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Or at least all the candidates counted with the dataset I could find

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 39 minutes ago

15million people that voted Biden last time couldn't be bothered putting in a protest vote for something.

If Americans actually did this it would scare the fuck out of the two parties to see a third, fourth and fifth candidate with millions of votes.

Instead they resign themselves to apathy and "it's wasted anyway". When actually getting up and doing that shit directly empowered things like the UK leaving the EU.

If the 15million missing voters were on other parties instead of just being absent the Dems would have to reckon with "we need to be more like this third party to get those votes". But instead what we're seeing is "we need to be more like Republicans to get those votes"

What is it with americans and simply not voting or recognising political power exists within votes outside the two parties?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I googled the bottom item - Robby Wells of The Party Party. I hoped the results would be funny. Maybe he was a guy that hosts raves or something? Spoiler alert: Bleh.

2024 Presidential Candidate-Robby Wells' plan takes the best from the Left & Right Wings...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

A sizable number of write-ins are likely PSL too. They weren't officially on the ballot in many states but had write-in status recognized.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

My vote still has not been counted so I already know the number will be going up

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

And RFK, who dropped out, got six times that!!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Really surprised that Claudia de la Cruz overtook Cornel West so significantly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

I'm not, tbh. I liked a lot of the things Cornel West had to say, but after his weird interaction with the Green Party he just seemed fundamentally unserious, even by third party standards. I don't really understand what he was trying to accomplish with his campaign.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 hours ago

same reason republicans vote for Trump instead of neocon Democrats: why go for the generic brand when you've got the real thing?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

Pretty big chunk of white left leaning libs would go for PSL but not West. I probably would've gone for him if he wasn't kicked out of the race in my state.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

I think I'm mostly surprised because he's received quite a bit of media attention, or at least he did for a minute but I guess if he didn't even make it on the ballot in some places that would obviously affect the numbers

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty big chunk of white left leaning libs would go for PSL but not West.

Why do you think that?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Because he believes in systemic white supremacy in the US. Beyond people that actually read theory (tiny minority), black liberation has not been a popular issue for white people since 1865. Fucking California just voted to keep prison slavery

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

I'm not sure you'd find a PSL chapter that doesn't either. It's in the main party program

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 hours ago

Vermin Supreme really fell off

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 minutes ago

He was going to run for president...