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In reply to the discussion: I've, and most of us who have been here for quite sometime realize one thing........ [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)but lets start with this:
"the difference largely came from 2008/2012 Obama voters who voted for Trump over Clinton. But yes, blame it on "the left", please."
I always laugh at this kind of logic because it means nothing. We don't know who those voters are. They could have been Republicans who initially voted Obama because they didnt like McCain or Romney. They could have been independents. They could have been insane. We don't know.
The same thing was said about Nader. And by the way, even knowing their party ID doesnt mean anything quite frankly because there is no test to register Democratic or Republican. A lot of folks who register Democratic in the panhandle of Florida aren't really Democrats at all and support nothing on the Democratic Platform. But they register as Democratic because they don't identify as being the same as their very far right wing neighbors.
I hear this attempt at a point a lot from Nader and Stein apologists. Its pretty telling about how flawed their reasoning is in general.