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Originally posted by SecretMethod70
There's no such thing as a wasted vote. Voting one's conscience regarding who has the best ideas, and not who is more likely to win - that's a noble thing to do IMO.
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Hm, I dunno, it really is a wasted vote. Maybe if the other parties had more influence in this country the vote for someone other than republican/democrat would hold water, but until then.. it really is wasted.
Yes, the choice is there and that's good, but really now.. do you honestly think a good portion of people who vote would even REMOTELY consider the other party? *You* might, but most others.. nah.
Just look at Nader in the 2000 elections. Didn't even remotely come close.. not by a long shot.
As it stands now, anyone voting for something other than dem/rep is just tossing a vote away on someone who won't win. That, to me, is a wasted vote.
Bush is in office.. so if you don't like Bush, do NOT vote for a third party because if it's a close election like 2000's, those votes could actually be used to help determine the outcome.
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Take, for example, the 2000 election results (found here:
http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/2000presgeresults.htm). NY had mainly 6.5 million voters between Bush and Gore vs. the 310,000 between the others.. that's 4%. The ratios really don't stray far from that number for the other states.
The other parties need to work on gaining much much more influence in the political world before even remotely deciding to run for pres, IMO.