Kayne West the new Jill Stein

[brettdale]

Will he take votes away from Biden?

[RandySF]

1. Doesn't he have an album coming out Tuesday?

[obamanut2012]

2. yes

[betsuni]

3. No.

[JI7]

4. I don't know why people give so much attention to KW

Most people already think he is a joke when it comes to politics because of his support for Trump.

[Mike Nelson]

5. I think...

... he's promoting himself. Many of these people are only in it for the money. Ann Coulter occasionally makes noise, still... they crave attention and will say anything to get noticed... and, of course, they hope the Attention leads to Money.

[UTUSN]

6. K&R

[beachbumbob]

7. he already missed deadlines in many states to get on the ballot and will miss more

this is way less of an issue even with RNC and Putin money coming in to help

[Indykatie]

8. Does Kanye Know States Have Signature Requirements to Get on the Ballot?

These can range from 5000 to 100,000+. He'd only be a danger in the Swing states where the race is expected to be close. Some deadlines have passed and others have July Deadlines. Unless he and the Trump campaign has already started collecting signatures (which I doubt) he won't be able to get on several Swing state ballots.

[Initech]

45. This is the Trump era, rules don't matter and facts and logic take a holiday.

[Rebl2]

9. I also

heard he hasn’t filed paperwork to run for president. I think he would take votes from trump since he’s a fan of him, not the Democrats. This is some kind of stunt to get attention I believe.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Best to ignore him, not give his disruption any oxygen. . . nt

[RhodeIslandOne]

11. He's a fucking idiot like Jill

I'm sure when they tell him he can't be on the ballot because he did no work he'll scream racism and his even dumber wife will cry about it. Fuck both of them.

[obamanut2012]

12. KIm Kardashian isn't the least but "dumb"

She is very, very smart and very savvy, and apparently is a Democrat. Which makes this all worse.

[Squinch]

13. I hope most people are sick to death of this assholery. Sick to death being almost a literal term.

[dustyscamp]

14. I think the spoiler for this round is going to be Jo Jorgensen

[tulipsandroses]

15. No

Kanye may have a lot of music fans. But he will not have a lot of fans that want him to be president. There is a difference.

[samnsara]

16. i have never figured out who the eff kanye west is...

[Hortensis]

20. :) A sign of intelligence. Those who swallow him whole

are variations on those who soak up Bill Maher's, or Trump's, offerings as wisdom. West's conflicted and resentful, someone who could spouting high-sound rhetoric that passes for profundity and not so secretly long to be able to just come out for Trump against Democrats.

[Hortensis]

17. West's a vote waster for those looking for a way to vote

against Democrats, aside from not voting at all or going full-spite for Republicans. And he'll pick up a few votes from those who decide his name sounds coolest on the list in the polling booth.

Some of those will always be with us. But this isn't the election for their numbers to grow. Quite the contrary.

[blogslut]

18. If his name were spelled correctly my word-replacement browser plugin would have read:

Whocares

Please, spell better next time.

[Gothmog]

19. This idiot will not be on the ballot

It takes money and work to get onto the ballot as a third party

Link to tweet

[hlthe2b]

21. What the hell does tha map supposedly represent? No legend, no sourcing...

I see tweets all the time doing that. May as well post a map of Europe.

[Gothmog]

22. There is a legend at the top

The red states are states where deadline have passed or where it is unlikely to qualify.

Link to tweet

/photo/1

[hlthe2b]

25. "Available 375?!" "Passed/Unlikely to Reach 163?!!" What the hell

That is f...ing meaningless.

[Nature Man]

26. Seriously?

[Gothmog]

27. It is a legend and explains the fact that the filing deadline has passed in a number of states

Ballot access is an interesting area of the law. It is not easy to get onto the ballot in the real world. There is actually a treatise on ballot access law. Here is a link to a blog on this topic https://ballot-access.org/ The major political parties are in effect grandfathered and so have until mid September to name their nominees (this is due to mailing deadline for overseas ballots). Third parties have to either received a specified percentage of the vote in the last election or get on the ballot by signatures. This takes a great deal of work and a ton of signatures. For example, the Green Party may not be on the ballot in a number of states due to the difficulty of getting signatures in today's COVID environment

Link to tweet

West will not be on the ballot in most states. I would be surprised if he is on the ballot in any state

[Cha]

35. Wow.. Thank you for that, Gothmog.. Let's hope

it stays so they can't RF Again.

[Gothmog]

37. It is not that easy to get onto the ballot as a third party

I really doubt that West will be on the ballot in any major battleground state

[Cha]

40. There is no third option with so many lives at stake.

Link to tweet

[PTWB]

29. You can look at the map for 3 seconds and figure out

EXACTLY what those numbers mean. I suspect you’re being intentionally stubborn here.

[hlthe2b]

30. I'd flunk any student that failed to label this map better than this, including you.

[PTWB]

31. I'd fire any teacher who was incapable of discerning its meaning.

Including you.

[hlthe2b]

32. Your incivility is off the scale. Unwarranted, but noted.

[PTWB]

33. Incivility?!

I replied to you in exactly the tone you had replied to me! If you don’t like the temperature, you shouldn’t have set the thermostat so high.

[Gothmog]

34. That was my impression also

[Lancero]

39. Add em up and you get 538.

Does someone need to explain the significance of that number too?

[ooky]

23. This is a door that swings both ways.

If democrats are truly concerned Kayne West could take votes from Biden, they could pay someone to run and take an equivalent number of votes from Trump. I'm sure there are plenty enough gun humpers frustrated enough with Trump and stupid enough to vote for a 3rd party candidate. Someone like "Chuck Norris" or something like that.

[JonLP24]

24. I don't think voters would vote Clinton if Jill Stein wasn't on the ballot

You have to be really disillusioned with the party to even vote third party in the first place.

[Cha]

42. Stein Lied.. they were Brainwashed by Stein's LIES.. Lying

that trump and Hillary were the same.

Stein has trump Blood on her hands.

[Baltimike]

28. YAS!!!! nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

36. 2018 poll: West far more popular with Trump supporters than with others

May 2018; overall 23% had a favorable opinion of him, 53% unfavorable. Among those who approved of Trump, that was 40% approve, 34% disapprove; among those who disapproved of Trump, it was 9% favorable, 70% unfavorable.

http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2018/images/05/11/rel5x.-.kanye.west.pdf

[LisaL]

38. I believe he did nothing to even get on a ballot.

[backscatter712]

41. He jumped in so late he'll be lucky to get on the ballot in more than three states.

Besides, given all the pictures and videos of Kanye wearing that stupid MAGAt hat, I seriously doubt he's gonna get any Democrats.

[madinmaryland]

43. He may get the 12 black trump supporters. Other than that... crickets

[cwydro]

44. What was it President Obama said about him?

"Kanye is an asshole."