User blog comment:Commdor/BioWare Releases ME2 Statistics/@comment-1691295-20100907050421/@comment-217683-20100907064759

Yeah, but what I meant is that, in this election, the there was Labor, and then their main competitor was the Liberal/National Coalition, and even then, who decided the election? Was it anyone from either of those parties/coalitions? Nope. It was third party and independent members. We can't even get these so-called "fillers" elected here. You've got two Independents in the Senate, who are both really Democrats, and one in the House, who is also similarly partisan. And when a third-party candidate wants to win, what do they do? They switch to one of the big two, like Ron Paul did. I envy any system where independent/small party candidates can influence anything.