@gwm @benroyce @WAHa_06x36 @baconandcoconut

"Duverger presents the example of an election in which 100,000 moderate voters and 80,000 radical voters are to vote for candidates for a single seat or office. If two moderate parties ran candidates and one radical candidate ran (and every voter voted), the radical candidate would tend to win unless one of the moderate candidates gathered fewer than 20,000 votes."

The US didn't get a 2nd round of orange cheato 2020 because people got their shit together and did not repeat the mistake of voting 3rd party in 2016 (in which 3rd parties trippled and quadrupled in comparison to previous elections).

2016 had a turnout of 6% voting 3rd party, whereas 2020 had 2% voting 3rd party.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/06/30/behind-bidens-2020-victory/