karl_popper_fan asked:
Or should you ONLY vote for a candidate with a realistic chance of winning even if that candidate doesn’t share many of your political and economic views?
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Always, always vote YOUR view, not the view of the masses.
You should vote on principal. It is what you believe in. Why would someone go with someone who has a chance of winning? Especially when a candidates popularity isnt necessarily due to good political reasons or based on anyones principals? So yes, you should vote on principal even if it means voting 3rd party.
I think you should vote your principles or they will never get elected.
I wonder how much better our presidents might have been these last few elections if EVERYONE had voted on principle?
You should vote on principle ESP if its a 3rd Party.
Otherwise, we are always going to be stuck with 2 parties….
I fully believe that you should vote for the person that you think is the best candidate…even if they represent a 3rd Party. Even if your candidate doesn’t win, you made your statement.
Vote however you want, for whatever reason you want. Vote on principle, vote so that the lesser of two evils is elected, vote because your dog told you to, whatever. They’re all valid (though not necessarily equally valid) reasons.
I very rarely see a candidate at any level who shares my views, but I all to often see candidates who diametrically oppose them, the best way to vote is to keep the most objectionable candidate from winning, not sit around and hope for a good one to come along, and that usually means that you have to take into account the plausibility that the person for whom you vote can actually win. In modern Presidential elections 70-80% of all votes cast are evenly divided between the Democrats and Republicans, with the remaining 20% divided up among all other candidates, since that 20% isn’t enough to win a third party only divides one or the other of the main parties, as Perot did the Republicans, and allows the other side to win. It’s sad, but it’s a fact of political life.