COMM 12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Vote Pairing, Stop Trump Movement
18 May 2018
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Vote swapping
● New Jersey = Democratic state, Safe state
○ Feels that it is “solid blue” and that his vote does not matter
● Any third party needs 5%
● Vote swapping
○ Use by dems and repubs who want to defeat trump
● PA = third party (battle ground state)
○ Wants to vote for Stein, voted for Clinton to help NJ
● NJ = safe state
○ Wants to vote for Clinton helped PA, voted for Stein to help
● Many websites and groups
○ Never trump
■ 10K users
● CA = safe state
● At the end of the day → representation is most important for 3rd party
● 2007 = Protected Free Speech
○ No monetary value
