• GiddyGap@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      They’ll never have a chance in a winner-take-all electoral college system.

    • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 months ago

      You’ll never convince 160 million people to vote 3rd party. So a vote for 3rd party is a vote for the most popular of the 2 candidates.

      • Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        No, a vote 3rd party is a vote against your most tolerable of the two viable candidates.

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        9 months ago

        The key here is that it’s a vote for the most popular of the 2 candidates based on the votes of who bothered to vote for them specifically, then further butchered via the EC. It’s a smaller, different pool of people that may elect someone that the actual majority prefer less, because part of the actual majority decided to play a different game entirely.