25 August 2011 UTC Also in fin the states not excluding possibility of some smaller backwater jurisdiction have not adopted a two party system by law Rather this has been conflated with them adopting various statutes that make it very difficult but by no means impossible for other parties to get ballot access In the PRC for example there is only one legal political party and the same was true in the Soviet Union This is what s called semantics and why people who say it s just semantics betray their stupidity ignorance In some cases e g Cook County IL the dominance of a single party can make it look like there is such a basis 14 20