[z3n]

"They attract fringe voters (witness their pathetic, and declining, performance over the last four presidential cycles). "

All small 3rd parties attrack fringe types. That is the nature of a minority party. If they weren't a part of a system that colludes to keep them from equal access to media, events, and funds, they would draw from non-fringe voters who don't normally go that way for the very logical and understandable conclusion that they would otherwise be 'throwing their vote away'.

Seriously, the closed mindedness in this thread has me thinking I should drop a protest ballot for Badnarik in November (I'm in Ohio. I hope it's not close)

[sinkspur]

If you vote for Bednarik in Ohio, you're nuts. Nobody gives a rat's ass about your "protest vote."