Ed Morrissey

We have seen disillusionment with the two-party system in Gallup's polling on partisan identification. More American voters now choose to remain unaffiliated rather than choose one of the two parties, although if more states adopted closed primaries and required affiliation at registration, that would likely change. The problem with Luntz' argument, though, is that voters almost entirely ignore alternative candidates in state-wide or national elections. They may complain about the choices -- especially this cycle -- but they rarely choose others. Maybe that will change this year, but there's no real evidence that it will.