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KGxvi1/27/2019 5:37:21 pm PST

re: #201 Joe Bacon 🌹

Anderson didn’t cost Carter in 1980. Reagan won a majority of the popular vote, and had a majority in enough states to give him 247 electoral votes. If you count states where he had a 49%+ plurality he was at 346 electoral votes.

Stein didn’t cost Clinton in 2016 either, yes, Stein’s vote totals in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania was more than the difference between Clinton and Trump. But in all three of those states, Johnson won more than twice Stein’s votes - and those most likely would have gone mostly to the Republican nominee if Johnson wasn’t in the race.

2000 in Florida was such a clusterfuck, you can blame Nader, you can blame the Palm Beach butterfly ballot and the unusual votes for Buchanan, you can also blame Gore’s GOTV efforts in Florida, or you can even blame the fact that Gore couldn’t carry his home state of Tennessee.

But the truth is, in most scenarios, a third party nominee doesn’t really play spoiler.