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minus-squareEatATaco@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoSo, you don’t understand that the POTUS election is not the entirety of the us political system? I’m not sure what I’m supposed to say here, you quoted two very obviously different things.
minus-squaresub_ubi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·4 months agoThe examples I gave, 17th amendment, women’s suffrage, progressive taxation, were pushed by third party POTUS candidates.
minus-squareEatATaco@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoNone of what you provided says anything about presidential elections.
minus-squaresub_ubi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·4 months agoWould you like me to link the exact candidates and elections?
minus-squareEatATaco@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoYou claimed you provided it, but did not.
minus-squaresub_ubi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-24 months agoI had previously quoted from this study, which is exclusively about POTUS elections, https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691026138/third-parties-in-america And Hick’s quote I believe is from his book the populist revolt, which covers James Weaver’s third party run, https://populismx.commons.gc.cuny.edu/the-populist-revolt/
So, you don’t understand that the POTUS election is not the entirety of the us political system? I’m not sure what I’m supposed to say here, you quoted two very obviously different things.
The examples I gave, 17th amendment, women’s suffrage, progressive taxation, were pushed by third party POTUS candidates.
None of what you provided says anything about presidential elections.
Would you like me to link the exact candidates and elections?
You claimed you provided it, but did not.
I had previously quoted from this study, which is exclusively about POTUS elections, https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691026138/third-parties-in-america
And Hick’s quote I believe is from his book the populist revolt, which covers James Weaver’s third party run, https://populismx.commons.gc.cuny.edu/the-populist-revolt/