Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "" video.
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Actually he could have. 45% didn't even bother to vote between turd Psycho A vs Turd Psycho B.
Then there are the 2 major states that had margins that Jill Stein had over the margin victory. If some of her voters like myself voted for Bernie, and Bernie got some of the 45% abstaining to actually bother to go vote he would have.
16 electoral votes: Michigan 47.6% Trump 47.3% Hillary and 1.1% Jill Stein; margin of 0.3%.
10 Electoral votes: Wisconsin 47.9% Trump, 46.9% Hillary, and 1.1% Jill Stein. With 1.0% margin between Trump vs Hillary.
20 Electoral votes: Pennsylvania 48.8% Trump, 47.6% Hillary, and 0.8% Jill Stein; margin 1.2%
Just with these 3 states is winning 46 electoral votes; 278 for potentially a Bernie and 260 for Trump.
Florida could have swung too for an even bigger victory for Bernie:
29 Electoral votes: Florida 49.1% Trump, 47.8% Hillary, and 0.7% Jill Stein, with Trump/Hillary margin of 1.3%
So it is reasonable to say he could have won. Anecdotally, I live in Idaho where independent and mostly right winger kind of goes hand and hand with about 2/3 unfortunately. Many were turned off by Trump, and said if they got to vote for Bernie, they would have because they don't believe in Trickle down economics anymore, the 3rd/4th time trying. They're done with the right wing gimmicks on the economy. They didn't even bother to vote. And of course all my liberal/progressive/lefty buddies around the country and here in Idaho either didn't bother to vote, or voted for Jill Stein as I voted for her too.
And I only voted because it was on my way home from work, and there wasn't any lines, my polling places was more dead than on the last midterm election.
So likely Bernie would have won. I did this homework because I was curious if he really did have a shot... and based on these figures, if he did as shitty as Hillary, and she didn't do that well in blue normally blue states, and still invoked some more turnout and took some of the Stein voters, he really would have won.
Now, I'm pissed I bothered. He really could have won... FUCK!
Instead we got Trump a Dump, who is has some serious pathology issues, filled his cabinet with oligarchs, and his only achievement so far is to repeat trickle down idiocy, the last one nearly imploded our financial system. And all they did to fix the last one was inflate it back up for a while, so in 2 years, by 2019 year end we will likely be in a great depression, and probably laid off from work :( Fuck FUCK FUCK!
https://www.politico.com/mapdata-2016/2016-election/results/map/president/
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