It has been said a gazillion times over the last few months, but is it getting through to those who need to hear it?

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    1 month ago

    It doesn’t matter how many candidates third parties pull from.

    If no candidate gets 270 votes, the election is decided by the House. That’s at the electoral college level, but see jordan lund’s breakdown above and how a majority “not Trump” votes will be split among candidates but Trump still wins the state because the “not Trump” voters couldn’t get their shit together and coalesce around a single candidate.

    And if the election goes to the House, Assuming Republicans maintain control, take one guess who they’re going to elect?

    • voiceofchris @lemmy.world
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      And why is everyone assuming that all of the third party voters would be Harris voters if they were forced to choose between the two main candidates? This is where the logic goes south. It assumes that the third party voters are some homogenous bloc of disenfranchised “not Trump” voters.