> Another issue - "third-partyism" annoys me just like third-worldism and
> third-wayism do. In the ideal world, yes, it would be nice to have
> something else that two big-business parties, but we do not live in an
> ideal world and have deal with what we have. Those who pop-up as 'third
> party' presidential candidates are either pathetically naive or act as the
> fifth column splitting votes. A genuine effort would be party-building at
> the grass-roots. For a while I though the Labor Paerty was serious in that
> - but what happened to them?
>
> So in the absence of any real alternative - Gore seems the only choice or
> rather the "lesser weevil".
Apparently, these guys share your thinking:
http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~ajkessel/o3/image42.htm
Chuck0