Here it is:
“The Wall Street Journal notes that in a recent speech former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan described "the two American parties now as controlled by their extreme wings, even though the voting public is far more centrist.”“He described the leadership of the parties as ‘bimodal’, meaning clustered at the extreme ideological ends, whereas the voting public was ‘monomodal’, meaning clustered near the middle.”“Such situations, he said, create an opening for a third-party candidate who appeals to the center. That, he said, could prompt the candidates of the other two parties to move back to the center, for fear of losing. He said the U.S. political system makes it difficult for a third-party candidate to win.”It is an understatement to say third-party candidates have difficulty winning elections. How about letting Independents, where the biggest bloc of centrists are, vote in primaries, thus electing more centrists from the two major parties?
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