[supercat]

There is no chance whatsoever that Bob Barr or any real conservative will be president of the US in any of our lifetimes. The Libertarian party candidate usually gets about 1-1/2 % of the total vote, and Bob Barr will probably do a little better than that this year.

Nonetheless, is there any reason not to vote for Bob Barr in those states where one's vote isn't going to make a difference? I know some people say not to 'take chances', but there is no plausible scenario where Obama loses Illinois and yet gets 270 Electoral Votes. It would be more plausible (still unlikely) that McCain would come in third in at least one state, thoroughly disproving the notion that Republicans need to run to the left.

[Dead Corpse]

I’m in MN. I’m voting Barr. This was the only State that Mondale/Ferraro carried in 1984.

[epow]

Nonetheless, is there any reason not to vote for Bob Barr in those states where one's vote isn't going to make a difference?

I don't think so, and if you vote in Obama's home state it's a sure thing that one vote won't make any difference no matter who it's for.

Downstate IL should secede from the Cook county metro area and become the 51st state. I have traveled over most of IL and found that the differences between the people in those two areas are like night and day, and not just in the political realm.