A simple poll

[Benton]

(10-27-2016, 11:33 AM)hollodero Wrote: Well, it is.

Voting for a third party is nothing more but an illusional rebellion against the current voting system.
No vote for Ross Perot changed that, no vote for Ralph Nader changed that, no vote for Johnson or Stein will change that.

As long as people are not completely indifferent between the two major candidates, it doesn't seem wise to vote third party. It's just leaving the decision to others. A wasted vote indeed.

When Trump closely wins Ohio and therefore gets president, probably every Jill Stein voter (and probably most of the Johnson voters) just has to kick himself in the butt. Reality.

Parties are about members. Go back to the Republican shift in the 60s with the southern strategy. They were running out of supporters, the population was changing and more people were supporting the direction of the Democrats. Republican strategists realized they needed to expand their base, so the southern strategy was born — bring in white, southern people unhappy with desegregation and rising minority population. That's been a big party of the party's base... until now.

Chunks of the Republican party are breaking off. Evangelicals are unhappy. Angry isolationists are unhappy. Small business owners are unhappy.

The same thing has happened to both parties before where large groups went in a different direction, effecting a change of course as parties go off or come together. If enough people show enough dissatisfaction, either the parties will respond by adapting or they'll shrink and get absorbed into another party.

Stein (or whoever) voters won't be kicking themselves. These are already the people who realize neither candidate is going to make a good president.