Posted on 08/09/2015 1:13:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Splitting the vote is sometimes deliberate. I think Perot deliberately came back into the race to split the vote, allowing a Clinton win. In 1912 the banksters persuaded Teddy Roosevelt to run as a third party - banksters reason was to see that Woodrow Wilson would win. Got us the Fed...
Yes, the voters vote, but there are manipulative ways to change outcomes.
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