It's not that the media "tells" you that; though they do. But that's just a reflection of the current state of mind of the populace. People "know" this "fact",

It's not that the media "tells" you that; though they do. But that's just a reflection of the current state of mind of the populace. People "know" this "fact", that a 3rd partier basically has no chance. I mean, look at Ron Paul. He's completely different from the normal Republican; by all rights he should have been in a separate party. But he wouldn't have gone very far with that. He had to stick with the big party to see it through. The problem is that Republicans and Democrats just have too much power. They have critical mass, and nobody else does.