26th March 2003, 8:40 PM
Um, what? How on Earth is voting for a 3rd party voting "republican" any more than voting 3rd also voting "democrat"? There's no logic there. You seem to think everyone voting for Green would CERTAINLY have voted Democrat otherwise. That's just silly talk, and it's things like that (republicans make the same stupid comments about voting for other people, party or no, with their whole "throw your vote away" campaigns in the past) that keep this ridiculous party thing going. As far as I'm concerned, they ARE the same grouping, fighting together for the cause of keeping themselves the only choices.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)