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    27 days ago

    The I guess change is never going to happen. No third party candidate in the past 30 years has come even close to Ross Perot in the 1992 election. He got 18.9% of the vote. Do you know how many of the 270 electoral college delegates he needed to win that he got? Zero. Not a single delegate. You have to literally go back more than 100 years to find an example of a third party candidate even coming that close.

    So if that’s your big hope for change, you might as well just give up and get out of everyone else’s way.

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        27 days ago

        When did this become just about you? You said change has to happen by voting third party.

        Did you even work for a third party campaign this year? If so, which one and what did you do?

        Or do you hope you can just talk about voting third party to random people on internet forums and use the rules laid out in The Secret and then it will come to pass?

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            27 days ago

            Right, so you didn’t actually campaign for any candidate, which makes your “vote third party” idea even sillier.

            This is how many third party candidates there are this year:

            Jill Stein
            Chase Oliver
            Claude De La Cruz
            Randall Terry
            Cornel West

            So if you think people should vote either for Green Party candidate Jill Stein or Constitution Party candidate Randall Terry and it doesn’t matter which one because “third party or nothing,” you are an unserious person.

            It’s like saying you don’t care if dinner is shit or salad as long as it isn’t meat.