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Instead of harassing the Green Party with frivolous lawsuits, the Democrats should focus on nonvoters and embrace popular policies.

Instead of harassing the Green Party with frivolous lawsuits, the Democrats should focus on nonvoters and embrace popular policies.

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍
    82·
    3 months ago

    I’m inclined to disagree with at least some of this. Until we replace first-past-the-post, parties have to address spoilers like Stein, or else they’ll lose elections - not to the spoilers, but to the other major party.

    Just like Gore lost to Bush in 2000, largely because of spoiler candidates.

    Don’t get me wrong: third parties deserve to run, and should have a chance, but they won’t until we fix our election system; and campaigns will continue to have to face and attack parties that might draw votes. RCV may not be perfect, but it would address this issue

    • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
      81·
      3 months ago

      Gore lost because of fuckery and courts not 3rd parties.

      Sadly nothing has been done to address the court doing the same again, especially with how many of the justices being part of fucking over gore?

      • Cort@lemmy.world
        31·
        3 months ago

        If not but for Nader the results wouldn’t have been close enough for the courts to ratfuck.

      • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍
        11·
        3 months ago

        Despite their small numbers, Nader’s and Buchanan’s supporters provided the margin of victory for Bush. If Nader had not been on the ballot, Gore would have carried Florida and all of the other close states easily, giving him a comfortable electoral total of at least 292. [4] If Buchanan had not been a candidate, the Florida ballot might have been simpler to understand, giving Gore enough votes to win the national election simply by carrying the Sunshine State. Even without Florida, we might speculate–but cannot demonstrate–that an election without Nader would have enabled Gore to campaign in other winnable states (most obviously Tennessee and New Hampshire) and overcome his shortfall of only three electoral votes. https://www.uvm.edu/~dguber/POLS125/articles/pomper.htm

        Also, Nader himself indicates in post-election analysis, quoting exit polls showing that 25% of his voters would have voted for Bush instead, but 38% would have voted for Gore (the rest would have voted for some else, or nobody). Nader got 10,576 votes in Florida; Gore lost Florida by 537 votes. Without Nader, Gore would have won Florida by 837 votes: 64% more votes than he lost by.

        Without Nader, Gore would have won the 2000 election.