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Originally Posted by Ed Hammer
(Post 19212509)
Why post these ads, If he is a candidate He isn't even in the race. If you vote for him, It just means your vote goes nowhere...
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In a perfect world if enough people took 20 minutes out of their valuable time they spend posting about their daily bullshit activities on Facebook and watching Honey Boo Boo and read a guy like Johnson's site they might find themselves agreeing with him, or for that matter, some other third party candidate. If they then voted for that person we could be in a situation where that candidate might end up getting 5% of the popular vote which would qualify them to get the matching government money for the next election. With that money they could buy more ads and work on growing their grass roots base and potentially this 3rd party might actually make some noise.
As it sits right now my vote is pretty much useless. Obama is going to win my state easily. I can't for a million reasons bring myself to vote for Romney so I'm voting Johnson because I would like to see a 3rd party and because I am pretty libertarian and agree with him on many points.
The electoral college system is outdated and useless and it disenfranchises a lot of voters. It needs to be done away with it. If those who don't really like either Obama or Romney voted 3rd party we would have a 3rd party, but about half the people in this country are so apathetic they can't even be bothered to vote once every few years so it likely won't be happening any time soon.
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