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Third party will never ever happen with the electoral college. Whichever party forms a third party and said third party will both lose 100% of the time.
I think Yang had it right by changing the voting system entirely
Isn’t it funny that even politics is duopoly in the US?
For a third party system, It’s not about losing it’s about making sure those other guys lose.
It about making the guys who you hate least lose, ironically. Voting against the other guy is already baked into FPTP, so if you vote for a 3rd party you're voting against both the main parties. Except the party you hate the most would've already gotten your anti-vote anyway, so really you're just adding an anti-vote to the other party, which is adding a handicap to them that wasn't there before.
Proportional representation is the way to go.
The electoral college has less of an impact than fptp voting IMO. Ranked choice or Star voting would actually allow third party candidates to win local elections at least.