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Old 10-02-2016, 10:24 AM   #471
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Originally Posted by Red Slinger View Post
Almost as frightening are the number of people choosing to support a 3rd party candidate. I mean, these are people who are presumably rationally choosing a candidate and they end up essentially spoiling their ballot.
3rd party voting doesn't spoil anything if you don't live in a swing state. Plus saying you're voting 3rd party is different from actually doing it.

As a person who thinks the two-party system is a terrible idea, I'd probably be telling a pollster that I'm voting for a 3rd party candidate every election, regardless of how I felt about the main candidates. And then vote for the lesser of two evils on election day.
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