“How’s the Democratic Party’s ground game in Pennsylvania?” I asked a friend several weeks before the 2024 presidential election. He replied optimistically that there were far more door knockers this year than in 2022.
It turned out these door knockers were just urging a vote for the Democrats without putting forth a compelling agenda attached to candidate commitments on issues that mean something to people where they live, work, and raise their families. There was no Democratic Party “Compact for the American People.” Then-President Joe Biden visited Pennsylvania, which went Republican, many times, with his most memorable message being that he grew up in Scranton.
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Their aversion to building their own momentum to answer the basic questions “Whose side are you on?” and “What does the Democratic Party stand for?” remains as pathetic as it was in 2022 and 2024.
Realistically the voting system in each state needs to be changed, otherwise it’s a bit of a moot point to vote third party in many instances.
The thing it’s definitely something achievable to change the system. Alaska and Maine both have Ranked Choice voting. NYC has Ranked Choice voting as well. If groups supporting ranked choice voting, like the Equal Vote Coalition or FairVote, get more support then it becomes more than just a pipe dream, and third parties will have a legitimate chance to win without having the spoiler effect being major disincentive.