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  • aidan@lemmy.worldM
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    1 year ago

    Spoiler candidate when not voting for one of thr two preferred oligarchs is kind of a degrading term. Perot didn’t spoil the Bush campaign- and the Libertarian party, that gets more votes than the Green, draws mostly from “would-be Republicans”

      • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        did you even read your own link??

        A 1999 study in the American Journal of Political Science estimated that Perot’s candidacy hurt the Clinton campaign, reducing “Clinton’s margin of victory over Bush by seven percentage points.”[117] In 2016, FiveThirtyEight described the speculation that Perot was a spoiler as “unlikely”

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        1 year ago

        The Bush campaign put forward a worse candidate and lost. It was a more competitive and better election cycle.

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      1 year ago

      You’re talking like I’m not actually a fan of Biden. I am. The problem with West is his ticket is literally being paid for by the right. So yes, in this case, he is very much a spoiler candidate.

      • aidan@lemmy.worldM
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        1 year ago

        No I’m criticizing calling people who vote for the candidate they support a “spoiler”

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      1 year ago

      Shhhh, you have to buy into the if you don’t vote the way I vote your the problem narrative both sides live off of.