Jill Stein fires back at Liz Warren

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100. But most of those places have power-sharing in their administrations

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The system here is pretty much winner-take-all. The new president/governor basically gets to organize his own government

The parties that have strong showings but don't take the plurality to win the presidency don't typically get to be part of the government here.

That puts huge importance on winning executive-ships in the US. It penalizes everything except a win. There's nothing much guaranteed about coming in second, third or later.

Consequently, it's exceedingly difficult to convince voters they can 'grow' a small party into something larger.

If you don't get born into being at least a competitive second your new movement is very much handicapped, and can only be approached from -inside- another party.

And we see that from-the-inside thing has happened to the tea-party movement and it's the path Sanders has chosen rather than trying to build something from scratch