[EM] Successful third parties

[robert bristow-johnson]

I grew up 20 miles west of Fargo, but the local news was both sides of the Red River.

Ever since I had been on this planet, it's been the "DFL".  What do you think the "D" is for?  It *was* a third party, separate from the Democrats,  long ago, but not now.

The Vermont Progressive Party is existing now.  As a separate party with a separate ballot on Primary Day in August.  There are issues (that I don't like).  Too many Progs are running as fusion candidates and they don't even run in their own party primary.  Then the Prog voters cross over and take a Democrat ballot and vote.  Sometimes the Prog displaces the incumbent Dem with this strategy because Progs cross over and GOP don't (they vote in their own primary).  But the Dem would win against the Prog in the general, but the Dem got primary'd.

> On 03/20/2024 11:41 PM EDT KenB <kdbearman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Other issues aside, anyone who knows about Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Party knows your Progressive Party is a poor second at best. "At its height in the 1920s and 1930s, FLP members included three Minnesota governors, four United States senators, eight United States representatives and a majority in the Minnesota legislature." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Farmer%E2%80%93Labor_Party
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> On 3/20/2024 3:19 PM, robert bristow-johnson wrote in the topic "No. Condorcet and Hare do not share the same problem with computational complexity and process transparency.":
> > the Vermont Progressive Party, the most successful third party in the United States (if you measure success by getting people elected).
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