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Podcast: BBCollective
Episode: The Road Not Taken: 3rd parties in American politics
Description: Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts set course on a journey in search of answering a simple, yet nuanced question: do “third” (political) parties matter? Historical and contemporary electoral landscapes are littered with candidates and movements from outside the two-headed Democratic/Republican stranglehold: Whig, Reform, Libertarian, Green, Working Families and on down the line. What place at the table: yesterday, today and moving forward, do the presence of these parties and their respective candidates have? The question takes a complicated turn when considering efficacy on the national versus the local/municipal level. Where thir...