Jill Stein: Democratic Spoiler Or Scapegoat?

A FiveThirtyEight Chat, FiveThirtyEight: Politics
Wed, 12/07/2016 - 4:28am

In this week’s politics chat, we check in on the Democrats’ search for someone to blame 2016 on. The transcript below has been lightly edited.micah (Micah Cohen, politics editor): Today, we’re looking for scapegoats. Or, more accurately, we’re talking about the Democrats’ search for a scapegoat to pin Donald Trump’s win over Hillary Clinton on.

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