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03 Sep 2016, 2:04 am

sly279 wrote:
envirozentinel wrote:
So would mine! Luckily I'm not in the US so don't have to make a choice.

Why are Americans so scared of voting for 3rd party candidates?

Because the secretly appointed electoral college people won't vote 3rd party. We the people(popular vote) don't actually account for anything. From what I've learned the EC people are appointed in advance and commit to who they will vote for long before we go to the ballots.


No sh*t, a third party has no chance really...so I suppose it's more making a stand isn't it. I'd assume just write in No One or Cthulhu this election is a joke anyways. Granted not a very funny one.


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03 Sep 2016, 2:23 am

envirozentinel wrote:
So would mine! Luckily I'm not in the US so don't have to make a choice. Why are Americans so scared of voting for 3rd party candidates?

best example is the widespread perception that it takes away votes from the lesser of two evils and facilitates a default win by the greater of two evils, like nader [denying gore needed votes] swinging the election to bush in 2000, perot denying bush I needed votes] for Clinton in 1992, etc.