Sorry if this has been brought up and I missed it.
I think Jill Stein pulled a brilliant move. For her.
At first I thought it was just about the money. But now i think she has started a 2020 campaign way early and has already gotten more pubicity and name recognition that she has ever gotten before. She could have never raised enough money for all of this free "ad time."
I think she is positioning herself to be Bernie Sanders in 2020.
So she'll go from 3% of the vote to 3.8%?
Bernie's movement was largely a myth. a large portion of his supporters don't even vote, they're just loud. The media gave him a free pass because they knew he had no shot.
Make him the nominee, and allow the uninformed to understand who he really is, and he would have been buried far worse than Clinton. If the Dems really thought he could win, they wouldn't have sabotaged his campaign. As we saw with him backing hillary, he's another corrupt politician, he just happens to have a semi-populist message. A true populist would never endorse an elitist free trade career corrupt politician like Hillary.
If he ever had the media eye on him for even a second, he'd fall hard. The guy's socialist views have no merit. He couldn't fund 1/10th of his vision.
So Stein can go ahead and take the Bernie vote, it won't do her any good.