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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • While the US campaign cycle is more extended than other countries’, even then the people who are going to be the main candidate for their respective parties (party leaders for example) are usually known well in advance and have managed to build up a reputation with their constituents before they even start campaigning. In this situation, you’d have to start way further back.

    I’m not saying it’s the wrong way to go, but everyone should be aware that changing candidate to someone completely new this close to the election absolutely won’t be a cakewalk.


  • There are third parties, they just don’t have any support and the FPTP system is exactly why. If a third party with more leftist ideals form, they’d siphon most of their voters from the Democrats, which means that Republicans would have a bigger bloc and win. So to mitigate the worst result, it is strategically more valuable to vote for the one of the two biggest parties that you hate the least.

    Proportional representation and the popular vote would make it easier for more parties to gain influence and in turn get voters.