<div class="gmail_quote">On 14 November 2012 11:07, Rafal Smigrodzki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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</div>### Minority parties in the US have no chance of ever changing the<br>
status quo, due to the existence of the electoral college and<br>
non-proportional voting.<br></blockquote><div><br>Where there are no proportional electoral systems, the point of small parties, in many cases single-issue parties, is to weigh the constituency for their platform. In this respect, they have an influence in the sense that large parties fine-tune their own propaganda in order to keep them small, and above all to get the support of people who feel strongly enough on a given subject to swing as a consequence of the position of a candidate on the same.<br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>