Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein will remain on the ballot in Wisconsin after the state Supreme Court decided not to hear a Democratic challenge seeking to oust her.
  • @jordanlundM
    6•20 days ago

    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

    • Socialist BerserkerOP
      0•20 days ago

      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.

      • @jordanlundM
        6•20 days ago

        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.

        • Socialist BerserkerOP
          -1•20 days ago

          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.

          • @jordanlundM
            3•20 days ago

            Oh, I’m not talking RECENTLY. The Republican party has been bleeding membership for 20 years now.

            The weird thing is they’re registering as “Independent” over Libertarian.

    • Socialist BerserkerOP
      -4•20 days ago

      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.

      • @jordanlundM
        6•20 days ago

        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.

        • Socialist BerserkerOP
          -3•20 days ago

          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.

          • @jordanlundM
            5•20 days ago

            I still voted for Bernie, one of the benefits of living in a safe blue state, you can throw away your vote if you want to. ;)