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BWdem4life

(3,091 posts)
15. I get tired of the same old thing
Sun Aug 17, 2025, 12:51 AM
Aug 2025

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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4 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

they'll never own it Skittles Aug 2025 #1
For those BS-filled individuals, my contempt for them burns hotter than the heat of a millions suns. Oopsie Daisy Aug 2025 #2
I may not be up on the assholes who did it to Kamala Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 #3
I have no respect for the cretin non-voters or third party-voters' decisions to stay home or vote for some crank, but Vogon_Glory Aug 2025 #4
However- according to a YouGov poll womanofthehills Aug 2025 #16
The "conscience" voters crowd will never admit mcar Aug 2025 #5
Or why it was OK to trash Hillary nonstop knowing that this could happen Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 #6
They told us SCOTUS didn't matter mcar Aug 2025 #7
Yeah because there's no way they would ever overturn Roe v Wade anyway Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 #8
Right? mcar Aug 2025 #9
Both Sides people thought it wouldn't matter. betsuni Aug 2025 #11
Doesn't help to blame "coalition partners" thought crime Aug 2025 #10
Climate change may take some Kaleva Aug 2025 #12
... BWdem4life Aug 2025 #13
Eh? mr715 Aug 2025 #14
I get tired of the same old thing BWdem4life Aug 2025 #15
I understand your position and appreciate your perspective nt mr715 Aug 2025 #21
The good thing about folks like that is it reminds us we have the jury ignore list Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 #19
I should add I guess if I knew in my gut that I knew I was responsible Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 #20
I blame the 'PUMA' racists. RandiFan1290 Aug 2025 #17
Still extremely damaging: the strongly worded lie that Democrats ignore the working class, ignore betsuni Aug 2025 #18
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