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Originally Posted by Cal
But why is it inappropriate that R and D splinter groups be the third-party pioneers? There'd be shitloads of brains and money on both sides who detest the rest of their bunch enough to go solo.
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In theory, maybe. In practice, though, the people who split off are more likely to be at each others throats and thus fragment. This is what happened to the Reform Party after Pat Buchanan and his group bolted from the GOP in 2000; they took control, and Jesse Ventura's faction in Minnesota broke away from them.
The pattern that it generally follows is that if a faction gets mad enough to split with whichever party they're in, they'll either smooth out their differences or join the other side.
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