of what? getting 5% of the vote and some funding? that’s hardly gonna make a difference, not the way you want it to
That's the normal fucking size (actually, larger) for exit polling which are largely correct, moron. It's also way more than necessary to be statistically significant. Take a stats class
The party gets funding. They could easily take congressional seats. They'll get spots at the presidential debates. It's actually a fucking huge deal. You don't understand anything about the American electoral process or system of government
getting a spot at the debates for those sweet sweet 2 minute soundbytes, totally gonna reshape the American political system
uh huh
It actually makes a huge difference for down-ballot races in Congress, some of which are uncontested and many of which third party candidates have pulled within striking distance of. And the perception of legitimacy that lends is massive
you mean the country that has basicslly had the same two parties (excluding the Whigs) since its inception? that country?
that’s great and all but in the big picture it’s still almost nothing
not to mention the Libertarian party and the American Green party are both utter shit
Holy shit you need to learn history before you speak. There were plenty of times third parties emerged as viable enough to take Congressional seats and destroy a party's chance at winning the Executive, which forced major party platform changes. The most famous example was the Progressive party, but the Tea Party movement giving support to the libertarians is a huge reason for the massive right-ward shift of the Republicans over the past decade
Lol read Howie Hawkins' platform
No, it fucking isn't. It's massive to take Congressional seats and force a party to court you and caucus with them. It drives what the party platform is, which have massively changed over the years a shitload of times. Whole ideological flips have happened cause of this shit. Learn some fucking history
too bad the libertarian party and green party are both shit and the latter directly helped Trump get elected
Umm, their platform right now is fucking amazing
Are you incapable of reading? All of the data suggests otherwise
by all the data you mean 1300 people
Do you understand how statistics work? So you realize that each article cited multiple different polls?
Insom is by far the dumbest motherfucker on a forum with refpsi and numeta. It's astounding
the yougov poll was 1300 people and I’m not taking something called “vostok conspiracy blog” seriously
It's like hbotz all over again with his inability to read and comprehend information. Exactly the same way hbotz would speak authoritatively on shit he had no understanding of.
And every other poll? Do you understand 1300 is extremely statistically significant and exit polls with far less of a sample size are almost always extremely close to actual results?
you’re screeching about inconclusive data as if it proves your point when it doesn’t, all it does is SUGGEST that MAYBE a certain chunk of Stein voters would have voted Trump
that’s it
meanwhile there’s literal evidence of her taking meetings in Moscow and Russian cyber trolls encouraging people to vote for her
intentionally or not those people helped get Trump elected, maybe some of them are okay with that but I really doubt it’s that many