The Weaver Family

I’ve heard more than one person say that voting for anyone outside of the Democratic or Republican Parties was basically throwing away your vote because no individual Third Party can win.

I’ve heard more than one person saying they were voting Democratic or Republican because it is the lesser of the two evils presented, whether they saw the Democratic or Republican parties as the bigger threat.

So from what I see from these two statements is that there are quite a view people who are going to vote for either party, not because they necessarily agree with whom they are voting for, but because they see the opposite choice as a bigger threat. And that’s fine as far as it goes.

But if there are a bunch of people doing this, doesn’t it follow that those voting for the lesser of two evils are cancelling out each other’s votes? So you got one person voting Democrat (lesser evil in their opinion) and one voting Republican (lesser evil in their opinion); their votes cancel each other. And this will happen over and over and over again on Election Day.

Talk about throwing away your vote. Voting not for the good of the country but the lesser of two evils. Read the rest of this entry »

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