• Deceptichum@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    Well it’s simple, what are the Democrat voters going to do, vote 3rd party?

    They’re held hostage to the party, so the party has no need to reflect them, it just has to be less bad than the Republicans.

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      8 months ago

      what are the Democrat voters going to do, vote 3rd party?

      Sit on their hands like they did in 2016.

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      8 months ago

      Of everyone who claims no third party could win would actually coalesce around and vote for a third party candidate, the third party would win. Their children apparently aren’t suffering and starving enough, yet.

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        8 months ago

        No they wouldn’t, it would, at most, be a deadlock between the three parties that the House would decide on. One would hope they would go with the one with the most votes, but in reality they can pick anyone. Including someone who wasn’t even one of the top three candidates.

        Not to mention all the people who want a “third party” aren’t necessarily going to vote for the same third party. They all want their own person. Most likely none of them would get anywhere near the majority popular vote, much less any electoral votes.

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        8 months ago

        Unless you’re in Nee Hampshire right?

        Or like we saw with Bernie, they’ll sabotage your campaign and rig the DNC.