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2012 Election
mustang6172:
--- Quote from: lepetitfromage on 07 Nov 2012, 12:11 ---The quiz suggested that I vote for Stein, but Obama got my vote because, well.....as much as I hate to think so, any vote for a third party might as well be a vote thrown out the window at this point. :-\
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 07 Nov 2012, 11:40 ---You were still asked for an ID at the poll.....
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I wasn't.....granted, they did the signature thing but yeah. No ID.
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I too was trying to decide between Obama and Stein. I went with Obama because after Hurricane Sandy, I was wondering how well Stein would handle a natural disaster having less experience in the public sector.
Despite living in a swing state, I didn’t care so much about helping Obama win. I figured what are the chances my one vote would get Romney elected by accident.
Is it cold in here?:
How many other people were making the same calculation about whether their vote would matter? Betcha enough that their cumulative votes mattered.
pwhodges:
"Tactical voting" we call it - and it can be tricky to decide how to play it. I have never been in a position where there would have been any benefit from voting for someone other than the person I wanted to vote for.
Is it cold in here?:
http://www.amazon.com/Gaming-Vote-Elections-Arent-About/dp/B002SB8OMA/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352452203&sr=1-1&keywords=gaming+the+vote+why+elections+aren%27t+fair+and+what+we+can+do+about+it
It's a thoroughly interesting and well-researched book that I recommend to any politically oriented nerd.
Akima:
With our transferrable-vote system, tactical voting is a way of life. It is common for the person the voters disliked least to get elected rather than the one who gets the largest share of the votes in the first round. This is supposed to discourage extremism, because would-be MPs have to pick up "second preferences" from people who voted for someone else in the first round. I don't have to bother though, because I live in an district where the Coalition could put up dead wombats and they would get elected.
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