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In reply to the discussion: Before the nukes fly, FUCK YOU 3RD PARTY VOTERS ALL TO HELL! [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)I go to the relevant section of the Wikipedia article on the election, namely the section with state-by-state results.
The table gives the raw vote totals and the percentages. I use the latter because there's less typing. Obviously it comes out the same. Also, I take the issue here to be those who voted third-party on the left, not the Libertarians.
Michigan: Clinton 47.27%, Trump 47.50% (difference 0.23%), Stein 1.07%.
Pennsylvania: Clinton 47.46%, Trump 48.18% (difference 0.72%), Stein 0.81%.
Wisconsin: Clinton 46.45%, Trump 47.22% (difference 0.77%), Stein 1.04%.
So if all the Stein voters in these three states had instead voted for Clinton, she would have carried those three states and won the election; but if only half had voted for her, that would have swung only Michigan, and Trump would still have had an Electoral College majority.
It would take me more work to factor in the other minor parties, such as the Party for Socialism and Liberation, but I'm confident that all those votes combined were too few to affect these conclusions.
Having presented the numbers, let me add that they're not particularly relevant. An electoral result has many causes. It's myopic to say that Trump's win was due solely to leftists who voted for minor-party candidates.