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2012 Election
ackblom12:
If the Green Party would stop being douchenozzles about participating in local elections and campaigning, I'd consider registering as Green. As it is, I'm sticking with Independent who tends to vote Democrat for practicality reasons and Green when I think it can be spared and/or it's local.
lepetitfromage:
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.
Lines:
After what happened with Nader in the Bush/Gore elections...yeah. I kind of agree with you on that one.
I don't think I've ever seen a local Green candidate. I wish there would be, though, because Cincinnati is a mess.
ackblom12:
We had 3 or 4 Greens running for various local and state positions, but the Green Party spends next to no money on campaigning, instead opting to spend all of their campaign money on the useless presidential campaign. They need to start with local work, senate seats and go from there, they aren't going to have any long term impact outside of "that crazy commie party" otherwise. It hasn't worked for them yet and it's going to continue not working for them.
Papersatan:
You vote for a third party is not thrown out if you live in a state which has no chance of swinging, but if you live in a state where the margin is small, a vote for a third party is a vote from one of the big two.
This year I voted for two green party members for school board. They both lost. One of them was also a socialist, so I knew he had no hope of winning. When your homepage says you support free education for everyone that wants it, including college and post-grad all people here is "I want to raise taxes" not that as a member of the school board he would have had that power anyways. The non socialist one actually got 2.25% of the vote though.
I also voted for a libertarian for county prosecutor. I figure a person whose political believes question the right of the government to lock people up is a much better prosecutor than one who brags that they have a "98%" conviction rate. If you are convicting that many people, the system is broken. Some people are supposed to be found innocent. If you had a district where 100% of the people in court were guilty then that would be a pat on the back for the police, not the prosecutor. The libertarian got over 15% of the vote, which I was shocked by. He only had one opponent though.
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