Sometimes Things Break and They Don't Get Fixed

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8. Shit. I wish people clearly understood what a spoiler candidate is.

God bless Ross Perot for making sure that GHWB and then Bob Dole didn't get enough votes to prevent two terms of Bill Clinton. Unfortunately, Ralph Nader interfered in 2000 making sure some of the Democratic votes that would have gone to Al Gore were siphoned off. That allowed bush/cheney to steal the White House. And in 2016 - well, I've already said plenty about 2016. Let's just say it's fair to include that campaign year here. And I'm old enough to remember when John Anderson ran as an independent, messing things up for Jimmy Carter against Ronald Reagan.

Anderson started out strong, polling especially well on college campuses and among other voters looking for an alternative to Carter, the unpopular Democratic incumbent, and his conservative challenger, Reagan.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/05/568489924/john-anderson-independent-for-president-in-1980-dies-at-95

I WISH we could get past that third-party crap, at least on our side of the aisle. Should only afflict the GOP, and splinter THEM by Election Day, and not us.