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Johnson brings 15% and Stein perhaps 3%. The Johnson supporters are perhaps 1/6th disillusioned former Sander supporters, according to surveys, so he can bring perhaps bring 12 or 13%, and with the Stein votes, that would be about 15%. Sanders got 43% (as rigged) of the Democratic vote, so he could bring nearly half the HRC vote, or perhaps a 20% percentage from Clinton, who is being supported by millions who supported Sanders and are now holding their noses. Add some votes from the Trump camp, as many Sanders supporters migrated to Trump in their disgust at Clinton. I think it all adds up to between 35-40%, not counting those who would support Sanders/Stein because "people like to support winners.).
Add the up and you get more than 35%. That leaves 65% for Trump and Clinton to split, so if the current gap held, Trump would have about 32 and Clinton would have 33! And this is before the full exposure of this ticket, which is loaded with candidates with high approval and likability levels....We can assume Stein and Johnson would gain in the debates as well.
Gary Johnson, who come bearing the gift of 15% in the polls, will be offered the VP slot, hard to turn down since he would be first in line to be the most powerful leader in the world with the oldest President ever elected. Sanders might remind him that recreational marijuana is now legal in DC as an enticement).
Sanders/Johnson 2016
Stein/ ? 2020
Johnson, whose foreign policy is non-interventionist in synch with the the Green Party ( and arguably to the left of Sanders), would be without any real power unless the President dies. Stein , as Secy of State, will have the most critical cabinet post, and it would set her up to run in 2020.
Add to that the fact that people withdraw support from those they think have no chance of winning..................but would come over to Sanders/Stein (so disliked are the two candidates by many reluctantly supporting him, including 80% of the Bernie voters (ie 10 million) who would likely come back to Bernie if the numbers added up.
So we have then a 3 way race,a revolutionary moment in which the duopoly, which is funded by the 1%, is on the chopping black. Now the American people have a choice that does not involve deciding who is most dishonest,most unlikable and voting against that candidate. I think more than a few percent would support the Green-Libertarian ticket once they see it could win.
Clinton or Trump can go down and open the door for such an alliance, or a few phone calls can begin the whole process with nothing more than a press conference to announce the alliance. Immediately, the Sanders/Stein/Johnson ticket will get into the debates. And that will garner even more support. The more Sanders looks like he could win, the more support he will have.
I think Sanders,if he takes up Stein's offer to run, can win, based on the electoral math (I am looking into that) as well as raw numbers.
I submit that this Sanders/Stein/Johnson ticket ,(which has had some quiet currency) presents 3 or 4 different ways the door can open (from Clinton dropping dead to a phone call to Sanders and Johnson by Jill Stein, saying: " It's time! Let's go. The revolution is about to explode!"
This would not only give us our most talented candidates with fresh ideas and untainted by corruption, but it would put an stake into the rotting but still breathing heart of duopoly/oligarchy. This would be the beginning of the end for the bloodsuckers who have run the show. It would be a political revolution with consequences (such as an all progressive cabinet) we can hardly imagine. A Sanders/Johnson victory would also pull along many progressives (and Llbs) downstream, giving the new President a Congress he can work with in a nation undergoing fundamental change.
Such scenarios are all possible, and the 4th, the phone option, is a matter of choice. This alliance would blow apart the two-party system and the corrupt political system it guards. It would be a true black swan, coming out of the blue, and it is impossible to predict the consequences....which is why people fear change. But the Progressive movement is about change, progress, trying something new when the old systems have failed and only live on as vampires.
If you agree, get to work to put the pressure on Stein and Sanders to bring forth the September surprise; if you do not think that such an alliance is possible, please explain why.
What have we got to lose except our chains?
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