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Originally posted by Snakeeye+Apr 20 2005, 09:04 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Snakeeye @ Apr 20 2005, 09:04 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-MarchHare@Apr 20 2005, 07:50 PM
You attack my logic, and then you follow it up with poor logic of your own. Colour me unimpressed.
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Ironically, you attack another poster for creating a false dilemma exactly one paragraph after creating one yourself.
Do you really think that the CPC, Liberals and NDP are your only choices in an election?
Or simply, do you really think your choices are either Liberal or abstain? [/b][/quote]
In a purely technical sense, no, my choices aren't just the Liberals, Conservatives, or NDP. I could vote for the Green Party, the Marijuana Party, the Natural Law Party (are they still around?), an independant candidate, etc.
In reality though, if I want my vote to go to a candidate with a chance of winning rather than being a mere statistic, the big three are my only choice. And the fact that I live in Calgary means that the Conservative Party is going to win regardless of how I vote, so it's a moot point anyway.
As for my point about the only options I find palatable are to either vote Liberal or abstain, how would you suggest I vote, given that I don't support the platform of either the CPC or the NDP?