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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sure, but we also have to realize that we live in a country with a two-party system and a winner-take-all electoral college. If you're not helping your candidate, you're helping the opponent.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    we live in a country with a two-party system

    Although they're perpetually marginalized, we do have third-party candidates.

    Edit: Amusing how people downvote a neutral, factual statement.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years 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.

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