"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Well, I'm hoping to see Richard Campagna
(http://www.badnarik.org/campagna_bio.php) in Iowa one of these days. He
and his running mate, Michael Badnarik, are starting to look like the only
viable alternatives for my vote.

Until we fix the voting system in the US, a vote for anyone other than the
two major candidates is really just a vote against the person you'd have
otherwise voted for. And of course, that's exactly the opposite of what you
really want.

If you genuinely couldn't care less which of the two major candidates gets
elected, then I suppose you might as well vote for some other random person.
No different than staying home, or leaving that race unvoted on your ballot.
Certainly no better though.

I've always been a bit puzzled that the independent parties don't stop
wasting time putting up candidates for races they'll never win, drawing
votes from the major candidate most closely aligned with their thinking.
It's counterproductive. They'd do much better working on the voting process
first, so that third-party races were actually viable rather than
disruptive.

I, for one, would love to be able to vote for someone other than a Rep or
Dem in a way that was actually meaningful.

Pete