The electoral college system is idiotic because it allows losers of the
popular vote to win the election. But it's not the reason for the two
party system. Notice that third party candidates are still spoilers in
races for governor or senator which don't have an electoral college
system. The way to make third parties viable is something like
rank-choice voting or a parliamentary system. But the founding fathers
deliberately sought a two party system because they saw third parties as
giving two much power to minorities.
Brent
On 5/8/2024 5:35 AM, John Clark wrote:
*Because of our idiotic Electoral College system no third-party
candidate, like vaccine denier Robert F. Kennedy Jr, has a chance of
becoming president, however he can influence the outcome of the
election. The conventional wisdom is that Kennedy's candidacy will
help Trump but that appears not to be true because previously Trump
had an ironclad grip on the lunatic vote, but now Trump will have to
split it with Kennedy. A recent poll indicated if it was just a
two-man race 47% of Kennedy supporters would vote for Trump and only
29% would vote for Biden. He really is splitting the lunatic vote, and
Trump seems to have noticed and he doesn't like it:*
Trump rails against RFK Jr., calling him a ‘wasted protest vote’
<https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/27/trump-rfk-jr-2024-election-00154746>
*There is even more evidence of the good deeds Robert Kennedy Junior
may accomplish in the November election, not only will he cause the
lunatic vote to be split between Trump and Kennedy, there's also
evidence he could be instrumental in kicking Ted Cruz out of the
Senate. Kennedy voters would prefer Trump over Biden, but a recent
poll of Texas independent voters indicated they would prefer any
Democratic senatorial candidate over Ted Cruz, who is on the ballot
for reelection in November, by a margin of 50% to 38% with 12% undecided.*
*THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL AND TEXAS U.S. SENATE ELECTION CONTESTS
<https://www.txhpf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TXHPFPresidentSenateApr2024.pdf>
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*And it seems probable with Kennedy on the ballot the number of
registered independent voters who decide to take the trouble to vote
will significantly increase. If more independent voters go to the
polls Trump will get more votes but that's OK because there is
virtually no chance of Biden winning in Texas regardless of how many
fringe party candidates are on the ballot, and it will increase the
number of votes for Cruz's Democratic opponent.*
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*If that revolting prick, Ted Cruz, is kicked out of the Senate in
November a little of the sting of a Trump victory and becoming the
most powerful human being on Earth during the Singularity would be
reduced. It would be a very small reduction in the existential dread a
second Trump presidency would cause me to feel, but the relief would
be greater than zero.*
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John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis
<https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>
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