Is it more harmful to have a third party run when it makes democracy mathematically impossible? Post #793402 • Liberal Forum

Vegas » 14 Jun 2026, 11:40 am » wrote: ↑
14 Jun 2026, 11:40 am
Some simple math that even @Blackvegetable might understand...well I doubt he will, but the rest of you can get it.

Assume we have three candidates that won the following percentage of votes:

Candidate A: 32%
Candidate B: 30%
Candidate C: 38%

So candidate C wins. But 32% + 30% = 62%. So that means 62% of society didn't want candidate C and only 38% did. That doesn't seem much like a majority rules outcome. Though I understand we don't have a pure democracy, we have a republic. Be that as it may, even as a republic and with an electoral college, the mathematical outcome will always be the same.

I guess no electoral system is perfect.

interesting statistics on 3rd party candidates and the percentages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_t ... _elections

I gave SouthernFried my address and the coward didn't dare to show up. He knows better.

He never served, stolen valor.

fried I live rent free in your mind. You got banned from democraticunderground, YES you did

SouthernFried, clean your daddies tool, it has your excrement smeared all over it