-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:01:00AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > and at this time pick from the Big Two to avoid "throwing away" your > vote.
I was with you up until you said this. How does this change anything? The general election is the one that counts. The only time you throw away your vote is if you vote for what you believe to be a lesser candidate and try to justify it by saying you're throwing your vote away otherwise. That is exactly the kind of thinking that perpetuates America's binary political system. > You've still done what you've set out to do; get your 3rd-party some > name recognition by putting them on the ballot. Two serious problems with that: 1) "Third parties" already get on the general ballot. Claiming victory when they get to this point instead of backing them up through the general elections is counterproductive. 2) Not all parties hold primaries. I know the Socialist Party (at least locally) doesn't hold primaries unless there's more than one candidate running for the same office. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/0TOfUzgNqloQMwcRAmG6AKDRzWbofGg6HirOXKCjYfiVH+ivWQCglBdD +j5m97TUW7WDEpEhqHYclgo= =NxHG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
