Reply #5: 1995 Gallup poll: 62% favored creating a 3rd party [View All]

DLC doesn't get it. Never will.

http://www.fairvote.org/irv/end_majority_rule.htm

A Gallup poll in August 1995 showed that 62% of Americans favored "formation of a third political party that would run candidates for President, Congress and state offices against the Republican and Democratic candidates." The support for such a third party increased steadily the younger the voting age group, with 18-29-year-olds favoring formation of a third party by a lopsided 72%-18% margin. Gallup also found that the proportion of voters calling themselves independents had doubled since 1940 to its current 39%.

As Colin Powell has remarked, the national results in 1992 and 1994 indicate an electorate that is "channel-surfing." In 1992, voters tried the Democrats and Bill Clinton, in 1994 they tried the Republicans and Newt Gingrich