Third_Party

Third Party Despite being the constant underdog and loser in major elections third parties make some significant contribution to the political spectrum in the United States. Third Party Agendas are taken serious by the Democratic and Republican Parties and specific pieces of the Third Party Agendas are sometimes adopted by the two major parties. Third parties give discontented voters other alternatives. The Republican and Democratic Parties have been known to operate in similar styles and third parties give the voter the opportunity to express their discontent. The third parties in the United States are policy advocates and often are more specific about were they stand ideologically. Often the Republican and Democratic Parties try and take a moderate approach to political issues, and third parties are more conservative or liberal when it comes to political issues. Also, third parties tend to do exactly the opposite when their agenda concerns social issues. Then there is the 'spoiler factor' a Third Party Candidate can collect enough votes to change the outcome of a Presidential Election. In the United States political scientist and other scholars have placed third parties into four specific categories with various political functions. party, third, parties, states, political, candidate, united, system, republican, election, issues, two, vote, presidential, popular, democratic, campaign, social, race, major, libertarian, formed, voters, successful, perot, often, agenda, won, wallace, views, strong, split, sometimes, reform, ran