Polls Show Clinton Losing Some Millennial Voters

The Wall Street Journal does a nice job today mashing up Gallup’s useful historical charts of third-party presidential polling, which has shown consistent, across-the-board collapses between mid-June and mid-September, with this year’s numbers from Libertarian Gary Johnson and Jill Stein, which have shown no such thing.

For the first time in nearly 20 years, the third-party candidates are getting attention across the board. I’m not so sure about that. (Beer may have been involved).

And I’m told by my older, conservative friends that by not supporting Trump, I may as well vote for Clinton. Who knows what it is? A rumor circulated that I wasn’t a real person and that I was actually somebody’s cat.

Earlier this year, Stein couldn’t decide if Putin should be classified as a despot. “When we needlessly provoke him and endanger him and surround him with war games – this is sort of the Cuban Missile Crisis on steroids … and I don’t think this is a good idea”. I think we have divided electorate.

Now, 27 percent say they are very happy with and 20 percent say they are satisfied, with 47 percent saying they view her positively. As I was admiring his new corvette I realized he was the fraternity guy who had won the election. Stein’s name often does not appear on the popularity polling questionnaires chosen by the commission to be used in rating candidates’ popularity. Libertarian nominee: Rumors VP will leave ticket are “bullshit” MORE the presidency in the closest election in history.

Johnson has become much more radical in his economic perceptions and intended practices since becoming the nominee of the Libertarian Party back in 2012 and now. He is opposed to military intervention and is somewhat an isolationist. He favors a balanced budget, law and order (with a drug policy including decriminalization of marijuana), and “simplified and reduced taxes”.

She is a former Democrat who ran for governor in MA twice.

As I said, it calls for abolition of the income tax and the privatization of nearly everything the government does, including education. Stein’s platform emphasizes the environment, renewable energy, and campaign finance reform. She wishes to transition America to 100 percent clean, renewable energy by 2030. Jill Stein is 4 or 5 percent. Nevertheless they may influence the election outcome through key demographic groups. If Holt sticks to that model and, say, asks Trump if Trump was trying to foment violence against Clinton when he suggested Clinton’s bodyguards disarm.

“Obama won 60% of these voters under the age of 30 during the re-election campaign, according to 2012 exit polls”, Time continued. Johnson has positioned himself as a liberal on social issues such as abortion and marijuana legalization, seeking to appeal to left-leaning progressive voters distrustful of Clinton. Everyone knows this, making third-party candidates suffer in terms of name recognition, money, and organizational skills.

In the 1992 election the Reform Party candidate was Texas Businessman Ross Perot. Mr. Nader received 2.7 percent of the popular vote in 2000. This, however, was enough to cost Al Gore Florida’s electoral votes and ultimately the election. It would be a down payment for a whole new kind of politics in the years ahead, and a new party based on social movements and ordinary people-a party of, by, and for the 99 percent.

“If they could bail out the crooks who crashed the economy, it’s time to bail out the students who are the victims of that crashed economy”. For young voters, these third-party candidates are the future. If so, by all means vote for Johnson.