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Swing Voters Deliver Harsh Verdict
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<blockquote data-quote="RocksInMyHead" data-source="post: 77657875" data-attributes="member: 284142"><p>If they don't put up candidates, of course they're never going to win anything. I can't tell you the last time I saw a non-whackadoodle 3rd-party candidate for local office. Local politics are weird - you have plenty of non-partisan offices, and people tend to run on reputation more than the letter after their name on the ballot. If parties like the Greens put resources towards local races rather than throwing them away on moonshot presidential campaigns, they could absolutely win elections. They'd just have to use a little strategy - target races without incumbents or established frontrunners in areas where their policies have traction. Win some mayoral races or state legislative seats, and that gives them a springboard to move up to higher offices. It'll take a few election cycles to build anything on a national level, but it definitely can be done. The only real impediment is the election system itself, which strongly favors a two-party system, but again, that's less of an issue at the local level.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RocksInMyHead, post: 77657875, member: 284142"] If they don't put up candidates, of course they're never going to win anything. I can't tell you the last time I saw a non-whackadoodle 3rd-party candidate for local office. Local politics are weird - you have plenty of non-partisan offices, and people tend to run on reputation more than the letter after their name on the ballot. If parties like the Greens put resources towards local races rather than throwing them away on moonshot presidential campaigns, they could absolutely win elections. They'd just have to use a little strategy - target races without incumbents or established frontrunners in areas where their policies have traction. Win some mayoral races or state legislative seats, and that gives them a springboard to move up to higher offices. It'll take a few election cycles to build anything on a national level, but it definitely can be done. The only real impediment is the election system itself, which strongly favors a two-party system, but again, that's less of an issue at the local level. [/QUOTE]
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