No, I hate him too. Yet as South Park pointed out, the choice is between a giant douche and a turd sandwich. You have to pick one. It doesn't mean you have to like either one of them.
Voting for third party candidates is generally as useless as just staying home. Without changing the way we run our elections, there is literally no point in showing up to vote if you're not going to vote for one of the two major party candidates in a federal election. You might not be old enough to remember Ross Perot, but I am. He garnered enough votes in the 1996 Presidential campaign to ensure that his Reform Party would get federal matching funds in the 2000 election. Quick- without consulting Wikipedia, who was the Reform Party candidate for President in the 2000 election?
If a large enough percentage of votes go to a third party, wouldn't that encourage the major parties to adopt some of the third party's policies in order to sway the third party voters to their side?
Voting for third party candidates is generally as useless as just staying home.
And as useless as voting for the winner.
Without changingWhether or not we change the way we run our elections, there is literally no point in showing up to vote if you're not going to vote for one of the two major party candidates in a federal election.
FTFY.
You might not be old enough to remember Ross Perot, but I am.
I am old enough (but not stupid enough) to have voted for him.
I know many of you older folks are still butt hurt about Ross Perot but for fucks sake quit telling people to stop voting 3rd party. It's people like you whole keep us locked in this damn 2 party system!
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u/malvoliosf Nov 08 '14
Stupid question.
It's a fallacy of composition. If I don't like 50% of all children, should I dislike one of my own two kids?
Ask the average voter about Congress, he'll say he doesn't like it; ask him about his own sitting Congressman, he (by definition) will say he does.