The Dangerous Illusion of a Presidential Third Party in 2024

jordanlund@lemmy.worldmod to politics @lemmy.world – 215 points –
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Really you don't need to read more than one chart:

If you vote for anyone other than Harris, you're voting for Trump:

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Oh really? I don’t really get how your system works I guess lol. Cos I thought if he drops out he’s out. So he’s still running against Trump in some states basically? I would have thought he’d be taking votes from the right rather than the left though. But I probably just don’t understand your system properly tbf.

He tried to remove himself from the ballot in multiple states and was told "LOL - yeah, no."

There are deadlines due to having to print the ballots, once you're past a certain point, there's no going back.

https://thehill.com/homenews/4872514-states-where-robert-f-kennedy-jr-still-on-ballot/

He’s currently on the ballot in nearly half the country:

Alaska 

California 

Colorado 

Delaware 

Hawaii 

Indiana 

Iowa 

Kentucky 

Louisiana 

Michigan 

Minnesota 

Nebraska 

New Mexico 

Oklahoma 

Oregon 

Tennessee 

Utah 

Vermont 

Washington 

West Virginia 

Wisconsin 

Ahh ok haha well that’s good at least. I can’t see any left leaning would-be democrat voters voting for the guy who dumped the carcass of a bear in… I wanna say.. Central Park?

I love that they’re like “paper doesn’t grow on trees dude, we ain’t wasting anymore”.

I don’t really understand why these independents bother. Do they really think they’re gonna turn 3% (being generous) into 51%?? I don’t think so. I wonder if there’s some ulterior motive in play, like to just get their name out there and then with that name recognition, get elected into a much lower down position at state level.

Jill Stein in particular who at her BEST got 1.07%.

Generally she's 0.1% to 0.3%.

Hahah literally what is the point!? Well like I say. Probably is about name recognition otherwise why bother.

Either that or Jill is retired and bored/senile.. isn’t Jill the same name as Biden’s wife actually? Hahah. Maybe it’s Biden in a wig. Who can say?