Because quite frankly she's an idiot.

Well I am not an American but I support Stein much more than Clinton's neoliberalism which is failing the world. The thing is the electoral system (First past the post) is not conductive to a multiple candidate race. I am sure if America used Instant Runoff Voting or Approval voting, then third party candidates would get a better reception. I hope after the election (with a Clinton win hopefully), Stein, Johnson and other aspiring parties push for electoral reform in a signifcant way. That should be their #1 priority.

Anyway, if I had a vote, I would prob go Clinton in tossups/Swing state but vote Stein in a solid state.

She is, quite frankly, a laughingstock with her anti-vaccine, wi-fi-causes-cancer nonsense (and this from a trained medical practitioner!). Add on that she has absolutely no party to support her if—god forbid—she did win the election, and throw in her suspicious ties to Russia for good measure... On top of all that, there's the fact that she's pointlessly siphoning votes off of Clinton, which only serves to benefit Trump... Why would I want to support her? Why would I want anyone else to support her?

There's way too much at stake to waste a protest vote on this sham of a third party candidate.

Because she sucks.

Why would we vote for someone that literally has no chance at winning?

And EVEN if Hillary and Donald both died before the election and she somehow managed to beat Gary Johnson and Harambe in the election she'd be the only Green Party candidate in Washington. Both the democrats and republicans in the House and Senate would pay all of her radical ideas absolute dust and literally nothing she proposes will get through Congress. I mean Obama is barely getting his legislation through and he's a Democrat. Can you imagine Jill Stein trying to pass a bill to gut the military?

shes a media socialite, no better than kim kardashian. why take her seriously

Green Party has always been a non-event sis.

wait, for real?

#JillSteinIsOverParty

I didn't know she was that extra, I just thought she was an underdog in this election

If third parties get 5% of the vote they get public funding, which helps break the 2-party system in the US: http://www.fec.gov/press/bkgnd/fund.shtml

So like, if you're not in a swing state you may as well vote third party.

Because she's just not going to win. She's currently polling in the low single digits nationally, she won't be included in the debates (at least not the first one), and she's on 44/50 state ballots. It's far too close to the election for her to start gaining ground in the polls.

Pretty much every third party candidate is at a disadvantage, even the most popular ones. Take Ross Perot for example - an independent candidate who ran in 1992 and 96. In March of 1992, eight months before the election, he was polling at 21% - 14 points behind Clinton, 16 points behind Bush. He went on to win nearly 20 million votes in the general election and still won zero electoral votes.

Let's compare this to Stein. Eight months before the 1992 election, Perot had 21% support - and went on to win zero electoral votes. It's less than two months before the 2016 election, and a poll released today shows Stein having 4% support. Guess how many electoral votes she'll end up winning.

Not only that, but she's really not qualified to be president. One of my many issues with Trump is that he's incompetent, because he has no political experience. The same can basically be said for Stein. The only experience she's had is being a member of Lexington, MA's city legislature. I would be uncomfortable with either of them being commander in chief and dealing firsthand with other nations with such little prior experience. Hillary, on the other hand, was Secretary of State. Whether you agree with her politics or not, she undeniably has actual foreign policy experience. Being a member of your city's council doesn't prepare you to be President like being Secretary of State does.

And she's also losing to Harambe in the polls.

The better question is why is she polling lower than a dead gorilla?

I actually agree with Strategic votings in states like California and New York thats clearly voting blue, but I live in a swing state so aint no body got time to be wasting votes.

1.) She's not a good candidate. Ideally the Green Party would be my next best vote after Bernie but:
2.) She's an idiot frankly. Her anti-vaccine and anti-Wifi comments were only just a couple of the things that were off with her. And the fact that she says Clinton is worse than Trump just reek of white/straight privilege to me.
3.) Her VP. Enough said.
4.) She's too attention seeking. While I admire what she did at #NoDAPL I can't help but feel it was... nongenuine considering that she wrote "I endorse this message"
5.) I believe she's less experienced than Trump to run the country.
6.) The Green Party have no political infrastructure. They put all their eggs into the Presidental races but rarely anywhere else. You can't even vote for Jill in some states unlike Gary Johnson
You could point out some more left-leaning Democrats in Congress but really you don't get many people left of Hillary.
7.) The "far-left" seems to value class over race.


Well that's some of my reasoning. In a three-way race where Jill actually have a shot at the presidency I'd still be voting for Hillary despite my leaning toward Green.

didn't she once say that wi-fi causes kids to become mentally handicapped

she's creepy

I actually like her, but they need to build more on local government.

This is basically it. See for yourself the lemmings in this thread, as they're not altogether unrepresentative of American "liberals" (read: progressive to a point and only in concept, very seldom in practice): mindlessly parroting the debunked anti-vax libel, refusing to acknowledge the depths of Clinton's shortcomings as well as the importance of avoiding political dynasties, conveniently forgetting that the Green Party has participated at all local and national levels of government and elections, has been active supporters of marginalized people (LGBTQ, Native/Black/Brown) and that the opinions of a minority don't undermine the progressiveness of the whole, and essentially ignoring the rampant inadequacies and corruption within the Democratic Party… anyone with a conscience knows that Stein isn't perfect but the Green New Deal she is championing in addition to the stances she takes on myriad justice issues makes her a far better candidate than both Trump and Clinton (both of whom espouse human rights abuses abroad and at home).

The DNC proved it is beyond repair with its collusion against Sanders as well as its refusal to support the Black Lives Matter movement with substantive legislative change. The two party duopoly stifles "third" party participation and people suffer as a result.

Actually, upon further reflection, I think ATRL is a fair representation of American liberals; just look at the comments in BLM-related and other threads lol. Internalized racism and misogyny run rampant here but confront anyone about it and they'll resort to the usual "what is this SJW bs" logic.