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(s)Elections See other (s)Elections Articles Title: Americans Renew Call for Third Party Americans Renew Call for Third Party Fifty-eight percent of Americans, and 62% of Tea Party supporters, favor third partyb y Jeffrey M. Jones PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans' desires for a third political party are as high as they have been in seven years. Fifty-eight percent of Americans believe a third major political party is needed because the Republican and Democratic Parties do a poor job of representing the American people. That is a significant increase from 2008 and ties the high Gallup has recorded for this measure since 2003. The finding, based on an Aug. 27-30 USA Today/Gallup poll, comes at a time when Americans are widely dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States and give relatively weak approval ratings to the president and Congress. Though the rise in support for a third party could be linked to the Tea Party movement, Tea Party supporters are just about average in terms of wanting to see a third party created. Sixty-two percent of those who describe themselves as Tea Party supporters would like a third major party formed, but so do 59% of those who are neutral toward the Tea Party movement. Tea Party opponents are somewhat less likely to see the need for a third party. The desire for a third party is fairly similar across ideological groups, with 61% of liberals, 60% of moderates, and 54% of conservatives believing a third major party is needed. That is a narrower gap than Gallup has found in the past; conservatives have typically been far less likely than liberals and moderates to support the creation of a third party. Independents, as might be expected given their lack of primary allegiance to either of the two major parties, express a greater degree of support (74%) for a third party than do Republicans (47%) and Democrats (45%). Over time, independents have consistently been the political group most eager to see a third party formed. But each party group is more likely now than in 2008 to support the formation of a third major party. At that time, about two months before the presidential election, 38% of Democrats, 40% of Republicans, and 63% of independents thought a third party was necessary. Bottom Line Election results in recent years and polls from this year indicate Americans are frustrated with the job the two major parties have been doing. In 2006, voters elected a Democratic majority in Congress to replace the Republican majority, and in 2008 they elected a Democratic president to replace an outgoing Republican president. Polling on voters' 2010 voting intentions suggests that they may be poised to replace the Democratic majority in Congress with a Republican majority. But that seems to be as much because voters are rejecting Democrats as embracing Republicans. Given the lack of alternatives, it perhaps is no surprise that Americans' desires for a third party are as high as they've been in at least the last seven years. And while the formation of an official third party is not imminent, that desire may be manifested in voters' strong anti-incumbent sentiments this year. Survey Methods Results for this USA Today/Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Aug. 27-30, 2010, with a random sample of 1,021 adults, aged 18 and older, living in the continental U.S., selected using random-digit-dial sampling. For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points. Interviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones (for respondents with a landline telephone) and cellular phones (for respondents who are cell phone-only). Each sample includes a minimum quota of 150 cell phone-only respondents and 850 landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas among landline respondents for gender within region. Landline respondents are chosen at random within each household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday. Samples are weighted by gender, age, race, education, region, and phone lines. Demographic weighting targets are based on the March 2009 Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18 and older non-institutionalized population living in continental U.S. telephone households. All reported margins of sampling error include the computed design effects for weighting and sample design. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls. View methodology, full question results, and trend data. For more details on Gallup's polling methodology, visit http://www.gallup.com/.
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#14. To: abraxas (#0)
I might have believed a third party could be beneficial 30 years ago before I understood the corrupting influence of the FEDERAL RESERVE BANKING SYSTEM and its associated central banking entities. Today, I believe our best chance to recover liberty and justice for "all" is to remove all central banks from creating and issuing credit. There may be some advantage to leave their clearing houses in place purposed to process negotiable instruments, but the ability to create and issue credit leaves the bank owners in a position superior to the government and the law. This superior political position allows for much mischief and infiltration like we're witnessing immediately in the Tea Party effort, which in actuallity is a third party effort being purchased by political pundits (pariah) in the form of proxies such as Glenn Beck, Steve Forbes, Bill Bennett, and Sarah Palin that are without exception always PRO-ISRAEL and Anti-Islamic warmongers. Look, the American people want this current 2 faction (Dems and Reps) war party terminated. The Democraps and the Reflubricans have had ample opportunity to do right by the American people but have chosen instead to screw them continually. What would make anyone believe the banking cabal wouldn't be able to corrupt the third party or just buy it outright. The international banking cabal only has the ability to construct their international prison when we participate in the process using credit and cash supplied by them and HELP BUILD THE PRISON that will contain our children. This truly is insanity at its most dangerous level because most everyone is either addicted to it or too dumb to see the suicide they're committing. We need a Bank Burning Party if a party is what people want. I'll supply the beer, matches and gasoline. End The Fed !
#16. To: noone222 (#14)
Excellent points Noone..........one thing I can deem a sure bet--there will be no getting rid of the Fed with the two party fraud in power, both are in line with the ponzi scheme and wouldn't dream of lifting a finger to save this nation.
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