There you go - how difficult was it? We already know Satan runs unopposed on the earth, so the only reason to make any choice is for earthly things. If earthly things don't have any sway on how you live your life, one may question why you even care about politics. Politics requires a choice between opposing parties. If you cannot choose one over the other, and consider neither to be your choice, why bother reading or posting about it at all?
Exactly. And guess what? I've got some "historical news" for you -- since it seems we're heading toward that same historical cycle:
And here's that news: At some point in our country's history (mid-19th century), voters stopped voting for one of those "opposing parties" -- Whig party candidates.
Imagine that.
And what then cropped up as THE "go to" party?
The GoP.
A fledgling GoP that had backbone.
A fledgling GoP that gave us Lincoln as a candidate in 1859...and three years before that a social-issues agenda that took on the "twin relics of barbarism" -- slavery & polygamy.
We know what Lincoln did on behalf of slaves in the 1860s. And we know what the GoP did via legislation in the 1860s thru 1880s re: polygamy -- including shipping an elected polygamist congressman back to Utah in 1898.
At some RINO flash point, more & more GoP people -- like me later this year (& others to come) -- will leave the GoP.
You do realize, doncha, that the registered GoP voters are now only 29% of the entire registered-voter pie?
And I believe this % will drop in 2012 and even more so in 2013.
At some point, independent tea party and independent conservative social-issues voters will constitute a larger voter block than the increasingly dwindling -- and now OFFICIALLY RINO -- GoP. It'll be incumbent for the tardy ones left in the GoP to abandon ship before they go down with it.
Btw, there's been POTUS elections where the late-election polls were right.
Going into the Dole-Clinton election, we knew Dole wouldn't win. (He lost by 8 1/2 %; Perot got slightly less than 8 1/2%)
It simply "didn't matter" that GoP voters chose Dole over Clinton (or Perot). That "required choice" of yours didn't matter. Dole + Perot = 49.1%; Clinton got 49.2%
It just didn't matter whether people chose third-party (Perot) or the second party (Dole).
BOTH Perot AND Dole were just "also-rans." And "also-rans" only counts in horse-racing.
So, by extension, your Q applies to ALL those GoP voters who -- late in the election campaign -- campaigned for Dole or advocated for him in any way. They knew he was going to lose. Why bother posting signs? Why bother commenting on the Internet then in favor of either Perot or Dole ? Why bother with phone calls into homes or ads?