It’s easy to see why people point the finger at third-party votes. In Michigan, where the election was so close that the Associated Press still hasn’t called the result, Trump is ahead by about 12,000 votes. That’s significantly less than the 242,867 votes that went to third-party candidates in Michigan. It’s a similar story elsewhere: third-party candidates won more total votes than the Trump’s margin of victory in Wisconsin, Arizona, North Carolina and Florida. Without those states, Trump would not have won the presidency.
(An aside: while looking for articles using duckduckgo, an “AI” gave me a breakdown, and I hate it. Wtf DDG, you too?)
Yeah. For now at least. Is it their own bot, or are they using the same one as the company they get search results from? I forget if it’s Google or Bing.
Here’s an article from after the 2016 election about Stein and third parties impact. I think it’s interesting and good practice to compare the current moments with the past.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/10/third-party-candidate-gary-johnson-jill-stein-clinton-loss
(An aside: while looking for articles using duckduckgo, an “AI” gave me a breakdown, and I hate it. Wtf DDG, you too?)
Yeah I was disappointed by DDG when I first saw their AI crap, but fortunately they let you turn it off completely.
Yeah. For now at least. Is it their own bot, or are they using the same one as the company they get search results from? I forget if it’s Google or Bing.
They say they provide “anonymous access to popular AI models, including GPT-4o mini, Claude 3, and open-source Llama 3.1 and Mixtral”
So it seems to be a bit of everything.
Interesting. Thanks