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Re:Maine Ranked Choice Voting Initiative Approved by veidr on Monday November 14, 2016 @12:08PM (#12951291)
Sure, the Democrat was the spoiler there. But your characterization of kevlar1818's comment doesn't make sense.

Advocating RCV is the exact opposite of propping up the two party system. And the terminology itself is neutral -- it's only because the American democracy has suffered under (or, as some would now say, outright failed due to) the two party system that you associate "the spoiler effect" with a third party candidate.

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Re:Maine Ranked Choice Voting Initiative Approved by tanderson92 on Monday November 14, 2016 @12:10PM (#12951314)
No, my characterization did make sense because at the time I commented (kevlar1818 has since edited -- read the whole thread), kevlar1818 explicitly blamed an independent candidate for splitting the Democrats' votes, as if they owned them.
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Re:Maine Ranked Choice Voting Initiative Approved by kevlar1818 on Monday November 14, 2016 @02:43PM (#12952604)
Once again, any blame was not intentional. I don't know why you are insisting that I'm an opponent of third parties in elections.
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