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lastguymn 56M

2/11/2016 11:53 pm

Most people who care about politics are concerned with the electability of candidates, particularly the ones on the side they agree with. Since a third party has never really won a U.S. presidential election, third party candidates who have made some inroads have generally been viewed as spoilers because they tend to pull more votes away from one party than the other. The biggest third party spoilers in recent history were Nader in 2000, which some say lost the election for Gore, and Ross Perot in 1992 and 1996, who supposedly hurt the Republicans.

Your vote really has no power if goes un-cast...the only reason people claim this is because they see your vote not going to their side.

The reason you get basically the same candidates from each party in each election cycle is due to the extreme polarization in national political thought (few people vote across party lines these days) and the money from corporate special interests who are determined to maintain the status quo and resist any kind of meaningful change. The system has been corrupted by dark money and lobbyists to the point where our vote becomes less and less powerful. That needs to be changed if we're going to survive as a democracy.


~LastGuy

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