So your argument is that a somewhat popular third party would discourage people to vote in the runoff? Here are the votes for the general and the runoff:
general - 3,935,924 - Chase Oliver got 81,365
runoff - 3,541,877 - vote gap was 99,389
So ~400k people voted in the general that didn’t vote in the runoff, but only ~81k people voted for Chase Oliver, and the gap between the top two candidates in the final election was more than the total votes Chase Oliver got.
I don’t see any kind of causation here. Also, Oliver got fewer votes than the previous Libertarian Senate candidate in both of the two previous elections. He’s nothing special here.
Chase Oliver isn’t part of the problem whatsoever, turnout was fantastic in that election and any issues have to do with the governor.
So your argument is that a somewhat popular third party would discourage people to vote in the runoff? Here are the votes for the general and the runoff:
So ~400k people voted in the general that didn’t vote in the runoff, but only ~81k people voted for Chase Oliver, and the gap between the top two candidates in the final election was more than the total votes Chase Oliver got.
I don’t see any kind of causation here. Also, Oliver got fewer votes than the previous Libertarian Senate candidate in both of the two previous elections. He’s nothing special here.
Chase Oliver isn’t part of the problem whatsoever, turnout was fantastic in that election and any issues have to do with the governor.
OK buddy, enjoy your day.