07-20-2018, 05:29 PM
(07-20-2018, 04:10 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Yeah, that's pretty much it. You would've seen Clinton win. Our electoral system prevents any real chance for a third-party, especially for POTUS, but it also makes the odds strongly against it in most levels and branches of our government.
They still have nightmares about Ross Perot. After that election, there's no way they were going to let a right-wing populist go out there and poach votes from the Republican nominee.
Let's be honest. Hillary was an abysmal candidate, but were any of the non-Trump Republicans much more exciting? Would any of them have energized the base like Trump did? No way in hell. They'd have stood zero chance against Hillary plus a 3rd party challenger, or Hillary alone more than likely. They were all just as stale and boring (and even in some cases easily disliked) as she was.
