On Wed, 2016-11-09 at 17:32 +0000, Griffin Boyce wrote:
Why be such intellectual coward? You could've writtens in anybody you wanted.
Let me explain to you how presidential voting works (in every state but Maine and Nebraska, anyway): 1. The candidate with the most votes takes all the electoral votes in that state. 2. As a result of #1, a vote for any candidate who finishes below second place is effectively the same as voting for the eventual winner. Put another way, it robs the second place candidate of the votes needed to win. So... in Texas, Trump won. That means voting for Gary Johnson was the same as voting for Trump. Voting for Jill Stein was the same as voting for Trump. Voting for Evan McMullin was the same as voting for Trump. If everyone in Texas who had voted just for Gary Johnson had voted for Hillary instead, we'd be having an entirely different discussion because Trump would not have won. I will say this: at least Jill Stein or Evan McMullin couldn't have been any worse than Trump. But the system as it stands now doesn't even give them, or others who run outside of the two major parties, a realistic chance to win the presidency. This sucks, but it is what it is. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@rushpost.com>