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Wouldn’t this system give more information to voters? One of the problems of only having two parties is that just knowing someone’s party doesn’t tell you all that much about them.  Paul Wellstone and Joe Lieberman were both Democrats – but they had nothing in common.  If you had a Christian party that endorsed only socially conservatives Republicans, you’d know a lot more about the people they endorsed just from the information on the ballot.

 

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