Originally Posted by mikesouth

For those like bmb I would strongly urge you to consider voting for a third party...Libertarian is my choice of course.

I think most of you would look at the Libertarian platform and find that all in all its the closest to what you agree with but all that aside if you are ina swing state like Ohio or Florida you will find that vote is highly coveted and giving it to a party that more closely represents your ideas forces candidates in both parties to take you way more seriously in the future.

If you look at the numbers it always boils down to this

You have 40% of the people who will vote Republican no matter what
40% will vote democrat no matter what

that leaves 20% that really swings the election one way or the other, when you have third parties sucking away those votes in doublr digit percentage points like ross perot did you have a very strong voice in that third party (why do you think the republicans jumped on so many of perots ideas (contract with america) etc?

If you really want change it isnt going to come from voting for obama or mccain thats voting for the status quo.

send a message vote third party anywhere you can and vote against the incumbent everywhere else.