On: Why Vote? Freakonomics' take on voting

[Prrometheus]

Definitely post-war and post-Medicare part D.

[dangoldin → Prrometheus]

I feel that the Republican party needs to go back to it's Buckley roots. Seems the modern Republican party is just sliding into an abyss.

[eru → dangoldin]

Is there any indication that a new party will take the GOP's place in the two-party system?

[dangoldin → eru]

I don't know enough to answer that but intuitively it seems that as long as the two parties alternate presidents and tend to get a similar number of the popular vote there isn't much incentive to change.

I'm not sure if a change would be drastic, it would probably just be a gradual move to capture new voters without alienating old ones.