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canvasbck wrote:I find all this talk about how your vote for a third party candidate is a vote for Obama to be hillarious. Texas will be a red state.........period. Your vote for POTUS is completely useless in the state of Texas.

So do you think that if Romney wins 51% percent of the popular vote in Texas, vs 98%, a person's vote is useless? I may not affect the final result, but I think it would say a lot to voters throughout the country.

clarionite wrote:

Jim Beaux wrote:

clarionite wrote:Do you care to explain how voting for anyone other than Obama or Romney for this election will cause someone other than Obama or Romney to win?

One could only explain this concept to someone who has a firmer grasp of logic.

Then make an attempt at educating me.
I may not agree with you, but program logic day in and day out. If I can teach a computer, I'm sure I can be taught.
I'm truely interested in how someone believes that a vote for someone other than the two front runners does anything other than helping Obama.
Surely you can't argue that someone other than Obama or Romney will be the next president.

Edited: To fix my quote blocks.

I will try. Let's say a poll shows Obama with 49% of the vote and Romney also at 49%, with 2% undecided. Of course polls have a margin of error.

Let's say that another candidate [Ron Paul for example] is running. Since most of the Ron Paul supporters would be conservative, voting for him would be likely take away votes from Romney. So if the 2% undecided voted for Paul and other 2% moved from Romney to Paul, then Obama would get 49%, Romney 47% and Paul 4%. Therefore Obama would win. Some people claim this is what happened with Clinton and Ross Perot.

Charles L. Cotton wrote:I don't know who was the first politician to publish their tax returns, but he/she was an idiot. Tax returns are not relevant to a person's qualifications for the job, they only provide fodder for more negative campaigning.

Chas.

It's none of anybody's business except the taxpayer, their accountant/tax preparer [if they have one] and the IRS.