Jill Stein, names herself the Plan B candidate for Sanders supporters.

[Milchshake]

What, no Jill Stein Megathread?

NEW LONDON — Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for president, visited Connecticut Thursday pitching herself as "plan B" for disaffected Bernie Sanders supporters.

"Now we can join forces because a revolutionary campaign needs a revolutionary political party and that's what we bring to the table today," she told a small crowd gathered in the Garde Gallery downtown. Sanders, the Vermont senator who energized progressives with his insurgent campaign, last week endorsed Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee.

Asked in an interview with The Courant before the event if Sanders supporters flocking to her campaign would hurt Clinton's chances against Donald Trump in November, Stein said the American people "are clamoring for someone who is not Hillary and not Donald."

"The idea that politicians have a new form of entitlement called the right to your vote? Hillary Clinton doesn't own anybody's votes, she's got to earn those votes," Stein said. "And by all appearances, she's not earning those votes."

[Bollocks]

She is an idiot. Also you can only vote for here in like 25 states IIRC.

[Celista]

I think she's great and I think she'll have a lot of appeal to Sanders supporters.

I don't think that anyone thinks she'll get a majority number of electoral college votes this election season. But, with the current voter unhappiness regarding both Clinton and Trump, third party candidates may be in a stronger position in future elections.

[Reinhard von Lohengramm]

Yes, that's right, go ahead and split that left-wing voter base. Split it right down the middle.

[apples]

More like plan Z. I'd go further, but I ran out of letters before I ran out of registered Democrats who have experience holding a federal office of some sort.

you cant even jokingly pretend thats a required quality

[Sunseeker]

She is an idiot. Also you can only vote for here in like 25 states IIRC.

She might only be on the ballot in some number of states, but you can write-in anyone in any election for any position.

[Milchshake]

She is an idiot. Also you can only vote for here in like 25 states IIRC.

Trump loves the low information voters. Will she and Trump split the low information vote then?

[Sunseeker]

A small handful of states do not allow write in votes.

Well, learn something new every day. Now that's a bigger travesty of democracy than Trump IMO.

[Bollocks]

Trump loves the low information voters. Will she and Trump split the low information vote then?

Ya quiesiera que lleve a else grupo de cultistas y al perdedor de su lider. However she is a socialist and would only serve to divide the democratic vote further for little to no results. Even bernie supporters acknowledge this fact.

[Stonecloak]

Getting the impression they won't vote for anyone now. The wiki leaks is fresh in their mind. kind of hard to ask somebody to support a candidate that basically screwed them. I think this is becoming an independent vs two party system thing.

[Mackeyser]

Jill Stein ended up on 47 state ballots in 2012 and the goal this time is to be on all of the ballots in 2016.

Unfortunately, thanks to both of the corrupt parties, it's increasingly difficult for third party candidates to even GET on the ballot.

Because Dems and Reps believe in actual democracy.../sarcasm

When people actually listen to the actual policy positions and what she actually has to say and what she's done and stood for in her career as a physician, it's actually pretty compelling.

I mean, she didn't take fire in Bosnia or buy a beauty pageant...

[Gsara]

Jill Stein ended up on 47 state ballots in 2012 and the goal this time is to be on all of the ballots in 2016.

Unfortunately, thanks to both of the corrupt parties, it's increasingly difficult for third party candidates to even GET on the ballot.

Because Dems and Reps believe in actual democracy.../sarcasm

When people actually listen to the actual policy positions and what she actually has to say and what she's done and stood for in her career as a physician, it's actually pretty compelling.

I mean, she didn't take fire in Bosnia or buy a beauty pageant...

She was on 37 state ballots in 2012. You are thinking of the libertarian party which was on 48 states ballots in 2012. I agree though its pretty shitty that its so hard for those parties to get ballot access.

[Celista]

Trump loves the low information voters. Will she and Trump split the low information vote then?

Claiming that Stein voters are low information voters is a ridiculous statement.

[Stonecloak]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGRo1mH2_8w

Kind of an interesting video. Guy seems like a Jill Stein supporter.

[Garnier Fructis]

When people actually listen to the actual policy positions and what she actually has to say and what she's done and stood for in her career as a physician, it's actually pretty compelling.

She spent like 3 paragraphs to flip flop on vaccines and homeopathy, when she should have simply condemned both in a single sentence, given her training as a doctor. That, combined with this horseshit from their party platform:

Chronic conditions are often best cured by alternative medicine. We support the teaching, funding and practice of holistic health approaches and, as appropriate, the use of complementary and alternative therapies such as herbal medicines, homeopathy, naturopathy, traditional Chinese medicine and other healing approaches.

wreck any credibility that her being a physician bring.

[Milchshake]

Claiming that Stein voters are low information voters is a ridiculous statement.

Are the Greens too high-minded to allow low information voters into their coalition? I'm starting to think there's some kind of purity test, or a secret handshake required to become a Jill Stein voter.

[Aoyi]

Jill Stein has some nice positions, but the fact that she's anti-gmo, doesn't believe that vaccines should be mandatory, and her party supports homeopathy are all things I can't get behind.

[BuckSparkles]

Yes, that's right, go ahead and split that left-wing voter base. Split it right down the middle.

I would find it delightful if dems lost due to party divide. They are supposed to be an unstoppable and unified unicorn party. At least that is what mainstream media suggests.

[Sorshen]

She seems a bit... delusional.

[Reg]

PlanB? So she wants her campaign aborted?