(01-15-2019, 02:27 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(01-15-2019, 02:07 PM)mikesez Wrote: Until the Constitution is amended, your path to the white house starts by winning a plurality of the votes in one state.
Each of the two big parties unveils their candidates slowly in a way that gets all 50 states to see their candidates as legitimate, not a wasted vote.  
The good news is you don't have to follow that recipe.  
You can blow up that system!
Simply get the members of your party to pledge to support, not a libertarian candidate necessarily, but the Rep or Dem candidate that Libertarian party leadership tells them to support.
Then make it known that the libertarian party will support whoever is going to help blow up the electoral college system sufficiently to allow a third party to enter.  Watch major party candidates in close races line up to take that pledge.

Funny how other 3rd parties were able to come to power without promising the destruction of our federal election system...

The last time a "third party" came to power was 1860. That was a four-way race and only one of the four tried to win in every state.  None of them were on the ballot in all states.  The stark political differences that motivated Presidential candidates to not even try in half of the states corresponded to secession and civil war.  An unusual circumstance that no one should want to repeat.

Consider the closest third party candidates have gotten since: 1912, 1948, 1968, 1980, 1992... if it was likely to happen spontaneously it would have happened one of those five times.

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