As of this writing, the popular vote count shows Clinton with a huge 1.76M vote lead over Trump. That vote differential is bigger than Kennedy or Nixon. Her popular vote lead is now > 1.3 percentage points, yet we will have to subjected to the horrors of President Trump for the remainder of American history.
Now look at the latest vote count breakdown from the Cook Report here. The swing states that resulted in the Electoral College win by Trump (FL, PA, WI, MI) were all within 1.2 percentage points.
And 3rd parties took 5% of the vote this year. Based on exit poll data, the 3rd party votes came from one of the Democrat’s largest voting blocs, millennials.
Therefore, it is very safe to assume that if the millennials had not fallen for the rhetoric from Jill Stein & Bernie Sanders calling Clinton a Wall Street shill and a liar, that would have likely resulted in enough additional Dem votes to push those 4 states back into the Dem column to win the Electoral College for Clinton.
There are plenty of arguments to be made that she didn’t do enough to win back those voters and that’s fair.
But what is plainly true from a purely statistical perspective is that 3rd parties siphoned off enough votes from Clinton in those swing states to result in a new uber-conservative Supreme Court and an uber-conservative Congress that will undo 8 years of progress under Obama.
I’m old enough to have lived through the disaster brought on by Ralph Nader in Florida to 2000 giving us 8 years of W. I’m just completely flabbergasted that we allowed this to happen again and for history to repeat itself just 16 years later.
Liberal / progressive leaning Americans who did not vote for Clinton on Nov 8 should be ashamed of themselves and will bear the burden of the next 4-8 years of disaster being wrought upon our country.
