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  • @aidanM
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    -131 year ago

    Spoiler candidate when not voting for one of thr two preferred oligarchs is kind of a degrading term. Perot didn’t spoil the Bush campaign- and the Libertarian party, that gets more votes than the Green, draws mostly from “would-be Republicans”

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        did you even read your own link??

        A 1999 study in the American Journal of Political Science estimated that Perot’s candidacy hurt the Clinton campaign, reducing “Clinton’s margin of victory over Bush by seven percentage points.”[117] In 2016, FiveThirtyEight described the speculation that Perot was a spoiler as “unlikely”

        • @SCB
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          11 year ago

          And yet what everyone remembers is “No New Taxes” which is why an incumbent should never be in a debate

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            to be clear, you proved yourself wrong and are still insisting you were right by shifting the goalposts.

            • @SCB
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              01 year ago

              Not remotely, as my quote clearly indicates

      • @aidanM
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        -81 year ago

        The Bush campaign put forward a worse candidate and lost. It was a more competitive and better election cycle.

        • @SCB
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          61 year ago

          Bush was an incumbent President lol

          • @aidanM
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            1 year ago

            So was Carter, and Ford, and Trump

            • @SCB
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              61 year ago

              Well, in all fairness, literally no one voted for Ford.

    • EnderWi99in
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      71 year ago

      You’re talking like I’m not actually a fan of Biden. I am. The problem with West is his ticket is literally being paid for by the right. So yes, in this case, he is very much a spoiler candidate.

      • @aidanM
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        11 year ago

        No I’m criticizing calling people who vote for the candidate they support a “spoiler”

        • @CoggyMcFee
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          1 year ago

          You weren’t called a spoiler. The candidate is a spoiler candidate.

          • @aidanM
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            01 year ago

            Equally a candidate advocating what they believe is called a spoiler

      • @[email protected]
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        -11 year ago

        the irony of you choosing “ender wiggin” as a moniker. i just hope you wake up before you pull the trigger on a genocide.

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    • @Astroturfed
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      -121 year ago

      Shhhh, you have to buy into the if you don’t vote the way I vote your the problem narrative both sides live off of.