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Spin Zone / Re: Your 2016 Presidential Vote:
« on: October 13, 2016, 01:51:59 PM »I talked to a few friends yesterday who are registered republicans, and it went something like this.
Person 1: I'm voting Johnson
P2: I'm writing in Kasich
P3: Don't know, but it won't be Trump
I tell them their choices won't win, and will almost endure a Hillary victory. They said they didn't care, that she's going to likely win anyway, so they're going to vote their conscience. I tried to discuss the implications of a Hillary win, and why we need to keep her out at all costs, but it fell on deaf ears.
I believe this is how it's going to roll at large, the R vote will be diluted by people doing write ins thinking it's going to change the world, when all it really does is ensure a Hillary win.
Eight years of Hillary will surely finish off what eight years of Obama has started.
I've been thinking of adopting the signature "Throwing away my vote since 1976(tm)" since that is the first presidential election I could vote in and my vote was for the Libertarian candidate - and has been in all subsequent presidential elections. That history tends to make me less inclined to apocalyptic forecasts if my choices don't make it into office. In my early teens and still had much to learn, when I was not old enough to vote in 1972, I would have voted for Nixon.
Just make sure your Republican friends still vote in the House and Senate (if applicable) races.