In a Gallup poll conducted in September 2014, only 35 percent of Americans believed the two major parties adequately represented them, and 58 percent of Americans thought that the Democratic and Republican parties do such a poor job representing the American people that a third major party is needed. This is one of the highest percentages Gallup found since it first raised the question of a third party a decade before. The prior high point in expressed desire for a third party occurred in October 2013, during the partial federal government shutdown. Interestingly, 46 percent of self-described
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