Obama, Romney Campaigns Duck Future U.S. Role In Afghanistan War
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Voting for a canditate with no chance of winning isn't the solution.
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Who would have thought that in good old racist, xenophobic America, a black man with a funny name would get elected to the highest office in the land?
This "no chance of winning" nonsense is a canard. If enough people vote for a third party candidate, he or she wins. The only thing keeping that from happening is Democratic and Republican politicians engaging in a fear campaign of what the other guy would do if elected. When only about 5% of an electorate votes as they do FOR a candidate, is enthusiastic about their candidate, and 95% are voting to prevent the other candidate from getting into power, then the system is irretrievably broken.
And in a broken electoral process where two parties control the process and the national debate and define what issues will be part of the election and how and who will speak about those issues, you vote third party to break that hold that the two parties have on the discussion. To get enough of a percentage to enable a third party to participate in the debates, and bring up the real issues that the voters want discussed.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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