The Weakness of Weirdness

Politics is often about the messenger, not the message. Should third-parties be worried that non-traditional candidates like Vermin Supreme tank their chances of electoral success?

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It’s a sad truth that politics is often more about personality than policy. Particularly in an era of partisan-based tribalism, there’s a greater perceived political reward in emotional victories than in intellectual ones: a point-for-point…