• elscallr@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Being a lifelong third party voter, I’ve heard the “spoiler” line probably a thousand times, and always from Democrats.

    Anecdotal, sure… but that “might” is a hedge and we both know it.

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      1 year ago

      Well, I lived in Canada over 3 election cycles, and I saw the riding I lived in go to the conservatives with 40% of the vote in 2 of them. If the incumbant MP didn’t go to jail, it probably would have been all 3.

      Again, it isn’t politics, it is simple math. In a plurality voting system, voting for a 3rd party (by definition, the candidate with the least support) always increases your chances of getting what you perceive as the worst outcome.