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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders: ‘This is not the time for a protest vote’ [View all]ColemanMaskell
(783 posts)Depends who they would have voted for if no third-party candidate was there.
Johnson's Libertarian views are a natural magnet for disaffected right-wingers. Any votes he can draw away from Trump are all to the good.
The Green Party is the natural magnet for disaffected Dems, but Stein is not drawing very many, possibly because she isn't doing much Green campaigning, most noticeably just anti-Hillary; and any third-party anti-Hillary votes tend by nature to go to Johnson.
-- and the math is wrong on this meme. It isn't an entire vote for the other candidate. It's a fraction of a vote. Voting third party is the same as staying home (mathematically). If everybody stays home, it doesn't mean the opposition wins, it means nobody wins.
What we want is for the opposition voters to stay home, or vote third-party.
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