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Voters Want a Third Party. They Just Don’t Want Musk in Charge of It. (truthout.org)

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Nearly two in five Democratic-leaning voters would consider joining a non-Musk-led third party.

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[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Perot received almost 20% of the national popular vote in 1992 and don't win a single electoral vote. There hasn't been a single electoral vote to a 3rd party presidential candidate since 1968. It would take some unbelievably consistent polling showing a massive margin of victory to convince me a 3rd party can win at the state or federal level as long as we have first-past-the-post.