2016 Elections

[Anomalocaris]

I will repeat what I say in every election cycle: vote third-party. I don't care which one. Get off the two-party treadmill.

Me, it depends on who the Libertarians put up. If he's one of the classical Libertarians, I may not vote at all, or I may vote for Hillary and repent at leisure. If the Libertarians put up a neo-Lib, then he or she might well get my vote.

Entry cost of national electoral competitiveness is very steep and much more expensive than any third party can afford.  So third party will assuredly lose.

Furthermore,  any third party will likely take most of its votes from one of the other two parties that is closer to the third party in position.    By playing, the third party weakens not its worst ideological opponent, but it's closet ideological kindred, such as they are amongst the two main parties.   So in playing at all the third party will have but handed election advantage, and probably victory, to that major party from the two that is ideologically furthest from the third party.

So vote for the third party promising to bring the country closest to the path you wish it to traverse, and you have have contributed materially to ensuring the country will steer a course further from the path you would wish it to traverse.

The Republican Party could not possible do more to assure its own continued electoral advantage than to subsidize a progressive third party that would draw votes away from the democrats.