2006: Year of the Third Party?

With Republicans generally tied to the President's low approval ratings and Democrats still largely viewed as the party of idealess contrarians, the Armchair Politician wonders if political pundits will begin wondering whether these attitudes will mark an upward trend for third parties in the 2006 elections. It could be that American citizens, fed up with the options provided, will flock to outlier parties such as the Green, Libertarian, and Constitutional. Or perhaps it will be the Year of the Independent.

Most likely, though, citizens will recognize the inherent inability for third parties to succeed--due largely to low numbers of votes--and choose not to waste their votes. The Armchair Politician has learned, in fact, that by saving a vote, a citizen may use the extra vote in future elections. The country now waits with bated breath to see on which potential aught-eight presidential candidate millions of disillusioned voters will decide to redeem decades of saved votes.

Stay tuned for an exclusive report on how headlines that come in the form of questions invariably are answered in the negative.