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“It will probably be the most important vote you ever cast. This election is more than just a choice between two parties and two different candidates. It is a choice about whether we have a country rooted in freedom for every American or ruled by chaos and division,” said Kamala Harris.
“One of the most common reasons people don’t vote is that they think their vote won’t matter. That it’ll be lost in a sea of millions of votes. Over the past 21 years of doing a daily nationwide radio program, Thom Hartmann has heard this excuse at least a few thousand times. But it’s wrong: In reality, when people think like this, they have their math upside down. Elections aren’t additive or subtractive: They’re comparative. That’s literally the whole point of an election.” — The New Republic
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Hillary Clinton lost Wisconsin to Trump by 22,748 votes; Jill Stein carried 31,072 votes. In Michigan the story that year was similar: Clinton lost to Donald Trump by 10,704 votes, while Stein carried 51,463. Ditto for Pennsylvania, where Trump won by 44,292 votes and Stein pulled in 49,941 votes.
This is why, as The Washington Post noted last week, a Republican group in Wisconsin has spent nearly a million dollars promoting Stein in that state: “A super PAC with Republican Party ties has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent days to support the Green Party presidential candidacy of Jill Stein in Wisconsin, in another sign that the supporters of the major parties believe her campaign could affect the election result.” — Thom Hartmann in The New Republic
TakeAway: Vote for Kamala Harris and Democrats to protect Dreamers.
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