14th November 2007, 4:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 14th November 2007, 5:54 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
ABF and I have discussed that very thing ASM. ABF's point is that voting for who you want even if you are pretty sure very few others are could potentially result in another Nader incident. My point is that while that is a potential risk, it is worth it when the consequences of voting "strategically" instead of for who you want are so much higher, and are also to blame for the "Nader incident". Incidentally I didn't vote Nader, I just hate the argument that voting for an unpopular candidate is "throwing your vote away" because that's sort of a catch 22 situation there. Of course they'll be unpopular if everyone is convinced they shouldn't bother voting for them. Rather if they are going to be unpopular it should be because the majority just disagree with their positions. Oh, incidentally I have no party affiliation. Not really my thing, and I think it's a mistake to swear allegiance to such things as stuff like maybe the entire party more or less drastically changing to reflect entirely new views you never signed up for can occur, but "party loyalty" drags you along to vote for their side, unilaterally, anyway.
"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)