How does the Electoral College affect the political strength of the two-party system in the United States?
The College undergirds the two-party system with its state-by-state, winner-take-all approach, which, in turn, helps preserve national unity.
Although they tend to favor Republicans, the Tea Party has problems with both political parties and the two-party system in general.
The two-party system was undreamt of by the founders of the Republic.
The two-party system is a boon for America when it is seen as providing a voice for two parts of a unified whole.
Left out of the two-party system, libertarians must examine all issues.
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Despite the emergence of the centrist contender Francois Bayrou as a third force at the presidential election, the parliamentary vote largely confirmed the two-party system.
His party has dented the two-party system long dominated by the Pakistan Muslim League-N and the outgoing Pakistan People's Party and could steal votes from both.
If it works, he says, the two-party system that can usually be relied upon to reach some kind of compromise might once again be allowed to function.
Democracy is changing before our eyes - more elected posts, more voting systems, more choice as the two-party system continues to break down and, above all other things - more unpredictable than ever.
As outside-the-establishment movements like the tea party, Occupy Wall Street and Ron Paul followers are showing, the two-party system isn't big enough to absorb the concerns and passions of hundreds of thousands of grass-roots activists.
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This kind of platform has wide appeal and he could reach his target of 5% of the popular vote, says Nielson, who wants people to back his man in protest at the dominance of the two-party system.
Many worry that partisanship in the U.S. leads to policy paralysis, but political disagreement here pales in comparison to the European Union, which has 27 member states whose political landscapes feature far more parties than the two-party system in the U.S. The U.S. also possesses a single jurisdictional political entity that allows it to enforce a common fiscal and monetary policy across all of its parts.
Since the start of the modern two-party system in the mid-19th century, the party of an incumbent president has never captured control of the House from the other party in a midterm election.
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The old two-party system is dead, says Spiros Makrigiannis, a shopkeeper in Anavra.
Some have argued the commission unfairly favors the current two-party system.
But the internet, for all its leveling, is obviously not enough to shake the pillars of the status quo, or to break the entrenched two-party system.
"One of the justifications for this campaign is to preserve and expand the right of third parties and independent candidates to challenge the two-party duopoly system, " Nader said.
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Mr. Najib replaced former leader Mr. Badawi in 2009 after the opposition broke the National Front's comfortable two-thirds majority in the 2008 polls, turning Malaysia into a genuine two-party system for the first time in its history.
Mr. Najib himself replaced former leader Abdullah Badawi in 2009 after the opposition broke the National Front's comfortable two-thirds majority in the 2008 polls, turning Malaysia into a genuine two-party system for the first time in its history.
On the theory that a united party of the right will then be matched by a united party of the left, France may therefore now be on the road to a two-party system familiar to voters in countries such as the United States, Britain, Australia, Spain or Germany.
One of his main aims, which Mr Zeman seems to share, is to change the electoral system to encourage a broadly two-party system to emerge, rather than the present one in which small parties tend to hold the ring.
The Radical party, the non-Peronist pole of a two-party system since 1945, has all but disappeared: its official candidate won just 2% of the vote.
Worse, we are locked (due to the winner-take-all nature of our elections) into a two-party system, so that removes a lot of nuance from the equation and leads to inefficiencies.
The case for Americans Elect is a polarizing two-party system that stymies debate and chokes choice that quashes voter involvement.
Nominally, Japan's slow moving political realignment has produced a kind of two party system, with the long-entrenched Liberal Democratic Party pitted against the New Frontier Party, which is made up mainly of dissidents from the LDP and the religious-based Komei party.
The arrangement gives an edge to the larger parties and will likely result in a two-party system.
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