Your critique of third-party voters is entirely off-base, and is bolstering the misinformation regarding this issue.

Gary Johnson pulled votes away from the Republicans.... Most of his support came from disgruntled Republicans, who despised Trump. He himself is a former Republican. Exactly how many Democrats do you think voted for a libertarian? And how many disgruntled Democrats do you think voted Green?

I live in a state that has overwhelming voted Democrat in the last two decades. So ... unless I vote Democrat my vote never counts. I could vote Republican and it would have made no difference in this election.

I’m a millenial who voted for Gary Johnson and I’m proud of it. I’ve never tried weed, I usually vote Republican, and I voted in the primaries (not for Trump).

I say this with all due respect, and I hope that some of you take a minute to actually think about this from someone else’s perspective:

Fuck Johnson? Are you fucking serious right now Ellie??? How about fuck the DNC? How about fuck all the ignoramuses that believe it has been and always will be a two party system in this country?? Nah FUCK YOU for trying to discount anyone for exercising their right to vote! If 54-57% of the country was stupid enough…

God you people are insufferable, you really are. You are the most divisive, insufferable, intolerable, smarmy, whiny, bitchy, haughty, ignorant, and laughable people in the universe! You really, really, really, (three reallys) are! You push people away with your divisive agendas, your blatant attack on the white…

First, why is it Johnson’s fault that Clinton didn’t appeal to a larger audience?

You are going to blame Gary Johnson for Hillary Clinton’s loss? Could it be her treasonist Russian uranium deal?, Could it be that she is a neocon who wants to take out Assad and set up a no-fly zone risking WWIII? Could it be the socialist utopian Venezuelan-style ideas she adopted from Bernie?

You seriously believe a vote for Gary Johnson took away a Hillary vote? I was considering him as an alternate for Trump, not Hillary. I didn’t vote for him, but if I had it wouldn’t have been an alternative to the left.

Trump won in spite of Johnson not because of him. Johnson took votes from Trump, not Hillary. Blaming Johnson for Trump’s win is continuing to completely disregard how bad things are for millions of Americans and how things didn’t improve under Obama. Trump’s election is a rejection of the status quo. People wanted…

The only person to blame for Hillary losing, is Hillary. She’s the fuck up with the endless scandals and lies. She’s the fuck up with the idiots who fucked up the election process which utterly disenfranchised the democratic base. Even with huge numbers of Bernie-or-Bust voters removed from the equation, she still…

You’re assuming that those who voted for Johnson are those who would have voted for Clinton instead. Libertarians have far more in tow with conservatives than they do with liberals/progressives. Did he pull some away from Clinton? Probably. But I can assure you that Trump’s numbers would have seen the higher boost…

Gary Johnson voter here. My next pick would have been to swallow the pill and vote trump. Sure he’s a terrible role model and is awful to people in a 1-on-1 scenario, but that pales in the comparison to Hillary who has literally gone and tried to screw millions upon millions of us over at once. Trump honestly seems…

Gary Johnson, a Libertarian nominee so baldly ill-equipped to win the presidency that his own VP Bill Weld semi-openly supported Clinton, has done his part—to the tune of a historic 4 million votes—to help ensure a Donald Trump presidency.

Yes, because people who voted Libertarian were totally going to vote for the war hawk, big government, liberal political insider instead if he wasn’t running. Be honest with yourself. If you think Johnson hurt Clinton, than you mam are a fucking idiot.

Haha. So fucking desperate for a reason other than the one staring you in the face...the country hates Hillary Clinton. And it’s not because she’s a woman. You can make whatever bullshit assumptions you want. Fuck you for blaming all of this on voters who used their right to vote on the candidate they felt best…

Sorry Ellie and those who agree with you, fuck Hillary and the DNC. They are the ones whose election it was to lose. They fucked up, not Johnson or Stein for offering laughable alternatives. Also, the electoral map did not change by more than maybe one state because of their involvement. Do not blame third parties,…

People that voted for gary johnson would have voted for Trump, not Hilary.
Holy shit... is there a writer around here that’s actually good in politics and not dumb as a rock?

Whatever you do democrats, please don’t look in the mirror. Blame 3rd parties, wikileaks, FBI, Russia, the media, etc...This loss has nothing to do with the fact the democrats basically trotted out a hawkish neocon. Sure, run someone who voted for the Patriot Act (twice), the war in Iraq, who is so hawkish that the…