re: #186 doppelganglander

We always end up back at two parties, but there’s often a transitional period where three or four parties are active. I’m thinking specifically of how the Republican Party was founded when the two major parties were the Democrats and the Whigs. When the Whigs flamed out, many of its members, including Lincoln, became Republicans. I could imagine a third party founded by center-right elements of both parties eventually supplanting one of the Big Two.

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That’s the squishy center where Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe & Susan Collins live.