• ShepherdPie@midwest.social
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    7 months ago

    Why don’t you believe it that it’s more about the open primary in this one state than Bernie voters voting for Trump?

    You voted for Bernie and still voted for Clinton after all the bullshit that happened within the party and so did I. I would need to see equivalent data from a closed primary state to even begin to believe in this possibility. From their side, it’d be the equivalent of one of us voting for Trump in an open primary back in 2016 when nobody thought he’d win the general in order to spoil the Republican race for the general election.

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      7 months ago

      You voted for Bernie and still voted for Clinton

      No, I voted for Stein. I said that; literally the second sentence there. The state I lived in at the time went strongly for Clinton.

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        7 months ago

        Okay well I added that as an edit and wasn’t able to reread your comment while writing it. Either way the point still stands that you didn’t jump to Trump after Bernie lost the primary and I don’t believe this analysis as it was done in a single state with an open primary. Occam’s Razor states that the simplest solution is the most likely and Republicans trying to spoil the Democratic ticket makes a lot more sense than Bernie bros voting for Trump.