I definitely want to watch this
PBS special.
CRASHING THE PARTIES 2004, a one-hour special airing on PBS Wednesday, September 29, 2004, takes the Robert Frost approach – the political road less traveled. Viewers will meet all the third party candidates who are on enough state ballots to have a mathematical chance of winning the presidency. Spanning the ideological spectrum, these underdogs share one thing in common – a passionate desire to make America a better place.
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Advocates of a two-party system argue that multiple parties weaken the electoral process by fragmenting the country into special interest groups, instead of building a broad-based coalition-achieving consensus. Third party supporters maintain that they make the elections more inclusive and representative of the public. In their view, Americans have dozens of choices of toothpaste brands – why not more than two choices for the most powerful job on earth?
I forgot to mention — thanks for the heads up on this one. I put a tape in the vcr and caught the show when I got home. It’s interesting how these little parties, who seem so much closer to the itended process, get almost no traction because of the domination of the bastardized version of American democracy that we seem stuck with…
Unfortunately, I forgot to tape it. 🙁