"John D. Giorgis" wrote:
>
> At 07:41 PM 11/1/2002 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote:
>
> >> 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?
Yeah, that's more like it than anything else that followed in the
paragraph I snipped a lot from. :)
The other thing is, no one person is going to be a *perfect* match for
an ideal. Certain philosophies will gravitate towards certain parties.
But someone can be a real bum and be associated with a party you'd be
prone to vote for, and the best way to keep the bum out of office if you
don't vote in that primary (or your choice was defeated in that primary)
is to vote for the opposition, unless the opposition is even worse. In
one case, I voted for someone in the Green party because they were the
only one running against someone I had voted for in previous elections,
but in whose performace I was disappointed once she'd served out a full
term. And lastly, the party I feel is more in tune with my personal
philosophy isn't one of the big two, but they don't have someone running
for every office and they're not likely to get a lot of people elected,
so I vote in the primary that is most likely to determine the outcome of
the actual election for my county, and vote for candidates in that
primary that most closely follow my personal philosophy.
Julia
>
> 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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