To Its Credit, New York Times Mentions 2016 Exit Polls Relative to Jill Stein

Posted on by October 6, 2023

On October 6, the New York Times published an article about Cornel West’s decision to run for president as an independent instead of as a Green. Unlike almost every other major media story, the New York Times story, written by Charles Homans, stated that Jill Stein most likely did not “spoil” the election for Hillary Clinton. He wrote, “The number of votes received by the (Green) party’s nominee, Jill Stein, in three battleground states would have been enough for Hillary Clinton to defeat Donald Trump in the election – although exit polls in one of the states, Michigan, found that only a quarter of Ms. Stein’s voters said they would have otherwise have voted for Ms. Clinton.”

Michigan in 2016 was the closest of all the states that Trump carried. Homans could have added, but he didn’t, that the same exit polls showed that 14% of the Stein voters otherwise have voted for Trump. When one does the math, one sees that Stein did not change the outcome in any state.

The article is probably behind a paywall for most BAN readers, but here is a link.

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To Its Credit, New York Times Mentions 2016 Exit Polls Relative to Jill Stein — 10 Comments

  8. I’d like to ask a question that I think might possibly be on the minds of some people who follow minor parties: who are the Greens going to run for President?

  10. Gato, it would be someone who can handle working with the Green Party and their internal process. The party wants someone who will do party-support work. Cornel West says he felt constrained by that. The Green Party wasn’t just going to let Jesse Ventura bypass their process and give him the nomination in 2020. Although, many other candidates in 2020 said the process was rigged for Howie Hawkins. Maybe Jill Stein, who was working with West for a time, will run again?

    Could you imagine if getting ballot access in our 50 states as an independent didn’t require this huge machinery behind you?

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