Post by Logan on Jun 13, 2016 19:48:40 GMT -6
The most unusual general election races in Texas are the competitive ones, and in those, third-party candidates can have an outsize influence.
But in a bizarre turn of fate, the most reliable source of third-party candidates — the Libertarian Party of Texas — didn't field contestants in most of the state’s few remaining swing districts.
It’s always hard to tell which party that might help, but the folklore in Texas — i.e., what many politicians and consultants will tell you — is that votes for Libertarian candidates come disproportionately out of the Republican column.
Since 2002, at least a dozen congressional and legislative seats in the state have flipped from one party to another after races that included third-party candidates.
Read more: www.texastribune.org/2016/06/13/analysis-accidental-libertarian-power-outage-texas/
But in a bizarre turn of fate, the most reliable source of third-party candidates — the Libertarian Party of Texas — didn't field contestants in most of the state’s few remaining swing districts.
It’s always hard to tell which party that might help, but the folklore in Texas — i.e., what many politicians and consultants will tell you — is that votes for Libertarian candidates come disproportionately out of the Republican column.
Since 2002, at least a dozen congressional and legislative seats in the state have flipped from one party to another after races that included third-party candidates.
Read more: www.texastribune.org/2016/06/13/analysis-accidental-libertarian-power-outage-texas/