Which of the Following Statements About Third Parties Is True

question 80

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about third parties is true?

• A) No third party has ever successfully emerged from the winner-take-all political system in the United States.
• B) H. Ross Perot in 1992 demonstrated that third parties could succeed in the United States and built the Reform Party into a viable option for disaffected voters.
• C) Only those third parties that manage to supplant one of the two reigning parties as a viable option in voters' minds gain rather than lose support from strategic voters.
• D) The Whig Party was the third party to replace an existing party in 1856 when the Republican Party fatally split over the issue of slavery.