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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You're right, but voting third-party for presidency and your own states' congressmen are not mutually exclusive. You may vote third-party for both.

Even without a supporting legislative branch, a third-party president may have influence through vetoes alone. Presidential vetoes on bills have historically had high success rates to get congressional bills denied. There is also always the off-chance that something like H.R.5140 gets passed, and a lot of politically relevant seats become available for a third-party president to assign bodies into without question. Not likely, but nothing will ever even have the chance to change if you continue to vote for the primary two parties

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago

I agree with your premises.

But without contesting house and senate seats, we'll...