was designed for a two-party world. Right.
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Some talk of the tyranny of the two-party system, but much of what is happening is the interplay of our party system and our presidential system.
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One outcome does seem certain, however: confirmation of the end of the two-party system that began with Spain's return to democracy and started unraveling in 22018.
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Hillary Clinton would be the president if the national tallies counted, and the shift from Mr. Obama's 20163 percent of the two-party popular vote to Mrs.
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In the national polls required to secure this 15 percent, some only give Clinton and Trump as options, making them disproportionately favored toward the two-party system.
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Each state has different laws, with some being "two-party" states -- which means you must have the permission of both the person being recorded and the recorder.
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The dream of disrupting the two-party system — a function of our winner-take-all elections, not any love for the parties themselves — did not go away.
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The Democratic Party of Virginia and two party activists are suing the Virginia State Board of Elections and want Judge Henry Hudson to strike down the law.
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We take the result of Jacob and Florian's ensemble model and subtract Trump's share of the two-party vote according to the latest HuffPost Pollster national polls.
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His lead, however, has been eroded by two party rivals to his right - ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy and Fillon, who served as Sarkozy's prime minister from 2007-2012.
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For the two-party story, 62% got it right, saying the child would still be three—but 38% said the child's age would be either four or five.
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So far, it has been remarkable chiefly for the spat within Merkel&aposs own two-party conservative bloc that threatened to bring down the administration earlier this month.
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In the eyes of its critics, the two-party system turned into a "partidocracy", capturing institutions from universities to public broadcasters and regulatory bodies that should be independent.
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The case for the British two-party system is that it produces "crunchy" results even at the price of leaving a large section of the population feeling disenfranchised.
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At the core of Schultz's diagnosis is the idea that America's two-party duopoly is distorting politics and leaving Americans unrepresented, good ideas unnoticed, and policy problems entrenched.
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In the most recent presidential election, held in November 2016, each district re-elected its Republican representative with an average of 62% of the two-party vote share.
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Though many major newspapers have editorialized about the FEC's legendary dysfunction, it remains underfunded and unable to prevent much of the two-party hazing of minor party candidacies.
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JOHANNESBURG, July 5 (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress has proposed at its policy conference on Wednesday that the central bank be nationalised, two party sources said.
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The aftermath of austerity eroded but did not break the two-party system, in which the Socialists and Mr Rajoy's conservative People's Party (PP) have alternated in government.
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From time to time, third-party politics can disrupt the balance of the two-party system and offer primary-party candidates who have lost another chance at victory.
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The hard truth for the Republican Party (and thus, in a two-party system, for America) is that the lack of good options reflects a deep internal schism.
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The Democrat won a few percentage points more of the two-party vote than the Republican, just as had happened four years before, and four years before that.
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You know, in a certain way I hate to see it, because I like a two-party system and we're soon going to have a one-party system.
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By "post-democracy," Mouffe means the imposition of a firm consensus by all traditional parties, despite the façade of a two-party system, in favor of neoliberal globalization.
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Four years ago, Spain's two-party system turned into a much more fragmented landscape, and since then no single party has come close to winning a parliamentary majority.
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The statement redacted the middle characters of the defendants' names, but the other two party members were identified by media as Lin Ming-cheng and Hou Han-ting.
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Socialism has been carried into the twenty-first century by way of Sanders, a Debs disciple, and by way of the utter failure of the two-party system.
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An official survey released on Thursday showed voters are still not inclined to revert to the two-party system that dominated Spanish politics for the past 40 years.
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Merkley's vote share rose by 3.4 to 4.5 percentage points among people getting the messages, for a swing in the two-party vote share of up 9 points.
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While all the major mobile device providers – Apple, Google, and Amazon included – offer parental controls on their devices – Family Link is different because it's a two-party system.
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According to Wasserman's calculations, in an election where Democrats got 22016 percent of the two-party vote nationwide, you'd expect them to get just 246 percent in Montana.
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She didn't understand my critique of the Democratic Party during the 2016 presidential primaries, or why I started to question our two-party system as Election Day neared.
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That may complicate some policymaking, as a two-party "grand coalition" of the conservative European People's Party (EPP) and the Socialists (S&D) no longer has a majority.
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The reality is that, as long as the U.S. political system is a two-party system, the Democratic Party offers the best chance at national, progressive climate action.
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"This state deserves a two-party system," said Travis Allen, a state assemblyman who ran in the primary for governor and is a candidate to become party chairman.
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"Traditionally in the two-party system, politicians and their team try to make their base bigger," said Haley Barbour, the former Mississippi governor and Republican National Committee chairman.
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You don't need to look much further than the latest far-left-leaning Democratic debate to see how uniform policy preferences have become in our two-party system.
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But they could afford to lose only two party members, and three Republicans voted no: Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and John McCain of Arizona.
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Both the Republican and the Democratic nominees are fatally flawed, and their historically low favorability ratings demonstrate the failure of the primary process and the two-party system.
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The government, which has only a one-seat majority, now trails the main opposition Labor Party by a margin of 53-47 percent on a two-party basis.
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The coffee exporting country famed for its environmental stewardship has long offered a moderate two-party system and more stability than other countries in politically volatile Central America.
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SI: You're an outspoken critic of our two-party system, and you have been since you ran for governor of Minnesota in 1998 as a Reform Party candidate.
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It's also worth noting that the institutional design feature that creates two-party politics, the single-member plurality-winner district, is also the design feature that makes gerrymandering possible.
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"Schultz will address some of the problems that have been intractable in the broken two party system including the tax code, healthcare, immigration, education, and economic opportunity," they wrote.
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Recent developments indicate the country's transition toward two-party politics has seemingly collapsed, leaving young Cambodians with no outlet for grievances and creating a potentially explosive situation, Kurlantzick said.
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The two-party coalition government led by Borisov's GERB, which took office in 2014, lacks an outright majority and has relied on the support of other parties including ABV.
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You may still believe in your heart of hearts that Hillary Clinton is no better than Donald Trump, and that a blow must be struck against two-party duopoly.
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The Democratic National Committee informed 20 candidates Wednesday evening that each had qualified to participate in one of two, party-sanctioned debates airing July 30 and 31 on CNN.
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The number of competitive districts (as determined by those in which the presidential candidates' two-party votes were within 10 points of each other) dropped from 86 to 74.
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As a result, American voters choose their leaders within a de facto two-party system in which other parties often have trouble even getting their candidates' names onto ballots.
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Across the country, all of the smaller parties have been squeezed because of a return to two-party politics, where the overall battle is between the Conservatives and Labour.
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It loosely takes place during the early 18th century reign of England's Queen Anne, a time of war, scientific innovation, and the development of a two-party parliamentary system.
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Though the DSA's involvement in two-party politics took off in 2018, Auken and others emphasize that it's not the first time the DSA has gotten involved in elections.
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Right now, the far right and far left are badgering their political parties, tugging at the anchors of our two-party system and, sadly, the heart of our country.
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The GOP holds 12 of the state's 16 congressional seats, even though the party won only 85033 percent of the two-party vote for Congress in the 2016 elections.
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But, as an American who believes in the importance of a functioning two-party system, I am disappointed that things have gotten so bad for the Grand Old Party.
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By contrast, the budding two-party system converges on Japan's core tenets, including as liberal democracy and the U.S.-Japan alliance, while diverging over details, such as financial policy.
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Polling going back further is spottier, but nothing before the 1990s, and even back to the 18603s, comes anywhere close to two-thirds dissatisfaction with the two-party system.
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Perhaps the two-party system can continue a while longer, with steady but equally distributed dissatisfaction and frustration — not enough to topple it in one direction or the other.
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His Election Reform collection of tees and hoodies is "ostensibly non-partisan," and explicitly addresses the failings of the current voting system and the prevailing two-party set-up.
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Two party spokeswomen said in a statement that the party disapproved of her joining the government and that this meant that she was de-facto no longer party chief.
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Under their proposal, the two party leaders could jointly authorize remote voting for a period of 30 days, and then the full Senate could vote to extend this period.
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If the major parties aren't careful, and don't listen more to the demands of the American people, 2016 might be remembered as the year the two-party system disappeared.
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One side of America's two-party system will build a giant parallel information apparatus operating on tribal lines, pushing one nonsense conspiracy theory after another into the political mainstream?
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There are surely several reasons why similar impulses are expressing themselves differently in Italy, but one has to be that the US system is aggressively a two-party system.
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He blames the two-party system for a lack of job growth over three decades, as well as higher taxes and a dearth of investment in transportation and education.
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They are chronicled in all their shameful intensity by my campaign manager, Theresa Amato, in her book Grand Illusion: the Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny.
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The two party leaders are due on Monday to meet President Sergio Mattarella, who must approve the programme and has a final say on their nomination for prime minister.
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Murkowski, one of two party members who voted on Tuesday against opening debate on a bill to end Obamacare, told MSNBC she was not worried about the political fallout.
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She said she believes the two-party system is destroying America and voted for Trump "to give him a chance," though she isn't sure how she'll vote in 2020.
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This time around, as Spain has shifted from a two-party system to a much more fragmented political landscape, a national election could be even more unsettling and unpredictable.
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Merkley's vote share rose by 3.4 to 4.5 percentage points among people getting the messages, for a swing in the two-party vote share of up to 9 points.
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In laying the groundwork for Jackson's ascendance, he traveled the country trying to revive the two-party system, which had ended with the demise of the Federalists in 1816.
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Note in the far lower-left corner lie the elections of 203 and 1976, in which almost every state was two-party competitive, and the national margin was razor-close.
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Because we have a two-party system, to be the majority party in America requires a somewhat big-tent approach, and the ability to hold together a somewhat unwieldy coalition.
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Some states require two-party consent, where both parties agree to the recording, and some laws just require one person to consent (meaning you can secretly record the other person).
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I take your point that America's two-party system creates high hurdles for outlier parties or movements, but I think this election made clear that institutional barriers won't save us.
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And some of the mechanisms they put in place to guard against other concentrations of power went on to exacerbate the problems that such a two-party system can cause.
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And what if all this is happening when the two-party system in America seems to be getting most of its energy from the far left and the far right?
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Both Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan, two of the biggest box-office draws, are hurling themselves into Tamil politics in ways that may yet throw open the old two-party rivalry.
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In 2016 Democrats who beat Republican opponents won an average of 67.4% of the two-party vote in their districts, whereas Republicans who defeated Democrats received an average of 19603%.
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And the problem right now is that the two-party system is trapped in a doom loop that it can't get out of on its own without significant collateral damage.
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Four people were shot, one fatally, when an altercation between occupants of two party buses ended in gunfire near the iconic Santa Monica Pier in California early Saturday, police said.
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If the Democrats secured a healthy 53.3% of the national two-party vote that year, our model would still have assigned them only a 6.2% chance to win the district.
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Casting a ballot for the lesser evil in a corrupt and failing two-party system — which only promises more of the same — is the very definition of a wasted vote.
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It marked the most dramatic turn in Spanish politics since a national election last December ended four decades of two-party rule and forced parties to negotiate over a government.
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The Socialists also suffered an electoral drubbing in the presidential race in May, as centrist newcomer Emmanuel Macron took power, blowing apart France's traditional two-party system in the process.
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Notching its 50th poll loss in a row, the Liberal-National coalition trailed the center-left Labor Party by 54 percent to 46 percent on a two-party preferred basis.
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Rajoy, in a television interview on Monday, reiterated that the Socialists should either stand aside and allow the PP to govern or join forces in a two-party "grand coalition".
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The president's briefing invitation was sent to the top two party leaders in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, according to a congressional source familiar with the plan.
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"Traditionally in the two-party system, politicians and their team try to make their base bigger," former Mississippi Governor and Republican National Chairman Haley Barbour told The New York Times.
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Given the option, I will always, always choose a health increase as my first character upgrade, and my Pokémon Bag is more lopsided than a two-party election in Georgia.
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The feud between Buchanan and Douglas mirrored the dissolution of the Democratic Party and, by extension, the two-party system that had held together the country before the Civil War.
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They take a questionable analysis of the nature of American public opinion, one specifically designed to speak to the reality of polarization, and apply it directly to two-party competition.
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What is the magic of the two-party system at this point when the two political parties have brought us to this polarizing impasse of complete incapacity to pass legislation?
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Spain's two-party system was broken up in 2015, when Ciudadanos, a center-right party that began as a movement against Catalan independence, and the far-left Podemos entered Parliament.
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Frustrated by what they see as the outdated and ineffective deadlock of the two-party political orthodoxy, a shiny new breakaway faction has emerged in Parliament called The Independent Group.
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Gradually, though, as democratic norms and the two-party system became entrenched, the states all came to adopt a system where there would be a statewide vote on the presidency.
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Democrats also had their previous highest turnout in 2002 (58% of the two-party vote, compared with 64% in 2018), and Republicans did well in that year's midterm election nationally.
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They feared that if just one party became the majority, it would use its power to abuse the remaining minority party, and that close two-party competition would be destabilizing.
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Their lawsuit said that in the 2012 elections for the Assembly, Wisconsin Republicans won 48.6 percent of the two-party vote but took 61 percent of the Assembly's 99 seats.
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The current version of the bill is being touted by Paul and a newcomer to the difficult business of two-party consensus building, the junior senator from California, Kamala Harris.
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Podemos quickly emerged as one of the main political forces that effectively overturned Spain's decades-old two-party system, but its support has ebbed after internal disputes divided its leadership.
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In Pennsylvania, a two-party consent state, the Philadelphia district attorney's office considers audio recordings from Ring and other outdoor home surveillance devices admissible evidence, spokeswoman Jane Roh told Motherboard.
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Founded in 2014 during a period of extreme discontent and record unemployment generated by the world financial crisis, Podemos made a meteoric rise that also uprooted Spain's two-party system.
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The greater the increase the foreign-born share of the population between 1990 and 2014, the more Republicans improved their two-party vote share for president between 1992 and 2012.
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While winner-takes-all elections like ours tend to produce two-party systems, as Maurice Duverger taught us long ago, countries that use PR typically feature more than two parties.
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Spain's once-stable two-party political system has been shaken, especially by the rise of Podemos, a far-left group which claimed 212% of the vote in an election last year.
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"Libertarians and other marginalized groups have a weird man's burden in which they are frequently held to even higher standards than the two-party dolts who actually hold power," Welch wrote.
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PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech president Milos Zeman said on Sunday he may appoint a new two-party cabinet on Tuesday or Wednesday following eight months of political instability after last October's election.
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Purple has a lot of significance here, as it seems to point to a message of blurring party lines — our two-party system is represented by red and blue, after all.
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Johnson said he hoped his candidacy would wipe out the two-party system and, in a recent MSNBC appearance, literally held his nose shut at the mention of Clinton and Trump.
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Maybe one or two new states will come into play in 19123 (most likely Arizona and Georgia), but other states on this list are now moving out of two-party competitiveness.
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In America's two-party political system, winning the presidency is nearly impossible without the support of a major party, even for a member of the ultra-rich elite like Mr. Trump.
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Democracy works, this country works when you have two parties that are serious and trying to solve problems, at the end of the day, you want a healthy two party system.
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The first two presidents, George Washington and John Adams, both warned that a two-party system, in particular, would be anathema to the model of government they were trying to build.
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He argues that the causality runs in the opposite direction: party systems dictate electoral systems and thus, when two-party systems start to fragment, the pressure for proportional representation (PR) grows.
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One outcome does seem certain, however: confirmation of the end of the two-party system that began with Spain's return to democracy in the late 1970s and started unravelling in 2015.
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Doesn't Google recording a person's voice and sending it to a data center for analysis violate two-party consent law, which requires everyone in a conversation to agree to being recorded?
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Republican negotiators must be careful not to agree to changes that could diminish support in the Senate, where they can afford to lose support from no more than two party members.
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But in the three elections in 2012-16 their candidates got just 213% of the two-party vote for the Senate, and they won the presidential vote in 2016 with 49%.
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Political independence means little when voters only have two major parties between which to choose that have any hope of winning in a winner-take-all, two-party-dominated general election.
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The problems in American democracy extend beyond one president and are rooted instead in the nature of the major parties in a two-party system — a particularly difficult problem to reform.
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And while it's easy to blame the Russians, the reality is that our hyperpartisan, winner-take-all, closely contested two-party system has made us vulnerable to a threat like this.
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JOHN HARWOOD: Is it part of your objective to do something that sets off a chain of events that busts up the two-party system as it, we now know it?
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Senator, the fact that somebody with your outlook on the world is now effectively un-represented in our two-party system should tell you that something is wrong with our system.
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In fact, millennials who plan to vote Green know that if we are ever to break free from the two-party trap, the time to start building an alternative is now.
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As things stand, an inclination to self-criticism after an electoral defeat is far more pronounced in countries with a two-party system than in those where there are several parties.
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Democrats are naturally worried, but for outsider candidates looking to find their way into the two-party system—or to simply burn it all down—maybe that's reason to be hopeful.
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Until now, Spain had remained among the few European countries without a powerful far-right element, even after its two-party system turned into a much more fragmented landscape in 2015.
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However, a glimmer of hope exist as the two party leaders met in Washington recently to begin the delicate process of ironing out differences and potentially unifying a deeply fractured party.
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First-past-the-post systems, in which multiple candidates vie for one seat, tend to produce two-party democracies, while parliamentary systems allow for a more diverse slate of political parties.
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The two party establishments are mired in their orthodoxies, but Trump and his appointees are embodiments of the nationalism espoused by Pat Buchanan, the most influential public intellectual in America today.
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The United States doesn't have a history of presidential candidates being successful outside the two-party system, largely because of the resources and support that the major parties provide to candidates.
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But the poll, conducted by YouGov/Galaxy for News Corp media and published on Saturday, showed the coalition still trailed Labor 48-52 on a more important two-party preferred basis.
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This election is even more of a two-party race, except in Scotland, where the Scottish National Party, which wants independence for Scotland, will win most, if not all, the seats.
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So even Mr. O'Rourke's defeat had tinges of victory for Democrats, helping to rekindle a notion that many had believed was years away from reviving in Texas: the two-party state.
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Such a two-party deal is highly unlikely, given the opposition to such an arrangement in Congress, by Mexico and among the North American industries that depend on the current framework.
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The map shows that more than one in five voters lived in a precinct where 80 percent of the two-party vote went either to Donald Trump or to Hillary Clinton.
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Dating back to 1998, there has never been a midterm year in which there was a higher percentage of two-party votes cast in the Illinois Democratic primary compared with 2018.
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At a time when the two-party duopoly is drifting from one manufactured crisis to the next instead of solving problems, our system needs strong independents at every level of government.
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In 2018, Republican candidates for North Carolina's House of Representatives won less than 50 percent of the two-party statewide vote, but walked away with 65 seats to the Democrats' 55.
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In the American political system, they were suppressed by a two-party system collapsing into a four-party system in a way that made it unable to surface disagreement over race.
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In this country, however, the two-party system ensures a wide range of views within a political label, and particularly within the Democratic one -- exemplified by Biden and AOC's contrasting views.
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We appreciate the resounding two-party support for two states that Congress has voiced and believe Congress should send an equally forceful bipartisan message opposing unilateral annexation — whether full or partial.
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In December, one of the three parties quit the coalition after a row with government over a bill regarding prosecutions, but the remaining two-party alliance still enjoys a parliamentary majority.
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One outcome does seem certain, however: confirmation of the end of the two-party system that began with Spain's return to democracy in the late 1970s and started unraveling in 2015.
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An avowed Nazi who told Politico he was running to fight a "two-party, Jew-party, queer-party" system will be on the ticket for an Illinois congressional seat this November.
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"The two-party system brought corruption and arrogance," said Pablo Iglesias, leader of the left-wing Podemos party, which has entered a preliminary agreement to form a government with the Socialists.
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For context, that would've made John Kerry the 2004 popular vote winner, and turned Barack Obama's 2008 victory into a landslide where he got 60 percent of the two-party vote.
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While the GOP is traditionally identified as the party of fiscal conservatism, that reputation has been squandered in recent decades, leaving Gen Z looking for options outside of the two-party system.
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They estimated that if Fox News hadn't existed, the Republican presidential candidate's share of the two-party vote would have been 3.59 points lower in 2004 and 6.34 points lower in 2008.
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It's possible that the strong two-party system in the U.S. leads to a more binary mode of thinking on this issue that does not accurately represent that of the scientific community.
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"It speaks to the fact that the two-party system is not working — it's my hope that our generation will be the generation that figures out a different way," Hagan tells Refinery29.
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The coalition is leading the national two-party count against centre-left Labor by 51.7% to 48.3% with just over 15% of the vote counted, according to Australian Electoral Commission data (AEC).
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The two-party consent law makes it a felony to record or eavesdrop on any confidential communication – namely, a phone call – without the consent of all those involved, Gregory G. Brown, Esq.
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Britain was seeing the emergence of a two-party structure, with Robert Peel's Conservatives on one side and the Liberals on the other, until the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846.
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The shift has hastened the decline of a centrist two-party system that stretched back decades, and led to the rise of Alvarado Munoz on a ticket of fiercely opposing gay marriage.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The leader of Sweden's center-right will ask parliament for a mandate to form a minority two-party government, he said on Monday, but admitted chances of success were slim.
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For example, in 1964, in the wake of John F. Kennedy's assassination, Democrats received 65% of the two-party support in polling, but collected less than 57% of the adjusted national vote.
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But it matters: as a verdict on Labour's leader, Jeremy Corbyn; as another complication in resolving Brexit; and as a warning of an earthquake that could yet reshape Britain's two-party system.
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The filter bubbles that polarize the extremes of a two-party system by making the "Other" unimaginable forecloses debate: this is the mechanism that is at fault for our current political climate.
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Pelosi's remarks follow the latest turn in the long-running feud between the two party leaders, which played out during Trump's annual address in front of the Congress and millions of viewers.
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Political outsider Nayib Bukele was elected in February as El Salvador's next president, bringing an end to a two-party system that has prevailed in the violence-plagued country for three decades.
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Instead, we should strive for a two-party system, or at least for an approximation to it, for such a system encourages a continual process of self-criticism by the two parties.
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"The drama is that we're seeing the end of the two-party system, but it is a terrible agony," said José Ignacio Torreblanca, the chief commentator of El País, Spain's leading newspaper.
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It's certainly worth pointing out that people have been predicting the death of the two-party system in America for years and also the demise of individual parties at various low points.
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To respond to these crises, liberals need the energy and ideas of socialism, while the left needs the access to power that only the Democrats can provide in our two-party system.
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Ms. Hoffmann and the two party figures who rose to the presidency, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Ms. Rousseff, were charged in September in a broad kickback scheme involving state contracts.
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The polarized two-party system of today is largely a product of our single-member, plurality-winner districts, which render votes for third parties "wasted" and discourage the formation of alternative parties.
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In a February New Yorker article, Jill Lepore wrote that our two-party system was actually a creation of the American press, starting with rigorous discussion about the ratification of the Constitution.
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As he tested the waters on his book tour, he spoke of what he saw as a broken two-party system and a sizable chunk of moderate voters exhausted by political extremes.
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The Newspoll showed Labor retained a lead of 52 percent to 48 percent over the government on a two-party preferred basis, where preference votes are distributed until a winner is declared.
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In a joint statement following the sit-down, the sides said that negotiators would continue talks Tuesday, with Rivlin inviting the two party leaders back to meet with him on Wednesday evening.
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Rutte's last government was a two-party coalition with the Labour Party, but with no party polling above 17 percent, at least four will be needed to secure a majority in parliament.
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But in a two-party system like the one we have in America, there can really only be one primary dividing conflict at any given time, since there are only two parties.
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They estimate that if Fox News hadn't existed, the Republican presidential candidate's share of the two-party vote would have been 413 points lower in 2004 and 6.34 points lower in 2008.
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"When people say he's a spoiler, we frame it as the 'two-party system is broken, and it's time for a centrist leader who will bring the country together,'" Mr. Strimple said.
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And when you have a two-party system, there's effectively a detente because if one would ever be split, the one that remains intact has an enormous advantage in terms of winning seats.
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Support for the coalition was 49 percent, a Newspoll found on Monday, on a two-party preferred basis where votes for minor parties are redistributed to the two main blocs according to preferences.
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By default, the Ownage Pranks app records the call and does not notify the recipient; if a caller or the recipient is in a two-party consent state, that could be a crime.
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After a little translation of my own, here's what it says: In a two-party conversation, received audio is analyzed to see if it matches with one of a variety of stored accents.
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When Spain still had a predominantly two-party system, the Basque and Catalan nationalists were able to exert leverage over minority governments in Madrid, always extracting more powers or money for their votes.
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The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition of 20153 brought a flurry of fresh predictions of an end to the two-party order, before the 2015 election went off-script and produced a Tory majority.
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In political science, there's an idea known as Duverger's law, which states that winner-take-all election systems lead to two-party political systems and proportional representation systems lead to multiparty political systems.
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In 2012 they won a comfortable 54% of the chamber despite receiving fewer votes than their Democratic opponents; in 2014 they converted a 51% two-party-vote share into 20103% of the seats.
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It's unfair to criticize Dr. Stein for merely running for president, even in a tight race like this; there's no inherent evil in making a futile attempt to dismantle the two-party system.
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But not only did she underperform Clinton's 2016 vote share by 3 points in the two-party vote share, she also underperformed relative to Barack Obama in 2012 during her first Senate campaign.
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So in that election, where the national popular two-party vote was basically tied at 50-50, any state that voted 54-46 one way or the other, or closer, would be included.
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Political outsider Nayib Bukele was elected in February as El Salvador's next president, bringing an end to a two-party system that has held sway over the violence-plagued country for three decades.
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He considered but rejected joining the race last year, but on Wednesday was phoning Democratic supporters to let them know he intended to run, the New York Times reported, citing two party officials.
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America's smaller political parties are perennially lost in the shadow of an entrenched two-party system, but as the urgency to stop Donald J. Trump mounts, interest is growing in some of them.
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A total of 2.66 million two-party votes were cast in assembly races and, ideally, 60.6 percent of the seats would correspond to 60.6 percent of the votes, which is 1.61 million votes.
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Mr. Lundy rejects the two-party political system entirely and has voted mostly for third-party candidates, if only as a statement of opposition to the choice of a Republican or a Democrat.
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Nearly three decades later, the greatest political event in recent British history, Brexit, would be orchestrated by a party that hardly made it into Parliament—all while two-party rule remained virtually intact.
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Monday's Newspoll, published in The Australian newspaper, showed the coalition with 46 percent support on a two-party preferred basis, where votes for minor parties are redistributed, eight points behind the Labor opposition.
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McCullagh inserts many legal caveats into this piece, citing wiretapping laws (and their loopholes) and two-party consent laws (which differ wildly across states, so it's not possible to make a sweeping recommendation).
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In recent years, Spain's political system has changed from a two-party system to one in which five parties each gained at least 10 percent of the vote in the last national election.
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The easier path for Republicans wanting to make California a two-party state again — because, frankly, it really is not right now — is to figure out a way to rebuild the existing party.
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Rottinghaus wrote in an email: The migration of Texas's big urban counties from red and purple to blue means Texas is a two party state for the first time in almost 30 years.
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Labor also overtook Morrison's Liberal-National Coalition on a two-party preferred basis, where votes for minor parties are distributed between the major parties, for the first time since Australia's election last May.
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Many Libertarians feel emboldened by a sense that 21625 could be a breakthrough year for the perpetually underachieving third party in its quest to smash the two-party grip on the political system.
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But the consequences of the political realignment in Britain, as in the United States, are much graver because their two-party systems prevent left-wing parties from simply resolving their differences by splitting.
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That would guarantee a populist, anti-establishment outcome and could even become the greatest shock to the American political system since the advent of the two-party system in the mid-nineteenth century.
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In a presidential two-party system filled with veto points (the Senate filibuster being only the most notable), it is almost impossible to do anything substantial without some cooperation from the other side.
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Former Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz, who is launching a book tour this week, said he's "seriously thinking of running for president" as a centrist who is positioned outside the two-party system.
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Scott Dehorty, LCSW-C, observes that while we have been a distinct two-party system for a long time, those two parties seem to be growing more and more at odds with one another.
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Britain has been protected from that by the resilience of its two-party- dominated system – but as in the United States, that means political battles within those systems can throw out wildly unpredictable consequences.
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AFTER the most volatile and closely run campaign in recent history, the French first-round vote has yielded an extraordinary outcome, putting two party outsiders into the final round of the country's presidential election.
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Although the official results may not be known for weeks (California accepts mail-in ballots postmarked on election day), all seven Republican-held Clinton districts look likely to feature two-party general match-ups.
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As we see earlier in "Great Again," Ally ran for public office on a platform of cult-breaking, citing the Democratic and Republican Party, the "entire two-party system," as other examples of cults.
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Libertarian: Trump has 'a screw loose' "The two-party monopoly in Washington has gotten to the point where it's kind of run out of gas, and it's even bad for the country," Weld said.
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Given the structures that support America's two-party system, Frum is probably right to dismiss the third-party idea, since any movement away from the Republican Party would be a path to political isolation.
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The two party representatives recorded in the Al Jazeera report, chief of staff James Ashby and Queensland state leader Steve Dickson, confirmed they attended the meetings but denied accepting a donation from the NRA.
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The two party leaders has had little public interaction though Foster said as recently as Thursday evening that May's catastrophic loss could mean she has to stand down from her role as prime minister.
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Such scandals helped two emerging parties challenge the traditional two-party system and alternation of power between the conservative Popular Party of Mariano Rajoy, the caretaker prime minister, and the main opposition Socialist party.
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The two parties change — some disappearing entirely or, as has been the case for the last century and a half, simply retaining their names but altering their policies — but the two-party system endures.
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"It will be Conte that represents Italy but I don't think he will be the initiator of policy without talking to the two party leaders first," said Jan von Gerich, chief analyst at Nordea.
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Fundraising is not, obviously, the sole determining factor when it comes to who wins and who loses, but it does tend to be an expression of passion and energy within the two party bases.
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If the United Kingdom's prime minister was willing to drop his Brexit deal with the European Union by November 14, the two party leaders could form a "Leave alliance" at the December 12 election.
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It's two-party or nothing In 2016, Bloomberg specifically didn't run as an independent, even though he had the cash, because he didn't want to play the spoiler and divert support from Hillary Clinton.
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Bukele's February election victory ended three decades of an electoral system dominated by a two party duopoly and was marked by the outsider's calls to wipe out entrenched graft in the poor, violent country.
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I think the problem that we have now is the two-party system doesn't really allow for that, because of how much power and how much money is centralized in the national political parties.
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The delay in responding by the two party heavyweights, along with other big names in Hollywood, has led to multiple segments across cable news on the matter, particularly on the two Fox cable outlets.
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Using only economic variables and data from elections over the last century, Professor Fair projects that the Democratic Party is likely to win 50.74 percent of the two-party popular vote for the House.
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First, here is the percentage of respondents supporting an assault rifle ban in each House district for Democrats (blue circles) and Republicans (red triangles), with Donald Trump's share of the two-party vote (i.e.
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Macron's rise — the invention of a successful third party, in a long-stable two-party system, in less than a year — is one of the most astonishing acts of political entrepreneurship in modern history.
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"He's definitely to the right of Breyer, toward the liberal end of the two-party divide," said Jacob Goldin, an economist and incoming law professor at Stanford and a co-author of the working paper.
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The Rabbits and Bears function as a loose allegory for both the two-party political system and the battle of the sexes, but both are ultimately corrupt and betray those who are counting on them.
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Their greatest similarity may, at the end of the day, be their ability to arouse anxiety in people whose comfort with democracy was built upon a two-party system that often serves to limit it.
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"We note that if President Trump maintains his -9.6pp net approval rating, combining this approach with our economic forecast suggests that he would win the two-party popular vote by a slim margin," Hatzius said.
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By setting a populist agenda that appeals to millions of Republicans and to substantial numbers of Democrats and independents as well, Trump has opened the door to a reshaping of the traditional two-party coalitions.
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Running as a third-party candidate in a first-past-the-post election system is likelier to reinforce the two-party duopoly, and the dangers of third parties, than to open America to multiparty democracy.
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"The main people who are supposed to participate in the dialogue ... (over the election) are not being freed," he told Reuters, referring to two party leaders accused of sexual assault and real estate fraud respectively.
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But under a two-party system, 20 percent of the vote would still be a minority within a party, leading to at best a few seats in the legislature and no shot at the presidency.
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His rise on a ticket opposing gay marriage was helped by the decline of a two-party system going back decades in a country that has long been considered one of Latin America's most stable.
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My premise is that our two-party system was designed for reasonable negotiation and compromise, and to move past today's dysfunctional stalemate we need to redefine that fundamental concept, even on the most basic issues.
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"A negotiation strategy that includes bluffing/threats can be successful in a two-party negotiation setup, but is more likely to deliver self-defeating results in a complex system such as global trade," he said.
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Here's how the rest of the most competitive Pennsylvania districts are shaping up after Tuesday primary results Democrat Scott Wallace easily overcame a challenge from two party rivals for the nomination in Pennsylvania's 503st District.
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But recognizing the persistent threads in principle give way for a launching pad in common ground, revealing that you and your neighbor voting for different candidates is merely a product of a two-party system.
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The only two-party coalition that could form a majority would require an agreement between the conservative Popular Party and the Socialists, Spain's two largest parties, which have alternated in office for over four decades.
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The extended nature of this particular matchup is due in large part to the dynamics of the district — and to the tenacity of two party outsiders who see, in alternating elections, a path to victory.
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Our report suggests most Americans don't have much understanding of alternative electoral systems, and don't really make the connection to the ways electoral rules entrench the two-party system that Americans are mostly dissatisfied with.
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Ever since the North defeated the South in the Civil War, America's two-party system, fostered by a first-past-the-post voting system and the need to build electoral coalitions, has been remarkably stable.
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While Mr. Nader is happy to rail against the "two-party tyranny" of the American electoral system, he thinks starting a third-party run at this point in the election season a near-impossible goal.
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For instance, what if a two-party system forced you to choose between keeping everything pretty much the same, or setting the world on fire, and neither seemed like a decent exercise of a franchise?
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Under special budget rules being used to push through tax legislation, they can lose two party votes and still pass it with a simple majority, including a tiebreaking vote cast by Vice President Mike Pence.
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Such scenes are likely to become commonplace with the end of two-party domination of Spanish politics and a new wave of delegates taking their seats alongside the well-groomed ranks of the old guard.
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In fact, such a claim is almost certainly false, for the reasons discussed in the last section: You can't overcome the deep sources of two-party polarization with lofty political rhetoric and centrist policy positioning.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's ruling party will dismiss President Robert Mugabe on Sunday and reinstate Emmerson Mnangagwa, the vice-president he fired, two party sources told Reuters on Saturday, as ecstatic crowds celebrated the expected downfall.
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More and more young people — not to mention disaffected moderates of all ages, as well as voters of color — are choosing to register without a party to preserve their independence from the two-party structure.
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Mr. Bloomberg, who was elected mayor in 2001 as a Republican, repeatedly explored running for president as an independent candidate but eventually concluded that a candidate from outside the two-party system could not win.
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Should Mr. Bloomberg become the Democratic nominee, it would set up a general election between two party-switching moguls from New York City, though Mr. Bloomberg's fortune is larger than Mr. Trump's many times over.
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At a meeting of Labour's National Executive Committee, Jon Lansman proposed a motion to abolish the post of deputy leader, currently held by Tom Watson, citing his disloyalty over Brexit, according to two party officials.
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" He argued that special-interest politics began during the New Deal and fragmented power further with the decline of the two-party system "to replace elected representation with interest groups as proxies for citizen participation.
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After appearing in the first two party debates, she didn't make the cut for the four most recent debates even as she managed to outlast sitting mayors, governors and members of Congress in the race.
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I explore the answer in my new book, but the short of it is that our Electoral College was designed for two-party competition and, without modification, cannot adequately handle third-party or independent candidates.
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A stable two-party system gave way in 2015 to hung parliaments, as public ire fuelled two newish parties: Podemos on the radical left and Ciudadanos, a centrist party a bit like the one running France.
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Reforms like these could force Republicans to change course sooner rather than later, and as long as we remain a two-party system, a more moderate Republican Party is essential to the future of American democracy.
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Take Spain, where a two-party system has become a five-party one and decades of stable government have given way to a spate of wobbly, short-lived governments that have struggled to pass important laws.
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Assuming a survival of the two-party system in form though not in spirit, even if only one of the diametrically opposite parties comes to flirt with unconstitutional means and ends, the consequences would be serious.
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Level the Playing Field, a nonprofit dedicated to breaking up the two-party system in America, petitioned the FEC in 22008 that the 22012 percent threshold violated FEC rules because it's designed to exclude alternative parties.
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Jonathan Bush, nephew of former President George H.W. Bush, told CNBC on Friday he's not thrilled with Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, and he hopes the election will bring about change in the two-party system.
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A closely watched Newspoll done for The Australian newspaper showed Labor ahead of the Coalition 52-48 on a two-party preferred basis, but that was down from 54-46 in the last poll in March.
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It's partly a function of our divided and divisive two-party system, and it's partly the result of the incredibly complex set of issues that surround and make up what we call healthcare in our country.
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In 85033, after the map was introduced, Republicans won 60 seats in the 99-seat Assembly, even though the party's candidates won 48.6 percent of the two-party vote, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.
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Alvarado Munoz's rise on a ticket fiercely opposing gay marriage was helped by the decline of a centrist two-party system that stretched back decades in a country long considered one of Latin America's most stable.
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Syriza, which broke a two-party-led system, has disappointed some on the left for implementing austerity measures and the reputation of the mainstream parties remains damaged following what is perceived as years of failed promises.
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National politics provide Farrington with a sturdy frame, but what makes his book special is his painstaking re-creation of scores of little-known state and local activists and a lost world of two-party competition.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Prime Minister-designate Carlo Cottarelli is considering giving up his mandate to form a government to open the way for an election as early as July 29, two party sources said on Tuesday.
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A one-party democracy — that is, a two-party system where only one party is interested in governing and the other is in constant blocking mode, which has characterized America in recent years — is much worse.
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" The libertarian congressman, who said he's become "disenchanted with party politics and frightened by what I see from it," argued that "the two-party system has evolved into an existential threat to American principles and institutions.
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The center-left ABV, led by Bulgaria's former president Georgi Parvanov, is not formally part of the two-party ruling coalition but had declared its support for it and in return had won a ministerial post.
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People who do vote for a third party will say things like, "You're reinforcing the two-party system," and I just don't think that's the case, because [a major party winning] is going to happen anyways.
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Farage said that if prime minister was willing to drop his Brexit deal by November 14, the two party leaders could form an electoral pact to deliver a pro-Brexit majority a the December 12 election.
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Whatever the outcome of the election on Sunday, a gap is growing between voters' policy preferences and the new conservative two-party system that seems to be emerging as the liberal-left opposition is shoved aside.
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She is credited with strengthening consumer protections and labor rights and passing an electoral reform law that made Chile's political system more inclusive by breaking up a two-party system and broadening the participation of women.
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Trying to marginalize third parties by treating them as second-class citizens, instead of challenging their voters head-on, will only sow the seeds of the demise of the two-party duopoly in the coming years.
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But on Saturday, 1.7 million South Australians will vote in what many are describing as the most exciting electoral race in a generation, as maverick insurgents look to overturn the state's traditional two-party political system.
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While the now two-party coalition retains a de facto majority in the 101-seat parliament, the Liberal Party's exit threatens more instability in the ex-Soviet nation, which has seen three governments fall since 2015.
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Podemos in Spain have just completely destroyed the two-party system, and radical left party Syriza from Greece have been locking horns with the European Union over bailouts and economic reform over the last twelve months.
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I've long been an on-the-record skeptic of the idea that someone running outside of the two-party system could be anything but a spoiler for one side or the other in a presidential contest.
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This "Fulcrum Strategy" is an ambitious but achievable electoral hack to the two-party system that can force greater cooperation between both sides and provide a mechanism to inject new ideas and thinking into the system.
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An Essential Poll for the Guardian newspaper on Thursday showed Labor ahead of Morrison's coalition government by a margin of 51.5-48.5 on a two-party preferred basis where votes are distributed until a winner is declared.
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ET. (CNBC) Former Starbucks (SBUX) Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz, who is launching a book tour this week, said he's "seriously thinking of running for president " as a centrist who is positioned outside the two-party system.
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And in a two-party system, there are two ways to do this: make each group feel valued in their coalition, and/or convince each group that the other party would just be deadly for their interests.
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Additionally, incumbents finishing the first term for their party have received a greater share of the two-party vote than candidates whose party has already controlled the White House for two or more terms, according to Goldman.
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In Europe, differences between countries can also be explained by the voices of conservative think tanks and the media, but these voices are more influential in the U.S. than anywhere else because of the two-party system.
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But in a two-party system, a party that prevails while consistently failing to capture a majority of votes will one day find it is no longer seen as exercising power legitimately by a majority of voters.
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Market for Johnson Third party candidates have traditionally had a rough ride in the two-party US election system — none have made a significant national impact since billionaire Ross Perot grabbed 19% of the vote in 1992.
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Thus if the model's best guess eight months out is that the leading party will receive 51.5% of the two-party vote, we say that there is an 80% chance of that party winning the popular vote.
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On a two-party preferred basis - where votes for minor parties are redistributed to the two main blocs - the government trails Labor by a margin of 52-48, a Newspoll by The Australian newspaper on Monday showed.
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In some ways, this makes Maine a good test case for ranked-choice voting, since Maine has a history of electing independents and relatively balanced two-party competition could make it more sensitive to electoral rule changes.
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VandeHei's piece was deservedly mocked on political Twitter, but his impatience with the two-party system as we know it is shared across the country's upper class, from Silicon Valley to the (ahem, Hamiltonian) world of finance.
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It only abated here in the United States, after nearly destroying the country, because in the years after Reconstruction two powerful new mass political movements, Populism and Progressivism, disrupted the traditional structure of the two-party system.
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The crisis of American adolescence may be the result of possessing a fully functional brain before it gets beaten out of you by horrible jobs, crappy television and the currently endless absurdities of two-party electoral politics.
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BILL O'TOOLE Arlington, Va. To the Editor: Is it any wonder that many Americans think that a two-party system does not provide enough of a choice for voters, especially in a country the size of ours?
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Some states have laws that act on top of the federal one and increase the requirement for recording to "two-party consent" — which, again, is just what it sounds like: All parties must consent to any recording.
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"A two-party democracy cannot provide stable and effective government unless there is a large measure of ideological consensus among its citizens," writes the economist Anthony Downs in his widely cited classic An Economic Theory of Democracy.
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Wlezien and Erikson passed along an estimate to me, based on current horse race polling and leading economic indicators, that Clinton would get 21972 percent of the two-party vote, a nearly 20003-point win over Trump.
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Despite appearances in the "reddest of red states," Latter-day Saint values have never fit perfectly with the political divisions of the two-party system, but the age of Trump has made that misalignment much more pronounced.
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Here, Schale found that Clinton won the early vote with 56.3 percent of the two-party vote, but only won 47.3 percent of the Election Day vote — a highly unusual gap suggesting a pretty significant late surge.
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According to Mr. Fair's most recent forecast, made at the end of January, Mr. Trump will receive 54.4 percent of the two-party vote in November, which is likely enough for a victory in the Electoral College.
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Lee Drutman is a senior fellow in the political reform program at the New America think tank and the author of the forthcoming book, Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America.
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In America's zero-sum two-party system, it would not take large swings in such key groups to yield big political impacts — and even with Democrats winning large 2016 margins within them, they still lost the presidency.
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Fights over identity now define national partisan competition because they echo and reinforce fundamental divides in the ethnic and geographical coalitions of the two major parties and amplify the zero-sum stakes of two-party electoral conflict.
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On Wednesday, three lawmakers quit Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party, joining eight rebels from the opposition Labour Party in a bold attempt to smash Britain's entrenched two-party system for the first time in a generation.
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