hurricanehink
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« on: August 08, 2017, 04:36:42 PM » |
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Green Party (the main liberal 3rd Party) candidate Seth Kaper-Dale could attract *some* of the Bernie Bro support, but not much. New Jersey is a very establishment state (for now).
Last year in the primaries, Bernie got 328,058 votes, or 36.68% of the total. In the general, Jill Stein only got 37,772 votes, which for comparison is 11% of Bernie's total. I'd wager that of the 260,039 opposition votes (primary voters who didn't back Murphy), Kaper-Dale might get 11% (28,604) if he's lucky, which would be four times as many as Steve Welzer got as Green Party nom in 2013.
On the Republican side in the 2016 primary, Cruz and Kasich received 87,740 votes despite them having withdrawn by then. This is in the ballpark of the 72,477 votes that Johnson got for Libertarian Party. With 129,925 votes against the establishment Guadagno, there would likely be a similar dropoff for the main conservative 3rd party, the Libertarians, which picked up 12,155 votes in 2013.
In short, I like stats, but I really have no idea 😜
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