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Also dangerous unless we get rid of the Electoral College. If a third party candidate got enough votes in the Electoral College, it sets up a scenario where no one gets to 270 electoral votes. That means the House of Representatives decides who the president is.
Now, let's say Gary Johnson and/or Jill Stein both got enough votes in the electoral college to prevent Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump from reaching 270.
Now let's say in that scenario that Hillary Clinton got the most amount of votes in the electoral college. 250 votes, perhaps. That means more people/states voted for Clinton than voted for any other candidate.
The House of Representatives is controlled by Republicans. Do you really think they're going to vote for Hillary, the person who got more votes?
Hillary gets the most votes. Donald becomes president.
The electoral college has gotta go if you want to be serious about third parties.
I feel stupid for not knowing that would happen in that case, and at the same time extraordinarily alarmed.
The product of the Founding Father's good intentions for helping the uneducated electorate vote, retained by political apathy in the masses. Do we really not care enough as a people to let this sort of anti-democratic institution slide in the modern day? Jeez.