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ModernBourbon Democrat
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« on: October 10, 2020, 10:45:19 PM » |
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If negative partisanship keeps increasing it's not inconceivable that third party candidates running in places where the local Reps or Dems didn't bother could actually do better than the major parties otherwise would have even with considerably fewer resources. It's not like it's totally without precedent; in Canada the Liberals intentionally withdrew from a race to let the Greens try to take a Conservative seat (they failed, but they probably did better than the Liberals would have).
Of course, the likes of the Republican Party of Hawaii and the Democratic Party of Tennessee have dozens of political climbers and staffers who don't want to lose their prospects and salaries over living in the wrong state so there's no way they'd risk getting displaced by the local Greens or Libertarians, but if that wasn't an issue it could be a viable way to force the national parties to invest resources in otherwise safe seats.
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