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Why do 3rd party voters in the US seem to lean right politically?
Why do 3rd party voters seem to lean right politically?
Given the growing gap between the two major parties, there's room in the middle for a third party. Third parties on the left tend to be even ...
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Why do 3rd party voters in the US seem to lean right politically?
Another explanation is that the Green Party offers nothing new to the conversation that the Democrat Party doesn't already cover (Green Party politics are well adopted in the Democrat party, so people ...
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Why do 3rd party voters in the US seem to lean right politically?
Is that always true? Ralph Nader's 2000 run is widely believed to have siphoned enough votes from Dems to let Bush win.
Sure, if you count from 2004 on, you have the effect you state.
And, in a way (...
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Why do 3rd party voters in the US seem to lean right politically?
Here's a small selection of Libertarian views, and a general look at where their views fall (I offer this as a broad generalization for the sake of argument)
Libertarian View
Leans Right
Leans Left
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Why do 3rd party voters in the US seem to lean right politically?
I think this whole question is based on a false assumption.
But if you break it down by which 3rd party is being voted for, you
find something interesting. In every presidential election from 2008
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Why do 3rd party voters in the US seem to lean right politically?
The answer is contained in the time period, for the most part.
Expand to include 2000, and you include the election where voters for the Green Party cost Al Gore the election, at least in the common ...
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Why do 3rd party voters in the US seem to lean right politically?
There are a lot of different factors that go into this, so I just want to mention some aspects unmentioned by other posters.
Take, for example, the long history of repression of radical politics in ...
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