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The only person in America who thinks that votes for Nader DON'T take away votes from Kerry is Nader.
Face it, folks. As long as we have a winner-take-all system of government, a third party will never be more than a spoiler. The reason they work in other countries is that seats in Parliament are apportioned based on percentage of vote won. In our system, guess what the guy who doesn't get to 270 electoral votes gets? Zip. Zero. Nada.
edit: added the don't, haha...
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Last edited by Sparhawk; 07-25-2004 at 07:04 PM..
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