…after reading the leaked emails by wikileaks or after Comey announced the continued investigation Hillary’s email on a laptop found in Anthony Weiner’s house?
No, but I think you’re polling the wrong audience, since anybody reading the “Elections” forum on the SDMB a month after the election is likely to be very into politics. People who are very into politics are not usually swing voters.
My vote was *against *Trump. That would never change.
My vote was 3rd party before, and my vote was 3rd party afterwards.
I doubt that these revelations changed substantial numbers of votes. They surely had a bigger effect on undecided voters, though most undecided voters wouldn’t point to any single event as a game-changer for them.
I sent my vote by mail before the Comey announcement, so there wasn’t any chance of changing it, but I still would have voted for Clinton anyway.
What cochrane just said.
It’s not just about votes changing but also possible effects on discouraging one group from voting at all or encouraging another group to make it out to the polls.
Nope. “None of these clowns” was the only reasonable choice I could conceive of.
No, I planned to vote third part, and as the campaign went on, all the new information that came out only made it easier to do so.
That said, of everyone I spoke to, which was a fair number on both sides, I don’t know anyone whose vote was affected by those revelations. People who were Clinton supporters saw it as a last ditch effort to discredit her and steal the election. People who were Trump supporters saw it as further affirmation of her corruption and why it was important to redouble their efforts to keep her out of office.
Really, from an external perspective from the two parties, it really was kind of fascinating to see how everything that came out about each candidate that was branded as the final nail in the coffin of one of the major party candidate’s campaigns was either seen as a baseless and desperate attack by their supporters or even seen as a positive by them. I’m sure in the years to come when things have settled down, it’ll be an interesting case study in cognitive biases, rhetoric, and particularly the social media impact on public opinion.
It didn’t change my mind, but I am confident that it did change some peoples’ minds, because there have always been people who make important decisions based on emotions of the moment.