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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They also helped Bill Clinton get elected, so that's nice.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

They rarely work in Democrat’s favor. Jill Stein alone has siphoned off Democratic votes in the last five elections. Maybe that’s why Putin keeps publicizing her.

https://www.thirdway.org/memo/red-alert-putin-puppet-jill-stein-and-her-russia-friendly-agenda

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh, totally. But that goofy big-eared Texan with the charts and "can ah finish" helped Clinton.

Maybe Democrats need to do something like that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There’s some hope that RFK Jr. will take more votes from Trump than Biden, but there’s too much at stake in this election to be holding our breath.

Perot was a hell of a character though. He was all over Mad magazine during that election.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dana Carvey's impressions of him were hilarious

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I forgot about that! He also did a killer HW Bush. “Nah gon doit”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Jill Stein has not been a candidate for 5 elections.

Green candidates:

2020 - Howie Hawkins - 407,068 votes nationally. 0.26%

2016 - Jill Stein - 1,457,218 - 1.07%

2012 - Jill Stein - 469,627 - 0.36%

2008 - Cynthia McKinney - 161,797 - 0.12%

2004 - David Cobb - 119,859 - 0.10%

2000 - Ralph Nader - 2,882,955 - 2.74%

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And? That just confirms what I'm saying, she hasn't been a candidate "for the last five elections", in fact, take "five" out of it, she wasn't even a candidate in the LAST election.