Throwing your vote away
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 6:32 pm
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/69040/
Seriously people, stop it with the strategic voting! Everyone needs to vote for who they want to win, not who they think is a good compromise because they think that their candidate won't win. Yes, I know I'm Canadian and I don't even live in the States anymore and our political system works slightly differently. But let me tell you a little story about what just happened in the Alberta election. Everyone hates the progressive conservative party (well, not everyone, but they are kind of hated by right-wingers and left-wingers alike). They were in power with a majority government. So then we had an election and along came a party that was even more right-wing than the conservative party. And all the right-wingers were excited. So the left-wingers freaked out and instead of voting for the liberal party or the new democratic party (another left-wing party) like good left-wingers should be inclined to do, they all voted for the conservatives because they thought that it would stop the wild rose party from winning! (Well, I didn't, I voted for the liberal candidate because he was who I wanted!!) So guess what happened? My riding (don't remember what the term for that is in the States, but basically my political area), which is full of left-wingers like me, now has a conservative MLA because everyone lost all sense of reason and tried to vote "strategically" instead of voting for who they wanted.
Moral of the story, vote for who you want to represent you. If they aren't going to get in, well, they really aren't going to get in if no one votes for them. !!!!!!!!!!! Drives me crazy. Stop meta-gaming elections.
Seriously people, stop it with the strategic voting! Everyone needs to vote for who they want to win, not who they think is a good compromise because they think that their candidate won't win. Yes, I know I'm Canadian and I don't even live in the States anymore and our political system works slightly differently. But let me tell you a little story about what just happened in the Alberta election. Everyone hates the progressive conservative party (well, not everyone, but they are kind of hated by right-wingers and left-wingers alike). They were in power with a majority government. So then we had an election and along came a party that was even more right-wing than the conservative party. And all the right-wingers were excited. So the left-wingers freaked out and instead of voting for the liberal party or the new democratic party (another left-wing party) like good left-wingers should be inclined to do, they all voted for the conservatives because they thought that it would stop the wild rose party from winning! (Well, I didn't, I voted for the liberal candidate because he was who I wanted!!) So guess what happened? My riding (don't remember what the term for that is in the States, but basically my political area), which is full of left-wingers like me, now has a conservative MLA because everyone lost all sense of reason and tried to vote "strategically" instead of voting for who they wanted.
Moral of the story, vote for who you want to represent you. If they aren't going to get in, well, they really aren't going to get in if no one votes for them. !!!!!!!!!!! Drives me crazy. Stop meta-gaming elections.