At 07:41 PM 11/1/2002 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote:
>I consider it better than voting straight ticket, anyway; my impression
>of "straight ticket" voters is that they depend on a political party to
>make all their decisions for them. I know that isn't fair, as many of
>them vote in the primary.
Exactly. Or they could be people who are just fortunate enough to have a
single political party very closely approximate their political views.
Indeed, if someone at least did enough research on the election to know
that if a candidate is endorsed by a political party, then that candidate
is highly likely to approximate one's own political views, then I would say
that that someone is substantially ahead of a great many Americans.
>> 2) Did you mention this because you expect people to look more favorably
>> upon you for having voted for candidates of four different parties?
>
>More an announcement that you can't stick me in any sort of political
>box and expect me to stay in it.
Or is it that one simply can't stick you in one of the current political
party boxes and expect you to stay in it? Wouldn't it seem that if it was
impossible to stick you in *any* definiable political box, then that would
simply mean that your political views last consistency? That is, in an
ideal world, shouldn't it be possible to design a fictional political party
that would usually approximate your political views? Or to put it another
way, if there were an infinite number of universe that contained all
possible political parties, would we not expect that in at least one of
those universes you would be a straight-ticket voter for one of those
parties?
Anyhow, I suppose that I should clarify this by noting that I am currently
strongly considering voting for Green Party candidates in two or three
races here. I haven't seen much in the way of Libertarians, but that
might produce a third party for me, so I may get to casting votes for three
out of four......
JDG
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