The Working Families Party received its lowest share of the vote in gubernatorial elections last month since 1998. In Connecticut, where it has only been participating in gubernatorial elections starting in 2010, it was outpolled by the Independent Party, and so drops to fourth line on the ballot. Its three showings in Connecticut for Governor have been: 2010 2.30%; 2014 2.27%; 2018 1.27%. All three times it nominated the candidate who was also the Democratic nominee.
In New York, its gubernatorial percentages have been: 1998 1.08%; 2002 1.98%; 2006 3.50%; 2010 3.33%; 2014 3.31%; 2018 1.83%. All six times, it nominated the candidate who was also the Democratic nominee. The 2018 percentage is still unofficial; New York hasn’t posted its official returns yet.
In 2018, the only other Working Families gubernatorial nominee was in Oregon, where the party also nominated the Democratic nominee. In Oregon, the ballot does not let voters choose which party to support in fusion races; there is only a single square on the ballot so the Democratic vote can’t be separated out from the Working Families vote.
It is just an arm of the Democrats.
Perhaps if they had their own nominee instead of being a puppet party, people would take them seriously.
Did the so-called elections in the olde USSR regime have any puppet party candidates for entertainment ???
They run their own candidates in extreme left wing cities with guaranteed minority representation in order to shut the Republicans out.
What this says is that even alternative parties that put an establishment party candidate on their ballot line did badly this year. High turnout, meaning more poorly informed voters, and hyper-partisanship worked against all alternative candidates.
What really killed the WFP in NY was the fact that they had Cynthia Nixon on their line, but then a month before the election they kicked her off and went with corrupt Cuomo. They turned their back on their progressive base.
PR – partisan/independent legis >>> LAWS
AppV – NONPARTISAN exec/judic >>> LAWS enforcement