A third party would be a good disruptive force though. We (myself included) look at Perot's example, but it kind of lacked a plan and I question if the time was right for anything you could sustain...if you can sustain anything like that at all.
Today though party polarization makes a third party increasingly likely. It could only have staying power if the other two remained ideologically removed from centrist voters. I'd hazard a guess that a third party would be 60/40 or 70/30 Democrats over Republicans given how far and how fast the Blue side has moved.
Regardless, a third party would push one or both of the others to abandon some policies which would cause voters to return to one of the original two.
I'd love to see a third party if only to jolt to other two into something other than the status quo.
Today though party polarization makes a third party increasingly likely. It could only have staying power if the other two remained ideologically removed from centrist voters. I'd hazard a guess that a third party would be 60/40 or 70/30 Democrats over Republicans given how far and how fast the Blue side has moved.
Regardless, a third party would push one or both of the others to abandon some policies which would cause voters to return to one of the original two.
I'd love to see a third party if only to jolt to other two into something other than the status quo.