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The Shrinking Third Party Effort

The Shrinking Third Party Effort

No Labels quietly folds its tent for lack of interest

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Matt Kerbel
Apr 08, 2024
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President Theodore Roosevelt
Now he was a third party candidate. Photo by Library of Congress on Unsplash

Two things are true of third party presidential candidates. They never win elections.1 And most of them go unnoticed.

It’s impossible to be a third party candidate in a winner-take-all electoral system where the major parties get to write the rules. That’s why they all follow the …

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