Elections Have Consequences

[GeneCC]

Voting for a third party is throwing your vote away. It only goes to the democrats who have become the party of communism. The democrats pay to have third party names put on the ballot. There is no chance a third party candidate can win anything higher in office than dog catcher. That's the way it is.

You're thinking in terms of zero sum options. Almost never does 100 percent of the population vote. Usually it's sixty percent of eligible voters. As you can see below, it was below fifty percent in WV.

We have a two party system because the two parties push everyone out of the field. They gimmick ballot access. They play games.

Seems to me that we have a bigger problem than just two parties, don't we?

BTW - Manchin won WV because of a Libertarian.

Candidate Party Votes Votes %
✓ Joe Manchin* Dem 288,808 49.5%
Patrick Morrisey GOP 269,872 46.3%
Rusty Hollen Lib 24,231 4.2%


There were a few others around the country where the 3rd party vote was a factor in who won.

According to this source, in May 2018 there were 1,227,600 registered voters in WV. (see http://wvmetronews.com/2018/04/24/de...-registration/ )

Assume that there were not too many last minute registrations or deaths.

Add all three candidates, you get 582,911 votes.

644,689 voters did not vote for these three. Roughly 27 times as many people voted for "nobody" as voted for Hollen.


It's kind of presumptive to say that Hollen's supporters should have voted for Morrisey. What appeals to a libertarian might not appeal to a Republican.


If anyone has any anger, they ought to be aiming it at the over 1/2 million WV voters who refused to come out and vote for their rights. They sat around on their damn hands instead of voting.

I also think that we need to quit relying on the Republicans to help us out. They're fair weather friends. Much as Libertarians seem weak they are pretty solid gun rights people.