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Jakyl25 posted...

Also foolmos logic is important down ballot as well, possibly even more so

But this isn't how it has played out in practice. Seats end up going uncontested. The Democratic party has even lost a bunch of seats over the past decade to Rs or progressive challengers from within the party, because they just have straight up been ignoring local politics. But third parties have failed to capitalize on this (in hindsight) obvious weakness.

Also Foolmo seems to be approaching this from the truly bizarre perspective that both the Libertarian and Green parties are preferable to both of the major parties, but I'm extremely unlikely to vote for any conservative over even a centrist Dem.

I actually did vote for a Green candidate this election, for railroad commissioner, but it's a weird one because it's hard to get anyone to care about these beurocratic positions AND YET this is something I think the Greens are uniquely positioned to sell themselves on being better than the other parties. But I don't ever hear about it.

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