Which of the following statements about third parties is true?
A) No third party has ever successfully emerged from the winner-take-all political system in the United States.
B) H. Ross Perot in 1992 demonstrated that third parties could succeed in the United States and built the Reform Party into a viable option for disaffected voters.
C) Only those third parties that manage to supplant one of the two reigning parties as a viable option in voters' minds gain rather than lose support from strategic voters.
D) The Whig Party was the third party to replace an existing party in 1856 when the Republican Party fatally split over the issue of slavery.
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