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Originally posted by RougeUnderoos@Apr 7 2005, 10:55 PM
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Originally posted by Mike F@Apr 7 2005, 11:46 PM
As for those who are going to vote Green -- in this election more than any other, a vote for Green is a vote for a Conservative government with an asterisk. Basically the equivalent of voting for Nader in 2000.
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If I vote for the Green Party here in SE Calgary it's not going to change anything.
It's not at all like casting a vote for Nader in 2000 and sending Bush to the White House.
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How do you figure? It's pretty much a given that a Conservative will win my riding, so my vote for Green is not affecting the end result one way or the other except by the dollars my vote represents and the message it might send.
I see zero correlation to the US and Nader.
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And in the majority of cases those
individuals who voted Nader in the US didn't matter in the outome of that election due to the electoral college system, but the "Vote Nader in an attempt to move the Democratic party back toward the true left"
movement ensured that in some cases it
really mattered.
Similarly here your individual Green vote may not matter, but a "Vote Green" movement will go a long way to ensuring that those ridings that are close tip Conservative. [/b][/quote]
I'm not part of any movement.
I've never voted for the Liberals and I'm not going to change my tune now. Although it would be a bit of an ego boost if I was singlehandedly able to double the votes for a major political party (assuming the Liberal candidate votes for himself).
However, if I thought it was going to be even remotely close, I'd suck it up and vote for the Liberals. Considering they'll get roughly 0% of the vote where I live, I don't think not voting for them is going to save Canada from either the Liberals or the Conservatives.