Timur Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 https://news.gallup.com/poll/329639/support-third-political-party-high-point.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPotatoTed Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 (edited) Certainly interesting, but not statistically much different than the level of support indicated in that same poll when it hit 60% in Oct of 2013 and has hovered around there since then. Now it's at 62%. I'm more interested in the big falls and leaps -- why did it collapse to 33% shortly before Obama was elected? Why did it jump from 46 to 60 at the start of Obama's second term? Don't know, but those big swings are more interesting to me than a 2% increase being a "ALL TIME HIGH!" Edited May 3, 2021 by MrPotatoTed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rezi Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 Americans have had an itching for a third party candidate to rise up for a while now, it’s just that no one wants to put in the work for to make one rise up because, statistically, they won’t. As long as the spoiler effect, first past the post, and media bias against third parties exist, it unfortunately won’t happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilight Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 There are also major structural impediments to developing other parties put in place in recent years. The larger parties have rigged the system to prevent competition. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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