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BWdem4life

(3,091 posts)
Sun Aug 17, 2025, 12:51 AM Aug 2025

I get tired of the same old thing

from this poster and others.

Exactly how many DUers do they think voted for Jill Stein in 2016? Out of that number, given that there was a big purge / exodus once Hillary secured the nomination, how many are still here? Any?

And if they got their long-awaited apology, what would that change?

So, I say: Please call the wahmbulance for them.

DU should be focused on the future, not the past.

P.S. Since we appear to be, once again, reliving the past, here's an excerpt from a post-election article from that time period:

Time to blame those idealistic third-party voters? Not quite. Obviously, not all Stein and Johnson voters were disaffected Democrats — some would have voted for Trump, written in candidates, or not voted at all.

This is very different from Florida in 2000, where only a small fraction of Florida voters for Nader — about half of a percent — would have needed to vote Gore to give Gore the election.

And that’s what exit polling that asked people how they would have voted in a two-party race — with the third option of not voting — finds. Under that scenario she would have won Michigan, still lost Florida, and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania would have been a 48 to 48 percent toss-up. Clinton would have needed to win both of those states to reach 270 electoral votes. So even in the artificial world of that exit poll that erased Stein and Johnson, Clinton seemed likely to lose.


https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/11/13576798/jill-stein-third-party-donald-trump-win

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