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by lostlogin 3364 days ago
As a total outsider - it's amazing that a place as huge as the US has a two-party system. splitting everything into one camp or the other makes for groupings that don't always work.
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alistairSH 3364 days ago
A two-party system is the expected result of plurality rule (which the US uses almost exclusively for national elections).[1]

1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law

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