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Scott
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Scott asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 6 months ago

Did the Libertarian vote make Trump lose some swing states?

They usually get between 1.0 to 1.7 percent of the vote.  This example is typical.

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  • 6 months ago
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    The libertarian vote from 2016 got slashed by 2/3.  Doesn't look to me like the donkeys and the elephants left any meat on those bones.  

  • 6 months ago

    Maybe.  The vote in Arizona isn't totally done, but the difference is going to be less than the Libertarian vote.  It was 1.5% here so far.

    But you can't 1:1 say that folks who vote libertarian are going to go to Trump.  I've done it in the past.  Hell, I didn't vote for McSally this election and wrote in an official Libertarian write in.  I won't vote for someone period when I think they are a horrible candidate.  All that does is get me asked to vote for them over and over. 

  • 6 months ago

    Nope they tally up all the votes for both and have discovered that there was 30,500,000 more votes than there are living adults in the nation!

  • 6 months ago

    Libertarians are more like anarchists than republicans. They're nothing like Republicans.

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    Lv 4
    6 months ago

    How did they make Trump lose? You assume Trump was OWED their votes. That’s your false premise. 

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