[My2Cents]

My strategery would be to vote LP (like I almost always do), hope Bush looses by a margin that the right-wing third party candidates picked up and get 4 years of gridlocked govt. That will give the RP 4 years to realize they can't take the right wing for granted.

The Libertarian Party is hardly "right wing" on many issues. Too many dopers, pro-prostitution, and isolationists for my tastes. But go ahead and vote LP, cause Bush to lose by a hair, and then let a Democrat nominate up to four Supreme Court judges who will serve for the next 30 years.

[onyx]

The "right wing" has never voted GOP so the threat and stratergy to vote 3rd party is meaningless.

[Wolfstar]

What a hoot. I love this "send a message" crowd. They are denser than lead. Total votes cast in the typical presidential election is around 100,000,000, of whom minor party voters total around 1% to 2% nationwide. Of that 1 to 2 million, how can anyone possibly determine who the true Green, Reform, Libertarian, Constitution, or Communist party true believers are vs. those just "sending a message?"

Furthermore, if the "send a message" vote is split among any or all the minor parties, how the heck can anyone determine what the message is?

The only bona fide message on election day is the one sent by the tens of millions of people who vote either Democrat or Republican. It's the only message received in Washington and among the nation's media. It's the only one that matters among those who will govern the nation.

"Sending a message" by voting minor party is like spitting into the teeth of a hurricane.

[Peach]

You nailed it. Most of the LP supporters are dopers and I've run into a few of them on FR. They seem to have come out of the closet lately.

[Mo1]

But go ahead and vote LP, cause Bush to lose by a hair, and then let a Democrat nominate up to four Supreme Court judges who will serve for the next 30 years.

If the Party of Clinton gets to pick the SC Judges .. the LP can kiss their dope good-bye .. along with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights

Come to think of it .. When Clinton was first elected, didn't he fire all a lot of folks in the justice department and replace them with his people?

[prairiebreeze]

But go ahead and vote LP, cause Bush to lose by a hair, and then let a Democrat nominate up to four Supreme Court judges who will serve for the next 30 years.

You think we've heard the LP's scream at this point? If this were to happen, we ain't heard nothin' yet!

Prairie