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flamin lib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 03:17 PM Original message |
Why I vote a straight ticket. |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
1. You're kind of forced to vote straight-party anyway in a winner-take-all format. |
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flamin lib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 03:26 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Third party candidates at the national level are a waste of vote for |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 03:28 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. That depends. The Dem machine in Vermont symbolically nominated Sanders for his Senate run. |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 03:24 PM Response to Original message |
2. Good post and recommended. I'd also suggest starving the Greens at a local level. |
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flamin lib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 03:29 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. There may or may not be a case to be made for a third party. |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 03:33 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. There likely can't be a viable third party in America because of our voting system. |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 03:30 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. I am 100% for local control by Greens |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 05:15 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. That is not true: look at Chicago. |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 07:36 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Okay, but look at any city on the west coast |
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stimbox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 03:43 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Dooga, dooga, dooga, dooga!!!! n/t |
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warren pease (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 03:59 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. "But why cultivate a future splinterist candidate and embolden a party... |
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