<div dir="ltr">Well Put!<br><br>Personally I think everyone should vote for Third parties (your choice) this year as a "were tired of the same old BS in washington" vote.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Angelo Bertolli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:angelo@freeshell.org">angelo@freeshell.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">Collins Richey wrote:<br>
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On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Richard Knechtel<br>
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Well, Ross Perot is good at Pie and Bar graph charts that's all I had seen<br>
he was good with. I remember back when a third party candidate actually got<br>
to be in the debates. All Perot did was flash charts and graphs, he wasn't<br>
saying anything we didn't already know - just like all the other candidates.<br>
None of them offered solutions...<br>
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Certainly, but his graphs and pie charts drew enough votes to elect<br>
Clinton. My point is that any 3rd party candidate can only skew the<br>
election results in favor of one of the major candidates. You could<br>
say that Ralph Nader elected George Bush.<br>
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I have to speak out against this philosophy.<br>
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It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. People should be taught to vote for who they want instead of told that "a vote for X is a vote for Y." Sorry, but that's only true because the two parties have convinced everyone of that. A vote for Ron Paul is a vote for Ron Paul, period. So if you like Ron Paul and think he would be the best president, you should vote for him. Same goes for Nader.<br>
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But everyone is so afraid of "throwing away" their votes that of course those of us who actually have the courage to do something different never get a chance. Just vote for who you want, ok? At least if your "second best" party loses, it'll make them take your issues more seriously next time.<br>
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