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Originally Posted by JinnKai
Shani, your coworker is an idiot. You don't vote for a party just so your party "wins" over the party. You vote for the candidate who best represents you.
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No, thats what you vote for, not everyone. The problem with party politics is that by voting for an individual you are in fact voting for that party in pretty much everything.
Its quite possible, though getting rarer, that you may well like an individual and still its in your best interest politically to vote against them since you don't like their party.
Imagine if you have one good senate candidate and a poor one. The poor one is from the party you most identify with. If you vote for that good one because you like them, and that means that the senate is now in the other parties hands, you have in fact voted to make that parties policy dominant, even if the guy you voted for was moderate.
The reality is that party politics trump everything currently.