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Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Third Parties and the Wasted Vote Myth

My latest at Medium.
Didn’t a “wasted vote” come from the Georgian who held his nose voting for Clinton because he hated Trump that much? Or from the New Yorker who held his nose voting for Trump because Clinton was unacceptable? They knew just as much as a Third Party voter that their candidate had no chance of winning their state. Why did they even bother?

Well, they bothered because they wanted to express their opposition to either Trump or Clinton. Millions voted Blue in solid Red states, or vice versa, for only that reason. Their votes, in support of a losing cause for someone they didn’t even like, were just as “wasted” as Third Party votes.

3-minute read.

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