OT - Gas to hit 4.00 - Vote for Ron Paul - dropping out?

[Steven Alligood]

Nicholas Leippe wrote:
> On Thursday 12 June 2008, Shane Hathaway wrote:
>   
>> "throwing away my vote"
>>     
>
> IMO, the only way to truly throw away your vote is by casting a vote for 
> someone you don't want.  Voting for the "lesser of two evils" is still 
> putting support behind one of them. IMO, better to not cast a ballot in 
> either of their direction--let them know they are not wanted by letting them 
> win with a minority vote.
>
> The fact that people have a mentality of worrying about "wasting their vote", 
> IMO just goes to show that the current voting method is flawed.
>
>   

This mentality says to me that you have never lived in a state where 
your vote made a difference.

It is all nice and wonderful to have warm fuzzies about voting your 
conscience and sending a message, unless your failure to vote the two 
party system puts someone in the Whitehouse that will take away more of 
our rights than the other contender.

I lived in Florida during the Bush/Gore election, and let me tell you 
that I am quite proud of the fact that I was one of the 537 votes (or 
192, depending on which recount) that kept Gore out of office.

-Steve
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