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At least we kept bLuEmAGa from being in power! That would have been MUCH worse!/s (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Then you cherry-pick "50 years". Completely ignoring the 18.9% the Independent party got in 1992 for some reason. Quit running victory laps and examine your faulty logic. What an asshole.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What percentage did they get in 1996? 2000? Perot split the conservative vote with Bush and allowed Clinton to win the election with only 43% of the vote. That's not an outcome I want to replicate on the left.

Compare Perot with Trump who ran a very similar nationalist/populist strategy as a party outsider. Trump ripped the party out of the establishment's hands and won the Presidency. Perot would have been well advised to run as a Republican.

I didn't ignore 1996, I just don't see it as a counter example to what I said. Perot lost by a wide margin, split the vote with his next closest candidate, then dropped to half as many votes in the next election. And that was when third parties could get into the debates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I deleted the message by accident and reposted it. No idea why you decided to respond to it twice. Not even sure how it's possible for you to respond to a deleted message. Kind of annoying dude!