Adding or removing a candidate who is essentially a rounding error shouldn’t make a difference.
In 2020, in Wisconsin, the Green candidate, Howie Hawkins, ran as a write in and got a little over 1,000 votes. 0.03% of the vote. Biden won the state by 20,000.
Jo Jorgenson, the Libertarian candidate, also running as a write in, was an actual factor taking 38,491 votes most likely away from Trump.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_Wisconsin
Adding or removing a candidate who is essentially a rounding error shouldn’t make a difference.
I agree. But I wonder why Democrat Party worked so hard to have her removed if it doesn’t really make much of a difference.
In 2016, the number of votes Jill Stein got WAS bigger than the number Clinton lost by, and for the faithful who can’t see a) Clinton was a terrible candidate and b) she fucked up by not campaigning in Wisconsin, they’d rather blame Stein for the loss than point the finger at Clinton.
Yep. And I was gonna vote Democrat that year when Bernie was taking the world by storm. I’m a big Bernie fan.
Then Clinton pushed him out, and I def switched back to Green.
Jo Jorgenson, the Libertarian candidate, also running as a write in, was an actual factor taking 38,491 votes most likely away from Trump.
I wonder if history will repeat itself with the Libertarian candidate. The current libertarian candidate seems to be a much stronger candidate than Jorgenson was.
Not sure, TBH, I haven’t really been following the Libertarian side of things. You would think the Republicans who defected from their party would have ended up in the Libertarians, and that didn’t happen.
Also Walz’s message of “Mind your own damn business!” could be a Libertarian bumper sticker.
Based on what I’ve seen in real life with the Republicans I’ve known, when they don’t like their candidate, they don’t usually defect. They just sit out the election.
I live near the birthplace of the Libertarian party, and most Libertarians around here do not like Trump at all.
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