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lees1975

(3,726 posts)
18. 1%
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 01:21 PM
Mar 2020

One percent of the vote in three states cost Hillary the election. If she'd have picked up just that much more in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, she'd be in the White House now and we'd still have a pandemic response team and wouldn't be sheltering in place.

But where would it have come from? 7% of the African American vote stayed home in those three states. Stein got a lot of Bernie voters, way more than a third party should have collected. It was more than one factor, but Bernie's stay at home crowd was part of it. That better not happen again or the progressive movement and all those young congressmen who got swept into office by it will be gone, voted out, done.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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