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Originally posted by gnort
The Green party has no official candidate yet.
As for the "a vote for a 3rd party is a vote for Bush" idea...the whole point of voting for a 3rd party candidate isnt to get elected at first. Right now voting for a 3rd party is to try and help the party get 5% of the vote thus giving them federal funding in the next election. This will solidify that party as a major political party. Voting for a 3rd party is a vote to try and eliminate the two party system that we've had to deal with for so long. But anyways, that's what i have to say...
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That's not why I vote 3rd party -- I think that the two-party system is so well established in the US that no third-party will ever solidify for a lasting time.
I vote 3rd party because I hope that one of the two parties will eventually notice that a lot of people who could be voting for them are throwing away their votes, and if they change some of their positions to match those espoused by the 3rd/4th/5th party they could win them over.