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(08-13-2016, 12:55 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: No, it's simply a fact that until enough people think he can win and aren't wasting their vote no him....then he can't actually win.  And if everyone were split between two candidates, and ask you to break the tie....and you walk away or pick someone else then you wasted your vote.

To say it's "brainwashing" is simply absurd.  Maybe you'd have a point if he was polling 30-35%, but then we wouldn't be having this debate if he was anywhere near that. 

Vote for Gary Johnson if you want.  I am.  But I'm not pretending to be some agent of change or that "throwing my vote away" is somehow going to make Dems or Repubs stand up and take notice of what I want.

Why's it a tie? It's not some hypothetical where there's only three people voting. You're talking about — most likely — a difference of several million votes.

And of the people that are voting for a 2-party candidate because they don't want to "waste" a vote, if 5-10 % end up voting third party, that's (roughly, depends on turnout which is probably going to be low) 10-15 million people. Combined with the people already planning on voting third party, that gets them well over the 5%, which means they can get federal funding and maybe actually get a candidate on a debate.

I've said for a few elections now, if people who are dissatisfied with the two party system voted for a third party in the next election it won't mean anything that year. But it could mean tons for the next several elections.