RE: Protest Voting
October 16, 2020 at 11:58 am
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2020 at 12:10 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(October 15, 2020 at 8:05 am)ignoramus Wrote: The situation is so dire that anyone in the US who doesn't vote for Mao Ze Biden is sadly voting for Trump. That's how it works. Pick one. By not picking Biden, or not voting, you automatically endorse Trump.
This ignores the fact that 48 of the 50 states have winner-take-all allocations for their EC delegation. If you're in California or Georgia, voting third-party is not at all a vote for the party standard-bearer, because those states overwhelmingly vote one party or the other regularly. There are plenty of states like those two.
In 2016, I voted for Gary Johnson, not because I thought he had a chance of winning, but because he was the least of the evils presented on my ballot and I didn't want to add a vote to either major party. Before I did that, I scanned the polls regularly (RCP being my main source), and decided my vote when I saw that Trump had a 750,000-vote lead here in Texas.
Under these circumstances no one can say I helped elect Trump, because a Clinton vote from me would not have made a difference anyone. At that point, a protest vote made sense to me.
Now back into obscurity for me ...
