<quote name="Joshua Lutes" date="Thu, 19 Jun 2008 at 09:44 -0600"> > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Levi Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Voting for the viable candidate that you agree with most is what makes the > > most sense, whether you agree with them very much or not. > > > I always figured that you voted for the person you most agreed with > regardless of whether or not he was viable. Because one vote will make a > difference in only the rarest of occasions (and then in only a very limited > geographic region) a vote is more a marker of agreement than anything else. > It means that you like the ideas espoused by this man or this party. If the > third party gets enough votes their attracting ideas are stolen by the other > parties so that they can maintain their dominance. Voting for something I > disagree with seems like a stupid way to influence the government, since > even if it succeeds I'm not going to get what I want.
Thank you! > Anyway, the two parties are indistinguishable in practice, so it doesn't > even matter which of the two win. Better to use your vote to indicate your > opinion since it really isn't good for anything else. Thank you! I think you said it better than I have been able to. That's exactly the kind if thinking I'm trying to get across, I was just taking a different approach. Von Fugal
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