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Originally Posted by politicophile
There's no point in voting for a candidate that you know will lose when you have a stake in which main-party candidate wins. If the race is at all close, I probably would prefer the Republican over the Democrat. And since the libertarian is going to lose anyway, why would I waste my vote?
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First of all,
NO vote, that is cast, is a "wasted" vote.
Second of all, why do you "
know" that the Libertarian is going to loose? Simply because they always have? I have heard over and over and over again that "Well, I'd have voted for Badnarik...if I thought that he had a chance to win.". Seems to me, that perhaps, just perhaps, if everyone had voted their true conscience, and how they truly believed, then Badnarik may have actually made quite a respectable showing.
That's kind of high schoolish, isn't it. "Well, I know that the "band geek" would make a much better student council president than the "jock", that he's running against, but he doesn't stand a chance of actually winning. Ahh, I'll just vote for the "jock" because everyone else is."
/me steps off of the Libertarian soapbox.