MicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours agoLetters to the Editor: Your 'protest vote' for Jill Stein is really a vote for Donald Trumpwww.latimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square99fedilinkarrow-up1491arrow-down156
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minus-squareXtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down2·7 hours agoSometimes the Green Party protest vote is a vote for George H.W. Bush.
minus-squareStovetop@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·2 hours agoAnd George W. Bush. And Donald Trump (the first time). If the Green Party wasn’t a thing, there would be a lot of elections that the Republicans wouldn’t have won, because the margins were just that thin.
minus-squareNuclearDolphin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 minutes agoThat’s assuming green party voters would vote for the dems, which probably isn’t the case. They’d be more likely to just not vote.
Sometimes the Green Party protest vote is a vote for George H.W. Bush.
And George W. Bush.
And Donald Trump (the first time).
If the Green Party wasn’t a thing, there would be a lot of elections that the Republicans wouldn’t have won, because the margins were just that thin.
That’s assuming green party voters would vote for the dems, which probably isn’t the case. They’d be more likely to just not vote.