Did Gary Johnson make a difference in the swing states?

[Anonymous]

I can't bear to try to crunch the numbers. Someone tell me if he did. I did see somewhere it said that he got 9% of the millennial vote, and 8% of the 30-44 age bracket. That's a lot of people putting their votes in the shredder, if they were in swing states.
If it made a difference, then I absolutely blame the pollsters. If people thought it was close, I can't believe so many of them would have burned their vote.

[Anonymous]

OP, voting different than you does not equal burning a vote.

[Anonymous]

Voting for someone that is never going to win is burning a vote, in my book. You could take your ballot out into the street and yell "I hate everybody! And pot should be legal! And where's Aleppo anyway?" and light your ballot on fire. It would have the same effect as voting for Gary Johnson did.

[Anonymous]

I think most of Gary Johnson voters align more with Trump than Clinton. They were mostly republicans who can't stand Trump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Voting for someone that is never going to win is burning a vote, in my book. You could take your ballot out into the street and yell "I hate everybody! And pot should be legal! And where's Aleppo anyway?" and light your ballot on fire. It would have the same effect as voting for Gary Johnson did.

Your book is wrong. Votes have to be earned; a candidate is not entitled to them because they have an R or a D next to their name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think most of Gary Johnson voters align more with Trump than Clinton. They were mostly republicans who can't stand Trump.

That was my impression as well. Plus there are actually a fair number of Libertarians in this country who would have voted for him anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think most of Gary Johnson voters align more with Trump than Clinton. They were mostly republicans who can't stand Trump.

I voted for GJ in 2012. I would have loved to have seen him take NM this time around

[Anonymous]

It's not Gary Johnson, whose voters are as likely to be Trump as not.

It was Jill Stein.

The vote that went to her in Pa, Michigan and Wisconsin, dropped Hillary below Trump. If those votes went to Hillary, she would be President Elect Clinton

[Anonymous]

GJ took 200k votes in Fl. Clinton lost Fl by 130k votes.

[Anonymous]

You could ask why Hillary (and trump) didn't win them over.

[Anonymous]

Not from what I saw. My dh was analyzing the results like sports nuts study baseball. The third party did not have a strong infuence. This was not a Ralph Nader situation.

[Anonymous]

I think most Johnson voters were Never Trump Republicans and hardcore Libertarians who had no love for either candidate. I doubt Clinton was their second choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think most of Gary Johnson voters align more with Trump than Clinton. They were mostly republicans who can't stand Trump.

+1

Hillary never had a chance with all the Johnson voters I know; They just didn't want to vote Trump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think most of Gary Johnson voters align more with Trump than Clinton. They were mostly republicans who can't stand Trump.

+1

Hillary never had a chance with all the Johnson voters I know; They just didn't want to vote Trump.

But they effectively did anyway. If they didn't want to vote Trump, then they should have voted Clinton. As much as people may dislike it, we still have a 2-party system in this country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GJ took 200k votes in Fl. Clinton lost Fl by 130k votes.

My spouse and I are FL voters. My DH would have voted for Charlie Brown to avoid voting for Hillary or Trump, however had those been his only 2 choices, he would have voted Trump.