Percentage she got of the vote isn’t the same as turnout and she underperformed Obama and Trump got Romney margins with millennials which means that 8%, likely dinged her. And voter turnout was down this election.

Awesome, but you’re an exception rather than the rule. I know a handful of Johnson and Stein voters, about relative to their total share in the vote count

There were loads of millennials going for Johnson cause weed who generally consider themselves liberal. They didn’t know enough of his issues to realize he’s not their guy, or they didn’t care, but those voters were there.

Uh...I’m a millennial. We didn’t turn out in the numbers Hillary needed, and we consistently have poor turnout relative to other groups in the electorate.

Dude he ran in the primary and lost, and the goal of the primary is to let all the points of view duke it out. There’s no good data that Bernie could have won given the full onslaught of a real election. But yeah once someone wins the nomination, liberals should fall in line if they want to win. Republicans won in…

Dude, nobody knows who Johnson was pulling from. Some data said he was pulling from Clinton, but obviously the data sucked this time. My issue is with the balkanization of the left that impedes its ability to form coalitions that can yield actual change

My beef is with any liberal who when it’s down to the wire and there’s only one person who can realistically move them forward on their goals, doesn’t vote for that person. 

If just half of those people voted for Johnson or Stein they would have won the election.

Look, the way the gov’t works, change is likely gonna be incremental through coaltion building. If liberals wanna be above all that ‘cause they’re more “free thinking”, well they’re gonna continue having a hard time getting things done. And it’ll get harder as the Republicans get more power.

That’s my point. If you are a liberal who wanted to see liberal policies enacted, a vote for Hillary was the only mathematically viable way to do so, so yeah you should have fallen in line to get at least some of the things you wanted done. That’s how the system we have works and likely will continue to work for the…

So the 25% or so of the Jews who voted for Trump? Like I know we make up a teensy teensy small part of the US population, but please tell me again how Trump is good for us. Like the KKK and most of the people who aren’t keen on POCs and religious minorities don’t particulary like us either, and his supporters are…

If they’d like to beat Trump, uh well yeah that’s how math works. Trump won ‘cause the right coalesced around him; white working class wouldn’t have been enough on their own. And that’s how the Repubs got their senate and house majorities too, they show up, hold their nose, and vote Republican. 

I have far more ire for Stein supporters than Johnson ones ‘cause at least the latter in theory aren’t mostly liberal. But the Stein supporters though are emblematic of the ideological purity in the left that goes into eat our own territory. It’s like the left won’t band for anything anymore, and that’s what really…

So much of this. I so very much feel like Johnson and Stein and the lower than needed democratic turn out is all part of the left’s vehement refusal to fall in line ‘cause ideological purity must be sacrosanct. Republicans keep winning things, especially non shiny things, ‘cause they’re more willing to hold their nose…

You don’t. There’s some misinformation floating about that says that you need to vote straight ticket to get fund matching for your 3rd party. It’s an especially big source of confusion in New York ‘cause we do vote fusion here (so Clinton/Kaine is listed on the ballot under Democrat, Working Families, and Women’s…

A poll worker told her that all her votes had to be cast for the same party.

She’s not the first Asian American congresswoman, but everything else about her is awesome.

In NYS, you can’t get on the ballot as a third party candidate for the state senate.

The Green party senate candididate in New York is basically running on “you all know my platform, so I’m not gonna bother telling you my platform...but I will tweet”. Like yeah, she’s technically running, but not in a way that could actually win her votes from anyone who wasn’t gonna vote Green anyway. I hadn’t even…

perhaps with the totals not being quite as dire