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Why A Third-Party Candidate Might Help Trump — And Spoil The Election For Biden
(fivethirtyeight.com)
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this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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This is common in First Past the Post voting structures. CGP Gray does a great video to explain this.
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Isn't it interesting that this part never factors into the discussion? Its always brought up that third party candidates spoil votes for the more popular candidate, but only so far as "and that's why you need to vote BLUE"
The Democratic establishment doesn't want to fix this issue. They want to be able to coerce people into voting for them out of fear of the ever more openly fascist GOP.
Spoiler candidates is a reality because of fptp.
I agree that this is why major parties oppose ranked choice. The problem is that until we find a way to get ranked choice, they are right.