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Phillips, Kevin | July 8, 1996 issue

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More than 60 percent of Americans tell pollsters they want a third party. The Supreme Court has just announced that in its autumn term, it will consider a Wisconsin case with major implications for third party opportunities. It is not hard to see the existing two-party arrangement turning into a kind of two-and-a-half-party system in which a half-dozen small and mid-sized parties play havoc with the current Republican-Democratic duopoly. U.S. politician Ross Perot has his Reform Party moving along, and is expected to take its nomination himself rather than see his handiwork shrivel with granny-bashing Dick Lamm, Colorado's onetime "Governor Gloom."

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POLITICAL parties -- United States; REFORM Party (US); NOMINATIONS for office; APPELLATE courts; POLITICS, Practical; UNITED States
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