And the other option is...?
Choose McCain; watch the government grow, taxes climb, and liberties be eroded so that Obama won't have a chance to grow the government, raise taxes, and erode liberties? How is choosing the slow road to hell over the fast lane not "wasting my vote"? It's a lose-lose situation.
Okay, vote for someone who doesn't have a snowball's chance at actually winning. You'll still see either McCain or Obama in office.
Vote Your Conscience does not necessarily equal
Vote Responsibly. Voting for someone with no realistic chance of winning pulls a vote away from someone who
does have a chance to win. Then you have a very real chance of the single worst candidate being the winner even though a huge majority of voters didn't vote for them. Clinton's second term is a perfect example of that. Clinton won even though 56.36% of the voting public did NOT vote for him. All because H. Ross Perot, who had about as much chance of winning as Mickey Mouse, pulled in 18.91% of the vote. If even
half the people who voted for him had voted for Bush, Bush would have won by a comfortable 4% margin.
So, yes, voting for someone who doesn't have a chance of winning IS throwing away your vote. And it's a slap in the face to those who vote realistically. Even though they have a candidate they much prefer, they know there are only two who have a chance at winning, and they know that one of those candidates WILL be the winner no matter how much they wish otherwise. So they do the responsible thing. They vote for the candidate who, in their view, will have the least negative impact on the country. It is neither pleasant nor enjoyable. It is, however, real life.
Brad