Sunshine (she/her)M to Fairvote CanadaEnglish · 7 days agoAnother First-Past-The-Post Myth the Powerful Few Sell Youimagemessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1158arrow-down16
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minus-squareMajorllama@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·7 days agoYeah but that would require someone to break off from one of the two powerful parties. And historically there is little to no support of third party candidates. What’s the most a third party ever got? Like 3 percent of votes?
minus-squarebelastend@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 days ago19%. The Reform Party. And then it got taken over by Pat Buchanan.
minus-squareThe Snark Urge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoThe purpose of the system is what it does
Yeah but that would require someone to break off from one of the two powerful parties. And historically there is little to no support of third party candidates. What’s the most a third party ever got? Like 3 percent of votes?
19%. The Reform Party. And then it got taken over by Pat Buchanan.
The purpose of the system is what it does