Americans Are Less Likely to Vote for Minor-Party Candidates, and More

Americans are less likely to vote for minor-party candidates, and more concerned in close elections with wasting their votes, than voters in many other democratic countries because ______________.

A) minor-party candidates are at a disadvantage in the single-member district, plurality-winner systems that dominate American electoral politics
B) nearly all Americans tend to see politics in a bifurcated or black-and-white way
C) the country's parties fight over a narrow slice of ideological ground, comparatively speaking, and keep alternative or "extremist" views from winning attention
D) increased concentration of media ownership has led to less coverage for minor parties and alternative policy and ideological views