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* Yet again, Americans didn't even consider the third party. They aren't even allowed to debate.


> Yet again, Americans didn't even consider the third party.

The presidential third party vote more than doubled this election compared to 4 years ago.

> They aren't even allowed to debate.

Ron Paul begs to differ.

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The challenge, of course, is the the system is susceptible to the spoiler effect. Trump won Florida's 29 electoral votes by just 1%. Gary Johnson alone had double that number in the state.

In 2000, the entire election was decided by 537 votes for George Bush in Florida. And the majority of Ralph Nader's 97k votes in the state would have gone to Al Gore in a two-party race. The Green Party lost the Democrats 4+ years of the presidency.




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