▲ 343 ▼ Green Party candidate Cornel West owes more than half a million dollars in taxes and child support: Records (abcnews.go.com) submitted 3 years ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 244 comments fedilink hide all child comments ABCnews
[+] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com -27 points 3 years ago (2 children) except when it has worked... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Astrealix@lemmy.world 33 points 3 years ago Even Teddy Roosevelt didn't get it to work. permalink fedilink source parent [–] LetMeEatCake@lemm.ee 28 points 3 years ago* Which is... never. At least for presidential elections. I can't speak for the marriage proposals. The Republican party didn't appear out of nowhere in 1860 to win a presidential race. They were formed in 1854 and supplanted the Whig party entirely before the 1860 election. It was a majority party throughout the north before it won a presidential race — it wasn't a "third party." Likewise, Democrats replaced the Democratic-Republican party in much the same way that republicans replaced the Whig party, and had been a major party from its very beginnings. Literally in their first election there were only two parties running! There are only three other parties that have won the presidency: Federalists (there from the inception of the party system), Democratic-Republicans (ditto), and Whigs (major party years before first electoral win). There's been no "third party" that has ever won the US presidency. All three have the same story as democrats as starting off in an election with just two parties. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Astrealix@lemmy.world 33 points 3 years ago Even Teddy Roosevelt didn't get it to work. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LetMeEatCake@lemm.ee 28 points 3 years ago* Which is... never. At least for presidential elections. I can't speak for the marriage proposals. The Republican party didn't appear out of nowhere in 1860 to win a presidential race. They were formed in 1854 and supplanted the Whig party entirely before the 1860 election. It was a majority party throughout the north before it won a presidential race — it wasn't a "third party." Likewise, Democrats replaced the Democratic-Republican party in much the same way that republicans replaced the Whig party, and had been a major party from its very beginnings. Literally in their first election there were only two parties running! There are only three other parties that have won the presidency: Federalists (there from the inception of the party system), Democratic-Republicans (ditto), and Whigs (major party years before first electoral win). There's been no "third party" that has ever won the US presidency. All three have the same story as democrats as starting off in an election with just two parties. permalink fedilink source parent