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Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party by bobthepanda on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @04:31PM (#28778058)
If you run a third party that is appealing enough, you can certainly have a go at it. I just have literally never seen, I don't know, the Green Party put up a candidate for local city elections.

It's not like party establishments haven't had candidates lose despite all odds. And Independents have had good streaks at lower offices (e.g. Bernie Sanders, Michael Bloomberg)

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Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party by alxndr on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @07:25PM (#28779777)
Depends where you are: In the recent California governor recall, there were two Green Party candidates and one Libertarian.
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Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party by detaro on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @07:32PM (#28779825)
Governor is already a bit high-level to really have a chance at breaking through, isn't it? Or am I misunderstanding what you mean?
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Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party by alxndr on Thursday October 07, 2021 @12:56PM (#28789027)
Was responding to the idea that the Green party doesn't put up candidates for local elections... I think I've seen them on smaller races than Governor as well, but this was a recent example that came to mind easily.
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Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party by bobthepanda on Thursday October 07, 2021 @01:43PM (#28789711)
Just curious, but how strong are those campaigns actually? Do they do the door-knocking, the ads, and the voter registration?
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Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party by alxndr on Thursday October 07, 2021 @08:25PM (#28794017)
Not in my experience.
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