> the party is not thrown out of office Where I grew up, we had two radically oppositional factions that just happened to wear the same label during national e

> the party is not thrown out of office Where I grew up, we had two radically oppositional factions that just happened to wear the same label during national elections. The number of viable parties isn't always a good measure of political diversity or the capacity for churn in government. Maybe they're correlated in Baltimore, though, I'm less sure there. City governments have fewer moving parts, so they can get captured by a strong network of insiders and the network can stay in power for decades.