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Support for Third U.S. Political Party Up to 63% (news.gallup.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For a third party system, It’s not about losing it’s about making sure those other guys lose.

[–] TallonMetroid 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 points 1 year ago

Proportional representation is the way to go.