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In reply to the discussion: Neither Jill Stein Nor Susan Sarandon Lost 2016 For Clinton. Trump Switchers Did [View all]mcar
(46,059 posts)30. More people voted for Stein in the 3 states
that gave Trump the win.
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Neither Jill Stein Nor Susan Sarandon Lost 2016 For Clinton. Trump Switchers Did [View all]
wellst0nev0ter
Sep 2021
OP
Neither of the women but the voters they influenced with their stupid and callous.
LizBeth
Sep 2021
#2
Concerning "Trump switcher" general election voters (mentioned by the OP), there's this as well:
lapucelle
Sep 2021
#88
I don't think that boring Gary Johnson had anywhere near the impact the "Trump switcher" voters did.
lapucelle
Sep 2021
#111
That's simply not true. Jill Stein's votes in swing states lost us the election.
yardwork
Sep 2021
#7
Obama's "supermajority": filibuster-proof 60 votes in the Senate lasted four months and ten days.
betsuni
Sep 2021
#9
This is the same inside the box thinking that I no longer have patience for
wellst0nev0ter
Sep 2021
#25
Will you be Primarying President Biden in 2024 with a candidate who supports your lofty goals?
brooklynite
Sep 2021
#12
Me and the rest of the Dems busted our asses in 2020 getting him and the Democratic majority elected
wellst0nev0ter
Sep 2021
#26
Here are how Senators have voted w/respect to Biden's agenda since he took office...
George II
Sep 2021
#102
True. Anyone who listened to those two hairbrained Trump supporters was already beyond hope.
NNadir
Sep 2021
#13
Hillary: "We always knew that the industrial Midwest was crucial to our success, just as it had
betsuni
Sep 2021
#27
She complains that she and Tim Kaine made a 635-mile trip around Ohio and Pennsylvania
betsuni
Sep 2021
#42
Thanks for posting this...I have heard this sort of thing repeatedly. It was never true.
Demsrule86
Sep 2021
#116
No it would not, the race was lost in the rustbelt where the Russian princess Stein and her
Demsrule86
Sep 2021
#84
Right...why they changed our Republic by helping elect Trump...oh wait I meant destroyed our
Demsrule86
Sep 2021
#85
I do remember your posts during 16 presidential election...You disliked Hillary Clinton.
Demsrule86
Sep 2021
#86
Thank you. I guess any spin is better than admitting our futures depend on finding a better way.
Doremus
Sep 2021
#36
Susan Sarandon has 745,000 followers on Twitter. If just 5% of them switched to trump instead....
George II
Sep 2021
#20
Politico 2 years "after the fact" in 2018? So how did that help flip the 2016 Presidential election?
George II
Sep 2021
#38
Suddenly a famous person everybody knows from movies and her corporate ads for products
betsuni
Sep 2021
#51
That photo is a treasure, definitely one for the history books. She & Putin look so smug...
Hekate
Sep 2021
#115
Again the premise of this thread is simply false -do you ever tire of being wrong?
LetMyPeopleVote
Sep 2021
#62
"Trump switcher" (OP's term) GE votes exceeded the margin of victory in three swing states.
lapucelle
Sep 2021
#89
And Stein Contributed to it all by joining Michael Flynn and other Trashy Whores in attacking
JI7
Sep 2021
#50
Once again I thank you for sharing your invaluable eyewitness account. It is pathetic...
Hekate
Sep 2021
#119
Black voter turnout fell in 2016, even as a record number of Americans cast ballots
Celerity
Sep 2021
#41
"An important explanation for the drop in African American turn-out had to do with Obama and
betsuni
Sep 2021
#56
She did not call black youth super predators while advocating for the 1994 crime bill.
betsuni
Sep 2021
#69
she was defending the crime bill in 1996, I never said she said it in 1994, I never mentioned 1994
Celerity
Sep 2021
#72
so now it is on to whataboutism games (and with wilfully clipped quotes to boot)
Celerity
Sep 2021
#75
Thank you. I am so tired of the constant whine about those irrelevant has-beens.
lagomorph777
Sep 2021
#46
No, the failures are with Sarandon who said Clinton is worse than Trump even AFTER Trump
JI7
Sep 2021
#52
I'd like to know why Edwards' IWR vote didn't make him a warmongering monster but Hillary's did.
betsuni
Sep 2021
#58
I was disgusted by some Sanders and Stein voters gloating-pointing/laughing-holier-than-thouness...
tenderfoot
Sep 2021
#57
Do you tire of being wrong? Bernie Sanders Voters Helped Trump Win and Here's Proof
LetMyPeopleVote
Sep 2021
#59
If teh ebil Sarandon has so much power, maybe people should tread lightly when invoking her name
Hassin Bin Sober
Sep 2021
#63
showing the world who she is and what she did will eliminate any power she had over the gullible.
Demsrule86
Sep 2021
#126
Thank God this former Democrat is not going to the House. I live in her district. We worked
Demsrule86
Sep 2021
#117
Turner, Moore, Sarandon, West, others like them, AND their apologists/defenders...
NurseJackie
Sep 2021
#120
There is evidence that "Trump switcher" (your term) GE votes exceeded the margin of victory
lapucelle
Sep 2021
#87
As if their was ever any doubt. All the ridiculous denials and shifting of blame reminds me of...
NurseJackie
Sep 2021
#91
Folks watched in real time as Bri Grey tred to erase history on twitter yesterday.
lapucelle
Sep 2021
#93
Yeah, I saw this. I hope she is finished in politics and takes her show somewhere else...when
Demsrule86
Sep 2021
#118
"Extrapolating ratios" without including numbers is an essentially meaningless exercise,
lapucelle
Sep 2021
#96
Stein's total number of votes exceeded TFG's margin of victory in Wisconsin,
Roisin Ni Fiachra
Sep 2021
#98
Everyone eligible to vote in 2016 who did not vote for Hillary Clinton bears an equal portion ...
dawg
Sep 2021
#99
Anyone who encouraged you to vote 3rd party instead of for the Dem is RESPONSIBLE for this mess!
LetMyPeopleVote
Sep 2021
#109
Not campaigning the final month in states that she thought she had in the bag was a major reason too
Polybius
Sep 2021
#132
I think the problem is too many take the party for granted and are disloyal...and maybe
Demsrule86
Sep 2021
#140
I am a Democrat and always work to elect Democrats and to register more Democrats.
Demsrule86
Sep 2021
#146
Anyone who wants to be a Democrat can be...it was our revolution who had loyalty
Demsrule86
Sep 2021
#148
This is a country of 330 million people, about 180 million voters. A Presidential candidate....
George II
Sep 2021
#135
Thank you. I find the idea that Hillary lost because she didn't have more rallies ridiculous.
betsuni
Sep 2021
#137
Biden did not campaign that much but he still won. And what you are saying is a rightie
Demsrule86
Sep 2021
#141
Of course they contributed to her loss.. and trying to cover that mess up with sugar
Peacetrain
Sep 2021
#138
Here is my two cents about 'disaffected voters' that helped Trump win...fuck you and
Demsrule86
Sep 2021
#139
Just reading these posts tells me why the Democrats are always having problems.
marie999
Sep 2021
#150