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[–] tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world 60 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

folks that voted third party because "my state will be blue"

Admittedly not all the votes are in, but...

  • Pennsylvania - Trump up by 130k votes, Jill Stein got 33k votes
  • Michigan - Trump up by 84k votes, Jill Stein got 45k votes
  • Wisconsin - Trump up by 28k votes, Jill Stein got 12k votes

Are all Jill Stein votes from protest voters? Nah, there are diehard Green supporters out there.

Are there other 3rd party candidates? Of course, but how many RFK (more votes than Stein in WI) voters could she have converted? Almost none.

This was her blue wall road to victory, show me the electoral path to victory ruined by third party voters who would have otherwise voted Democrat.

This election was lost by people not showing up to vote. Trump is sitting at almost 72M votes right now compared to 74M in 2020. Harris is only at 67M now, compared to Biden's 81M in 2020. While there are still votes to count, there aren't 15M votes left to count.

Whether it was lack of interest, protest, or whatever reason, 10% of voters stayed home this year.

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I blame the Stein voters exactly as much as I blame the people staying at home. And neither as much as the people who voted for Trump.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 0 points 1 month ago

And you lay absolutely zero blame at the feet of the Democratic Party itself?

[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

A good chunk of biden voters then were shepherded in by Bernie since Biden ended up compromising with Bernie for the transition.

Imagine if Harris threw a bone to the left. Those are some of the 15 million who stayed home.