Politics: No Labels’ Weird Quest

There is a political group in the US now that is doing something weird. It is claims that the major third party candidates in the 2016 election are how Trump won and Clinton lost. It then goes on to say that the lack of major third party candidates in the 2020 election are how Biden won and Trump lost. It now feels that the best way to ensure that Trump doesn’t win again in 2024 is by… running a third party candidate. Say, what?

 

I don’t know how much, if any, legit traction this group will get. I’ll have to say that it is weird that enough people are already worried about it, even though it doesn’t seem to have a major impact at all just yet, if it will at all.

 

I’m not convinced that third party candidates are the answer nor that we need them in the 2024 presidential election. There are too many unknowns at the time that we don’t really need yet another one affecting things. But I think that we’ve been hearing about a supposed major third party for a while now that I don’t believe that one will happen now or any time soon.

 

Think about it: the last majory third party candidate in a presidential race was in 1992. It was notable because this person was at one point polling about either of the major party candidates. But then he shot himself in the foot by dropping out of the race at one point. While he got back into it later, by then, the damage that he did to himself was done and he didn’t win a single state in the Electoral College. As for how long it has been since a third party candidate even won a state there, that has been far too long ago to even matter.

 

While I don’t know for sure if this group has any chances of influencing the election in a good or bad way for the country, I don’t think that we should worry about them this yet as it seems like there were too many potential candidates for this party and picking people who should have just been on one side (liberal or conservative) isn’t going to do themselves any good, especially if you mix and match by escentially picking one candidate from each party for one ticket.