• abbotsbury@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Demonstrably untrue, splitting the vote always helps the other party despite casting no additional votes for their candidate.

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      8 months ago

      splitting the vote

      the narrative of vote splitting presumes i would ever vote for your candidate. i wouldn’t. if any splitting is happening, it’s that you won’t vote for my candidate, and when i phrase it like that you will see how silly it is.

      only a vote for a candidate helps that candidate. a vote for any candidate is a vote against all other candidates.

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        8 months ago

        a vote for any candidate is a vote against all other candidates.

        That is simply not the political reality we find ourselves in.