02-09-2008, 02:25 PM
In the US, at least, single-issue parties tend to not do all that well. I mean, yeah, the Know-Nothing Party, the Free Soil Party, the Anti-Mason Party, and the Populist Party all had some success, but not enough to break the two-party system we've had since the Republicans formed. It's an even stronger system today than it used to be, the way I see it. Even a party with well-defined views on a variety of issues would have little success simply because of the sheer power of the two major parties.