Considering the Libertarian party got so big cause of Ron Paul 2008/2012, how beautifully poetic of an ending is this for /pol/? The whole board started out as a Ron Paul containment board/project.
Another hilarious thing: in every state where Howie Hawkins and Glorida La Riva were on the ballot, there isn't a single state where giving all their votes to Biden would flip the results. In other words, even if you assume all Green/PSL votes are leftist dissent votes, you can't blame them for any of Biden's losses.
An interesting, related race to watch is Susan Collins in Maine. The "ranked choice" system means that they start off only reporting the first choice numbers. If the top candidate gets less than 50%, then and only then, do they eliminate the 3rd party candidates votes and move them to the first two. Currently, its 49.8%, 43.4% and 4.3%. The Independent, Lisa Savage, is progressive, and told her voters to make sure they have Sara Gideon as their 2nd choice. We might actually get to see this process take place, but its not looking good. Still cool that voting third party doesn't affect the election results negatively.
Considering the Libertarian party got so big cause of Ron Paul 2008/2012, how beautifully poetic of an ending is this for /pol/? The whole board started out as a Ron Paul containment board/project.
Another hilarious thing: in every state where Howie Hawkins and Glorida La Riva were on the ballot, there isn't a single state where giving all their votes to Biden would flip the results. In other words, even if you assume all Green/PSL votes are leftist dissent votes, you can't blame them for any of Biden's losses.
An interesting, related race to watch is Susan Collins in Maine. The "ranked choice" system means that they start off only reporting the first choice numbers. If the top candidate gets less than 50%, then and only then, do they eliminate the 3rd party candidates votes and move them to the first two. Currently, its 49.8%, 43.4% and 4.3%. The Independent, Lisa Savage, is progressive, and told her voters to make sure they have Sara Gideon as their 2nd choice. We might actually get to see this process take place, but its not looking good. Still cool that voting third party doesn't affect the election results negatively.
It's ironic. /pol/ could get others reelected, but not themselves.