Are third-party candidates spoilers? What voting data reveal
- Written by Daniel P. Franklin, Associate Professor, Political Science, Georgia State University
Green Party candidate Jill Stein does not see herself as a spoiler in the 2016 presidential race.
Her voters, Stein claims, would not have come to the polls had she not been in the race.
But what if Stein were wrong and she didn’t bring new voters to the polls? The number of votes Stein got in Michigan and Wisconsin exceeded the gap between...
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