Source: Washington Post
by Jim Geraghty
“Since 2003, more than half of the country — 56 percent on average — has agreed that the United States needs a third major political party, according to a Gallup poll in October. Americans say they want options beyond Democrat or Republican, but when presented with those options in the form of, say, the Green Party or the Libertarian Party, they shrug and pick either the Democrat or the Republican. In the 2024 presidential election, 98.2 percent of all votes were cast for either Trump or Kamala Harris. Four years earlier, 98.2 percent of votes were for Trump or Joe Biden. In 2016, 94.4 percent of votes were for Trump or Hillary Clinton. … Americans keep saying they want another option, but they don’t vote like it. That’s a pretty important detail if you want to influence government policies.” (07/07/25)