No, third parties like in 2000 and in 16 took away the Dems chances for victory, that's the fact.
Why were those elections so close anyway? And why were many likely Democratic voters so willing to cast their vote for a third party? Obviously, it was because the Democratic candidate was uninspiring.
You know, i would be ok with this if this election had been Rubio vs Clinton or Jeb vs Clinton. But this excuse doesn't fly when the GOP nominee is Donald ****ing Trump.
You can thank the Hiillary campaign and the DNC for elevating "pied piper" Donald Trump.
I'm not sure that helping to hype Trump would have been *that* bad an idea, IF Hillary had either been able to present herself as a average-quality candidate, or if she'd helmed an average campaign. When she turned out poorly as both and candidate and campaigner, and Trump stole the GOP's crop of the desperate and the foolish to found his own little cult, it all went to pieces.
