Legit question for understanding...

We need a third party ...but they never seem to get off the ground...

It's the same thing everytime ...nothing changes for the better and we just just keep chasing our tails . Migrants are not our biggest problem ...there are bigger things going on here .

The two party system is designed to have checks and balances. That doesn’t mean there aren’t inherent flaws. But, in presidential election, the sum of a few minority candidates’ votes doesn’t equal a majority either. It just means there’s a lack of conviction amongst voters. That would be less true in the House of Representatives.

Also, a “majority” is somewhat misconstrued in a US election as it’s the Electoral College that determines a winner. In that system, except for Maine and Nebraska, it’s a winner take all system - a race to 270 votes (of 538). The 538 mirrors the structure of House, 435 Representatives, and the Senate, 100 Senators. The 3 additional electoral votes are for DC, which isn’t a state. So, it’s not the sum of individual’s votes tabulated for the nation to see who wins. It’s the sum of individual votes in a state that gives the state to a candidate who then strives to hit the goal of 270.

I didn't feel like I wanted to support either. It seems like past few years a big part of the voting base in the US has not really voted 'for' anyone, but almost always 'against' someone else.

We really need more political parties. Maybe with some sort of tiered elections so that unless someone gets 70+%, the lowest two results are dropped and another vote happens.

Something different anyway

I feel like these type of questions and concerns come from the side that lost.

You're not wrong. But lamenting about it after your side lost is not the way to affect change.

You mention 3rd party candidates. You belong to any 3rd parties? You advocate for them? Support them? Sign up, go to the meetings, go out and knock on doors for them? If not, how do you expect them to be a force in politics?

This isn't something you pine about after bitter loss. It's a calling. It requires people to be serious about it and spend years getting this off the ground.

What seems to happen is the moment a legitimate 3rd party crops up, it gets subsumed into one of the 2 major parties.

I don't understand the way it's done, Hillary Clinton won by amounts of votes, but Trump won in the correct states.. Anyhue it makes no sense to me

We only have one party. They run everything. We only have the illusion of choice.

I'm very very much for ranked choice voting. I think we need to do away with the two party system and with the electoral college.

I believe the winner should be president and the runner up should be vice President.

I didn’t hear this after Bill Clinton on the Electoral vote but not the popular votes not only once but twice

You guys absolutely need more choices!

We need to have rank-choice voting. Without that, we'll only ever have two choices in the general elections.