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Originally Posted by mbaha
No, votes for wacky write in people tend to take votes away from Kerry. It is a little late to start supporting someone with NO chance of even showing up on the board. If you want to support wacky person X from party Y that will never have support from more than 5% of the population do it BEFORE the primaries. Right now there is only TWO choices from president DEAL with it. Hope it goes better for you in 4 years.
mbaha
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um, did you read ANYTHING in this thread so far? Explain to me how, when the majority of Libertarians are former republicans or republican leaners who dislike the current republican party's social and economic agendas, they take away votes from Kerry by voting for Badnarik instead of Bush. Explain to me how my friend, who was not going to vote at all since he dislikes both candidates, voting for a third party candidate who he actually respects is hurting Kerry when he wasn't going to vote for him anyway. Lastly, these are not "wacky write in people" by any means. Badnarik is on the ballot in 48 states + DC. Do you have ANY idea how many signatures it takes to accomplish that? But, when it comes down to ACTUAL write-ins, I STILL don't understand how you can say they're taking away votes from Kerry. Most write in candidates are essentially protest votes, expressing distaste for the candidates presented, such as my roommate who will be writing in Marx/Engels as a statement.
As for supporting candidates before primaries, you are aware that the candidates running in third parties DON'T PARTICIPATE in those correct? Third parties have their own selection process, and people have been supporting Badnarik, for example, just as long as they have been supporting Bush or Kerry. Furthermore, many states require you to register with a party to vote in their primary. Well, there's a reason I'm voting third party - I DON'T LIKE EITHER PARTY. Why would I register with one of them so I could vote in their primary and get a candidate whom I still don't like?