• crawley@lemmy.world
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    1 年前

    Third party will never ever happen with the electoral college. Whichever party forms a third party and said third party will both lose 100% of the time.

    • morrowind
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      1 年前

      I think Yang had it right by changing the voting system entirely

    • FireTower@lemmy.world
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      1 年前

      The electoral college has less of an impact than fptp voting IMO. Ranked choice or Star voting would actually allow third party candidates to win local elections at least.

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      1 年前

      For a third party system, It’s not about losing it’s about making sure those other guys lose.

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        It about making the guys who you hate least lose, ironically. Voting against the other guy is already baked into FPTP, so if you vote for a 3rd party you’re voting against both the main parties. Except the party you hate the most would’ve already gotten your anti-vote anyway, so really you’re just adding an anti-vote to the other party, which is adding a handicap to them that wasn’t there before.

  • LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world
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    1 年前

    Yeah, don’t be fooled. Repubes will still line up to vote for the naziest candidate they can find.

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      1 年前

      That just means that we need an independent Nazi candidate to pull votes from the GOP, guaranteeing a loss for both.

  • arin@lemmy.world
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    If we appointed the president by number of individual donations Bernie Sanders would have won in 2016 and 2020 by a landslide