<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A bit of encouraging news in the slow migration of American voters away from the 2-party cartel...</div><div><header class="mainheading">
<h2 class="title"></h2></header><div class="p402_premium"><div class="entry postcontent"></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><header class="mainheading"><h2 class="title"><a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/04/24/election-do-over-poll-shows-gains-for-ga">Election Do-Over Poll Shows Gains for Gary Johnson, Jill Stein</a><span class="editor" pid="265561"></span></h2>
<h2 class="subtitle">No sign of third-party regrets</h2><p class="byline"><a href="http://reason.com/people/jesse-walker/all" rel="author">Jesse Walker</a></p><p class="byline"><time datetime="2017-04-24T14:36:00+00:00">Apr. 24, 2017 10:36 am</time></p>
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the people who participated in last year's election could do it all
again, Donald Trump would win the popular vote this time—but he wouldn't
actually get more support than before. Instead, according to a new <em>Washington Post</em>/ABC News <a href="http://www.langerresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/1186a1Trump100Days.pdf">poll</a>, many Hillary Clinton voters would now stay home or back a third-party candidate.</li></div></aside></header><div class="p402_premium"><div class="entry postcontent"><p>In the actual election, Clinton bested Trump in the popular vote, 48
percent to 46 percent. In the survey, 46 percent said they voted for
Clinton and 43 percent said they voted for Trump—not the same numbers,
obviously, but it's a similar margin. When those same people were asked
who they'd pick if they could do it again, Trump now won, 43 to 40.</p><p>You'll note that Trump hasn't gotten any more popular—he gets 43
percent either way. But Clinton has bled support: Gary Johnson now gets 5
percent of the vote (one point higher than how the respondents said
they voted last year), Jill Stein gets 3 percent (another one-point
bump), and another 8 percent would either vote for someone else or not
vote at all. (The remainder say they have no opinion.) The pollsters
note that "nonwhites are 10 points more likely than whites to say they
would not support Clinton again, with more than a third of them heading
to the Libertarian candidate, Gary Johnson."</p>
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</div> </aside><p>It's not all bad news for the Clintonites, though. When you include people who <em>didn't</em>
vote in 2016, Clinton comes out ahead in the do-over, 41 percent to 37
percent. (Johnson and Stein are still at 5 and 3 percent, respectively.)
So some nonvoters appear to wish they hadn't sat the last election out.</p><p>But when it comes to third-party supporters, we don't seem to be
seeing anything like the regretful Ralph Nader voters of 2000. If
anything, this poll suggests we're witnessing the opposite.</p></div></div></blockquote><div>(from <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/04/24/election-do-over-poll-shows-gains-for-ga">http://reason.com/blog/2017/04/24/election-do-over-poll-shows-gains-for-ga</a> )</div><div><br></div>Love & Liberty,</div><div> ((( starchild )))</div></body></html>