Wait are you legitimately claiming that both sides rhetoric doesn’t discourage voter turn out? Do you have literally any evidence to support that claim?
I don’t know about ‘discourage’ since I was referring to protest 3rd party votes. But too many people didn’t even know Biden dropped out to suggest the rhetoric was causing meaningful influence.
Now, I do know that RFK and Chase Oliver together took more votes (~0.9%) than the Greens and PSL combined (~0.7%). So as far as protest votes over Both-Sideism likely went it probably didn’t hurt Harris, and may have actually been a net gain for Harris.
The entire combined third party vote would have had to pretty much 100% gone for Harris for the Democratic Party to have won the popular vote (which is still irrelevant because of the electoral college.)
Wait are you legitimately claiming that both sides rhetoric doesn’t discourage voter turn out? Do you have literally any evidence to support that claim?
I don’t know about ‘discourage’ since I was referring to protest 3rd party votes. But too many people didn’t even know Biden dropped out to suggest the rhetoric was causing meaningful influence.
Now, I do know that RFK and Chase Oliver together took more votes (~0.9%) than the Greens and PSL combined (~0.7%). So as far as protest votes over Both-Sideism likely went it probably didn’t hurt Harris, and may have actually been a net gain for Harris.
The entire combined third party vote would have had to pretty much 100% gone for Harris for the Democratic Party to have won the popular vote (which is still irrelevant because of the electoral college.)