(jcwren) RE: Voting Help in the US

The problem is that while many of the third party candidates (which is really a misnomer, since we're NOT a two party system) look good to many people, they think they're "throwing away their vote". The ONLY time you're throwing away your vote is when you don't vote. If all the people who would supposedly vote third party actually did, Harry Brown would be in office already.

--Chris

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RE: (jcwren) RE: Voting Help in the US by turnstep (Parson) on Oct 20, 2000 at 19:52 UTC
I noticed that Mr. Gore and Mr. Bush are at the top of their polls - which makes sense, as there are ideas are very generic and trying to appeal to a large majority of people. The other candidates tend to have sharper ideas, so one or more is likely to "clash" with yours a form a less-perfect "fit." Interestingly enough, although the top two are Democrat and Republican, the combined third party tallies whips them both. Perhaps if the third party system wasn't so splintered... We need a "geek-techno" party in this nation. Someone who can actually understand the Internet and maybe even write a Perl script. :)	[reply]
RE: (jcwren) RE: Voting Help in the US by OzzyOsbourne (Chaplain) on Oct 20, 2000 at 19:34 UTC
...which is really a misnomer, since we're NOT a two party system When only 2 parties get into the TV debates, we are a 2 party system. When the smaller guys have equal access to the media, I will reconsider. I would love a 13+ party system, myself... -OzzyOsbourne	[reply]