Why the Green Party matters.

[Ken Burch]

183. Stein herself is unreachable. I never meant try to persuade Stein to change HER mind.

The voters who would consider voting for her ARE reachable, however. We just need to point out and point up the good things we've added to our platform(and the good message our party has sent by being willing to listen and change, which indicates that activists can influence the course of the next Democratic administration if they will campaign and support for it).

We need to keep making it clear to them that Bernie's candidacy made a difference, and that supporting HRC is not a betrayal of what they fought for in the primaries as a result of that difference. That would win us votes without losing them anywhere else.

You're not going to reach those voters by treating the Greens as a den of evil, and by implying that THEY, as opposed to Stein, are guilty of wanting a Trump presidency. And you aren't going to impress any OTHER voters by doing so.

By all means we should say "a vote for Stein is a vote for Trump".

We should not say "if you're even considering Stein, you personally WANT Trump to be president". All that approach can do is to guarantee that those people will vote for that candidate instead of ours.

We are more likely to win if we AREN'T heavy-handed and if we don't keep trying to use the fall campaigns to get payback for 2000. It sucks that 2000 ended as it did...but that was sixteen years ago. A lot of voters this year were in training pants when that campaign occurred.