Talk:Seddie/@comment-14284535-20160607213142/@comment-3247345-20160609182317

The problem with getting it thrown into the House is that the third parties that have a chance at making it into the electoral college would only draw votes from one of the majors parties in significant numbers, which would probably only benefit the major party that didn't have its votes siphoned off by that party, making a non majority unlikely. Add that to the fact that in states where the third party didn't do well enough to get the electoral votes that state was far more likely to go to the party that didn't have its votes siphoned off it would be very hard to prevent either major party from gaining a majority. We saw this in 2000 and when Nader drew enough votes away from Gore to hand the election to Bush, despite not winning any electoral votes.

The only way this could be avoided is if a third party siphoned away votes from both parties in relatively equal numbers. I don't see that happening. The Green Party would attract Democrats and the Constitution Party would attract Republicans. The Libertarian Party has the best chance at breaking this pattern since it has positions that attract both Republicans and Democrats but I suspect it would mostly draw Republicans. People care about the economy the most and their economic philosophy aligns most with the Republicans. The rhetoric also aligns best with the Republicans. Small government, individualism, etc. I just can't see them drawing Democrats in large enough numbers to avoid the problem I described above.