How To Fix America!

It’s interesting to me that the general impression is that the United States is a two party system. This is just not true. Below is a list of all the declared candidates for US President.

Affiliated:
American (Independent) Party: Alan L Keyes
Boston Tea Party: Charles Jay
Constitution Party: Charles O. Baldwin
Democratic Party: Barack Obama
Green Party: Cynthia McKinney
Independent-Ecology Party: Ralph Nader
Libertarian Party: Robert L. Barr
Party of Socialism and Liberation: Gloria E. LaRiva
Prohibition Party: Gene Amondson
Reform Party: Ted Weill
Republican Party: John McCain
Socialist Party USA: Brian P Moore
Socialist Workers Party: Roger Calero

Non-Affiliated:
Jonathan E. Allen
Jeffery H. Boss
Richard A. Duncan
Bradford Lyttle
Frank E. McEnulty
John Joseph Polachek
Thomas R. Stevens

Write in Candidates:
Stephen P. “Steve” Adams (Independent-Kentucky)
Donald K. Allen (Independent-Ohio)
Blake Ashby (Independent-Missouri)
Lawson Mitchell Bone (Independent-Tennessee)
John K. Bootie (Independent-Pennsylvania)
Clark B. Braxton (Independent-California)
Richard H. Clark (Independent-Maryland)
Don Cordell (Independent-California)
Orion Karl Daley (Balanced Party-New York)
Christopher J. Dardzinski (Write In-Michigan)
Michael David Elder (Independent-Texas)
Cris Ericson (Marijuana Party-Vermont)
Michael L. Faith (Independent-Ohio)
Nick Farmer (Write In-Indiana)
Quay Fortuna (Ward Republic Party-Iowa)
Ronald “John Galt Jr.” Gascon (Independent-Pennsylvania)
Mark B. Graham (Independent-Florida)
Pete Grasso (Independent-Virginia)
Jack Grimes (United Fascist Union-Pennsylvania)
Leonard C. Habermehl (Independent-Kentucky)
RaeDeen Heupel (Independent-North Dakota)
Thaddaus Hill (Madisonian Federalist Party-Texas)
Ronald Hobbs (Independent-Pennsylvania)
Brian Holland (National Socialist Movement-Virginia)
Yonyuth Hongsakaphadana (Independent-Connecticut)
William “Bill” Ingram (Independent-North Carolina)
Paul Jensen (Independent American-Michigan)
Rob Jorgensen (Independent-North Carolina)
Keith Russell Judd (Independent-New Mexico)
Daniel Kingrey (Independent-New Hampshire)
Steve Kissing (Independent-Ohio)
David Koch (Independent-Utah)
William R. “Bill” Koenig (Independent-Virginia)
Lou Kujawski (Independent-Ohio)
Elvena E. Lloyd-Duffie (Independent-Illinois)
Brad Lord-Leutwyler (Independent-Nevada)
James E. Lundeen (Independent-Ohio)
Joe Martyniuk (Independent-Illinois)
West Marcus (Independent-Alabama)
Charles Maxham (Give Me Back America Party-New Jersey)
James McCall (Independent-Ohio)
Tom Millican (Independent-North Carolina)
Robert Milnes (Independent-New Jersey)
Phillip W. Morrow (Independent-Texas)
James Mote (Independent-?)
Kevin Mottus (Independent-California)
Gary Nettles (Independent-Florida)
Jeff “Petro” Petkevicius (Independent-Louisiana)
John Leroy Plemons (Independent-Indiana)
Desmond Ravenstone (Independent-Massachusetts)
Arthur J. Regan (Independent-Massachusetts)
Platt Robertson (Independent-Nevada)
“Average Joe” Schriner (Independent-Ohio)
Edward N. Schwarz (Youth International Party-New York)
Jonathon “The Impaler” Sharkey (Vampire, Witches & Pagan Party-New Jersey)
Charles Symonds (Independent-California)
Diane Templin (American-California)
Da Vid (Light Party-California)
Lanakila Washington (Humanist Party-New York)
Jerry White (Socialist Equality Party-Michigan)
Ruth Bryant White (Independent-Nevada)
Kelcey Wilson (Independent-California)

So in this election alone we have 13 declared parties. The key here is that only two of them are so entrenched in the political system that they’re the only ones really getting attention and thus money.

Political Party information taken from http://www.politics1.com/p2008.htm This site also has links to most of the candidates web sites (those that have one.)