Or at least all the candidates counted with the dataset I could find
no. you are just wrong. a million votes here or there for a third party candidate wouldn’t change shit, except you’d give democrats a clear target for whom to blame the win of trump on. its not like every single other country in the western world, even those with not completely insane electoral systems, hasn’t been experiencing a giant right wing shift over the last few decades-
I’m not hearing an explanation for why other than a general cultural attitude towards it being pointless rather than a mechanistic one.
except you’d give democrats a clear target for whom to blame the win of trump
Yes and that happens here too. Except it means the parties know who they need to win over and for what specific reasons. It causes parties to create policy intended to take voters away from those third parties.
stop being a lib, like come on. unironic “push them left” posting is cringe af
