They kind of do. That is because even though a party is strong nationwide or within a state, there are high chances that their votes will almost be irrelevant because the votes will go to one of the major 2 parties. This system can discourage them from participating.
The correct answer is:
The landlords.
In the account of the harsh existence that he and his family encountered in the one-room tenements of South Chicago, Richard Wright's "The One-Room Kitchenette" refers to the building landlords as “the bosses of the buildings”, who were keeping black people in specific apartments, without any mobility, and developing racially restrictive housing covenants.
An asteroid or comet crashed into earth.