Post #1296713
2026-04-09 17:06 UTC
Which makes it all the more important for candidate not to pull a Harris and try to gaslight voters.
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@MrSmiley@lemmy.zip 2026-04-09 18:16
> When parties are roughly evenly matched, elections often turn on irrelevant or misleading considerations such as economic spurts or downturns beyond the incumbents’ control; the outcomes are essentially random. Thus, voters do not control the course of public policy, even indirectly. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691169446/democracy-for-realists