Democracy in crisis: The two-party problem
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Vote for Your Party, Right?
In 20 17, there is a special election in montana where the house candidate, the republican house candidate, gregg gian forte, assaulted a journalist. A political scientist named milans volek and his cathor matthew graham looked at local level election returns to see if that event caused people to change the way they voted. Gan forte's behaviour didn't hurt him among republicans. He did win that election by the wa nes montana. That, to them, illustrates the point they illustrate with survey data and other things,. which is basically the one that you were just making.
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