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Wow, so surprising they would pick one of the most hotly contested senate races in the country with a vulnerable incumbent Democrat. Total coincidence I’m sure, and not at all an effort to help the Republican.
The green party cares about the environment man.
It’s just that it’s the political environment. Fucking trash.
Well that’s YOUR opinion. Which you totally have a right to. As I have a right to my opinion, which differs from yours.
Funny how your opinion only comes around every 4 years and then Disappears back to russia
Funny how your opinion only comes around every 4 years and then Disappears back to russia
I’m not sure what you mean. I vote in local elections too, so not just every 4 years.
And I have been voting for longer than you have been alive.
And Greens are in other elections besides presidential:
Californians have elected 55 of the 226 office-holding Greens nationwide. Other states with high numbers of Green elected officials include Pennsylvania (31), Wisconsin (23), Massachusetts (18) and Maine (17). Maine has the highest per capita number of Green elected officials in the country and the largest Green registration percentage with more than 29,273 Greens comprising 2.95% of the electorate as of November 2006.[68] Madison, Wisconsin is the city with the most Green elected officials (8), followed by Portland, Maine (7).
Also:
https://montanafreepress.org/2024/08/21/green-party-candidate-files-to-join-u-s-senate-race/
There’s a bit of a history of the Republicans in Montana funding the Green Party to serve as spoilers.
The way first-past-the-post elections work makes this pretty much inevitable.
Let’s look at 3 scenarios:
Scenario 1:
- Tester (D) 1001 votes
- Sheehey (R) 1000 votes
- Green Party: 0 votes
Tester wins
Scenario 2:
- Tester (D) 1000 votes
- Sheehey (R) 1000 votes
- Green Party: 1 vote
Tie between Tester and Sheehey, forcing a special election (Montana rules; other states use games of chance)
Scenario 3:
- Tester (D) 999 votes
- Sheehey (R) 1000 votes
- Green Party: 2 votes
Sheehey wins
This means that voting for a minor third party instead of the Democrat actively harms the ability to elect somebody who is better-aligned with your views.
Vote your heart in the primary. Vote strategically in the general.
Exactly what a Republican would say.
I don’t really know much about that.
For me personally, if I were Republican, I’d say so. And probably vote Trump. But I’m not either of those things.
So were you implying that I personally am a Republican, or just that some republicans may vote Green Party?
You do realize that the majority of my postings are for socialism causes, right? https://lemmy.world/c/socialist
