Voting third party in the United States is meaningless

[winb83]

Now Bill Kristol and his people are talking about trying to get a third party candidate on the ballot in at least enough states to block Hillary and Trump from getting to 270 so the election kicks over to the house and they can pick said third party candidate to be president.

The whole system is a joke.

 

[SirReginald]

Think of the tea party. It existed inside the republican party instead of becoming its own real party. This is because if they can sway the republican voters to their side then they can get people elected in the two party system. If the tea party exits the republican party and becomes an official third party they would never get enough of the vote to have any meaningful power.

The problem isn't him getting on the debate stage. The problem is he can't win. He'd need 270 to win and no third party candidate is gonna get that much. In fact if he can manage to peel off a few states he could end up either helping Hillary or blocking both from hitting 270 which means the incoming House picks the president and the Senate picks the vice president. Both houses are republican so you tell me who wins.

I know you're probably frustrated but there's really noting you can do in this system that doesn't play into it. If you don't vote the candidate that's closest to your ideology looses that potential vote and it strengthens the candidate furthest from you. Anything other than voting for the candidate from the to major parties that's closest to you will help the candidate furthest from you.

It would take constitutional amendments and a total change of our election system to change things. too many people are satisfied with the way things are now for that to happen. if we started having run off elections we could have many more parties.

Problem is Trump fits my ideology on foreign policy and trade better than Clinton does.