2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Switch Jill Stein votes to Clinton, and just half of Gary Johnson votes, and here's what you get: [View all]
Not even talking about all Gary Johnson voters... *JUST* Jill Stein voters and *HALF* of Gary Johnson voters:
Wisconsin:
Clinton: 1,466,411
Trump: 1,409,467
Michigan:
Clinton: 2,404,999
Trump: 2,279.221
Pennsylvania:
Clinton: 2,964,943
Trump: 2,912,941
Florida:
Clinton: 4,652,867
Trump: 4,605,515
New EV: Clinton=307, Trump 231
The next time you want to throw away your vote on a third-party candidate.... remember that. Jill Stein votes *ALONE* cost us Michigan and Wisconsin. Jill Stein votes + half of Gary Johnson votes cost us PA and Florida.
Exit polls showed that nearly 15% of millennials voted for Stein or Johnson. No doubt, many of them because they thought it was "cool" to show they didn't have allegiance to either party.
Well... those folks are as responsible for the pain Trump is going to impose on them for the rest of their lives as anyone. The SCOTUS will be at least 5-4 conservative for the next few decades now.
You thought Trump and Clinton were tweedledum and tweedledee? Well, Stein and Johnson voters, you're about to find out how different they truly were. And it will hurt.