Well, there’s states that have complex rules designed to keep third parties out of lower levels unless the party has already done well in federal elections, and funding is also related to voting for higher offices, too. So you weren’t “wasting your vote” even though Nader did not win.
The good news is that Greens and other third parties are being elected to local offices. They’re definitely on an uptick. A lot of us fear, though, that the huge influx of new Democratic candidates is taking votes from Greens and Socialists rather than from the Trumpers.
I dunno either. I can see no way to accurately predict the eventual outcomes, and I correctly called the 2016 election many months in advance right here on BBS. All I know for sure is that voting for a Green candidate that loses is always a far more meaningful act than voting for a major party candidate that loses, and in most cases it’s better than voting for the winner.
