Why are people giving Jill Stein millions of dollars for an election recount?
Source: Washington Post, by David Weigel
On Wednesday afternoon, near the start of one of the year's final news droughts, former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein announced a new campaign: to pay for recounts in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Maine. The news went first to the journalist Greg Palast, then on Stein's Facebook page, then in an interview with the Russian propaganda channel RT.
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More Clinton fans see this as a waste of time at best. Someone was going to tap into mounting liberal anger that for the second time this century a Democrat has lost the presidency while winning the popular vote. But Democrats can't believe that the someone was Stein. In all three of the contested states, Stein campaigned for votes; in Michigan and Wisconsin, her total was greater than the gap between Clinton and Trump.
For Democrats, Stein's role in the campaign resurrects some of the worst aspects of the campaign. It directs liberal anger toward a hopeless goal. It feeds into a Russian story line promoted on RT that American democracy is awfully flimsy, considering that the country claims to lead the world. And it helps a third party that can split Democratic votes. On Thursday afternoon, a few Democrats suggested that people reaching for their credit cards in anger were ignoring an actual, achievable cause.
Louisiana's low-profile Senate runoff, in which Democrat-turned-Republican John Kennedy is heavily favored, takes place on Dec. 10. Foster Campbell, the populist Democrat who made the runoff, has raised just $1,461,752 or less than half as much as the recount campaign raised in a day.
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msongs
(67,381 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Where you been the last two years?
Just not going out played by the Green Party candidate and some conspiracy theorists.
But "Good luck" with that!
oberliner
(58,724 posts)In order to raise more money than they were able to raise in their entire campaign.
A campaign that was, incidentally, actively and aggressively fighting against Hillary Clinton becoming president.