2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Switch Jill Stein votes to Clinton, and just half of Gary Johnson votes, and here's what you get: [View all]SQUEE
(1,315 posts)How many "Democrats" didn't even do that? or worse how many voted Trump?
I think you have this all backwards. Those are not "our" votes until they are cast for us. Until that they are just potential, and we failed to properly cultivate this potential.
Remember and lament, only 25% of America even showed up to vote for our party, that is what we have to examine. Why did we not fire up people to trust Hillary with their choice.
And to tell someone they threw away their vote, or that they were just being thoughtless is hubris, and not the way to get them to turn up in 2018 and 2020.
I had the horrible experience of casting my "protest vote" for David Kent, because we all knew Diane Black was a shoe in.. No chance to win, did I throw my vote away?