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.
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.
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.
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crawley@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
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.
Haui@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 2y
Isn’t it funny that even politics is duopoly in the US?
morrowind@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
I think Yang had it right by changing the voting system entirely
FireTower@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
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.
Lemmylaugh@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
For a third party system, It’s not about losing it’s about making sure those other guys lose.
TallonMetroid@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
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.
spittingimage@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Proportional representation is the way to go.
LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Yeah, don’t be fooled. Repubes will still line up to vote for the naziest candidate they can find.
WaxedWookie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
That just means that we need an independent Nazi candidate to pull votes from the GOP, guaranteeing a loss for both.
emc@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Not possible with first past the post. Pointless to even talk about.
workinkindofhard@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
If it didn’t happen in 2016 it isn’t going to happen.
arin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
If we appointed the president by number of individual donations Bernie Sanders would have won in 2016 and 2020 by a landslide
Clent@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y