#perot — Public Fediverse posts
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@TonyStark @philip_cardella @CivilityFan @axeshun
You're acting like this is a chronic problem.You have to remember the political climate in 2000. Bush was seen as incompetent. Gore was handicapped by Clinton's impeachment & sexual misbehavior (remember when those things actually mattered to the #GOP?)
#Nader saw an opening as support for the other two parties was below 50%.
This was also just 8 years after #Perot made it seem like a 3rd Party candidate could actually win.
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CW: Long thread/3
The #Nader and #Perot campaigns were doomed from the outset, in other words. Either candidate could have been far more popular than the D *and* R on the ballot, and they still would have lost. It's how the deck is stacked, and to unstack it, reformers would need to take charge of at least one - and probably both - of the parties.
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