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In reply to the discussion: Can we stop with the outrage at non and 3rd party.. [View all]BumRushDaShow
(128,702 posts)I disagree and we should be putting EVERYTHING on the table to "discuss" because one little thing "here" (voter suppression) and another little thing "there" (social media campaign), and another over yonder (3rd party votes), each by themselves may not be enough to trigger suspicion about a potential steal unless you delve deeper, which most people won't do.
Here in my city - Philadelphia - for the first time (based on my immediate available stats), 3rd party votes were TRIPLE what they were in previous Presidential elections going back to 2004. I.e., out of some 600,000+ - 700,000+ votes each Presidential election, 3rd parties only got no more than 5000 votes. EXCEPT 2016, when there were almost 15,000 of them. THAT is a red flag.
This year may have been a "one off" for that type of thing but note that PA hadn't voted for a GOP President since 1988 and the margin of victory for Drumpf here in PA was only 44,292.
The total 3rd party vote for the state in 2016 was 218,228.
In 2012, the total PA 3rd party was only 71,332. In 2008, total PA 3rd party was 62,889. In 2004, total PA 3rd party was 33,822.
So there is a BIG red flag here regarding what happened in 2016 and 3rd party votes - literally TRIPLE the previous Presidential election (both at the state and local Philadelphia election level).