Third party voter here.
I don’t expect any third party candidate to win.
My home state of Connecticut is solidly blue. All of our electoral votes WILL go to Harris, no vote of mine could change that even if I wanted it to, which I don’t. I am no fan of Trump.
I vote for whichever third party looks likely to get the most total votes, because of a third party can drum up 5% of the total national popular vote they get a lot more federal election funds in the next election.
My voting priority is for next cycle, to get a third party on the debate stage. That’s what I’m voting for.
Whatever you think you will achieve will be reversed by the spoiler effect, as others said, unless you get people in positions of power where they can help change FPTP voting system to something else nothing will change. until then 3rd party candidates will be nothing else than useful idiots to try to siphon votes from one of the sides
How about getting one single third party candidate elected to a city council, as a mayor, as a judge, a state legislator, to congress? You know, positions that can actually affect change, instead of wasting your vote and time on doomed bids for the presidency.
You’re ignoring the thing about federal election funds. Is attempting that goal a “waste?” By that logic, in a solidly blue state, voting for any major party candidate is also a waste because you as an individual can’t impact the outcome.
That’s how and when to vote for third party.
No one going to suddenly become a third party president, especially if there isn’t anyone else in government that’s the same party.
Third party voter here. I don’t expect any third party candidate to win. My home state of Connecticut is solidly blue. All of our electoral votes WILL go to Harris, no vote of mine could change that even if I wanted it to, which I don’t. I am no fan of Trump.
I vote for whichever third party looks likely to get the most total votes, because of a third party can drum up 5% of the total national popular vote they get a lot more federal election funds in the next election.
My voting priority is for next cycle, to get a third party on the debate stage. That’s what I’m voting for.
Whatever you think you will achieve will be reversed by the spoiler effect, as others said, unless you get people in positions of power where they can help change FPTP voting system to something else nothing will change. until then 3rd party candidates will be nothing else than useful idiots to try to siphon votes from one of the sides
How about getting one single third party candidate elected to a city council, as a mayor, as a judge, a state legislator, to congress? You know, positions that can actually affect change, instead of wasting your vote and time on doomed bids for the presidency.
You’re ignoring the thing about federal election funds. Is attempting that goal a “waste?” By that logic, in a solidly blue state, voting for any major party candidate is also a waste because you as an individual can’t impact the outcome.
That’s how and when to vote for third party.
No one going to suddenly become a third party president, especially if there isn’t anyone else in government that’s the same party.