Sunday, July 6, 2008

Springfield, symbolic of two party norm

While at Springfield and seeing both the Senate, and House Floors I have realized that two parties are the norm in America. Both places were divided between Republicans and Democrats by a center aisle, Liberals vs. Conservatives. I also noticed that there were no third party candidates currently elected to the state congress. I can see potential problems with this setup and some could be linked to the current day problems of funding and budgeting in Illinois. Due to increasing polarization between the parties it becomes even harder to find a middle ground and to settle issues. Below is a link to a possible third party option that is being currently advocated but never been implemented.

http://www.americanreform.org/ARP-State-Affiliates/illinois.html

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