You me both, brother/sister FReeper, spent much time in 2012 here trying to enlighten hopeful, desperate conservatives who wrongly bought into the myth of voting "against" Obama. I must have posted hundreds of times, and I expect you did too, trying to help people understand the reality.
There is no voting "against" anything, anytime, ever, on a ballot.
On ballots, you ONLY have the option of voting FOR, or refraining from voting FOR.
It's like computer code -- ones and zeros ONLY, or a light switch -- on or off, ONLY. There are only TWO options: FOR, or not. One or the other. There is zero option to vote "against." Even when you vote "against" a propostion, what you are actually doing is voting FOR nixing that proposition.
Yet people convinced themselves of all kinds of wildly imaginary and goofy nonsense, such as "if you voted third party or sat it out, you voted for Obama," or "I'm not voting for Romney, I'm voting against Obama!" Both pure, emotion-driven, mathematical fallacies.
Binary is the best way to put it.. but, sadly, that is way above many people’s heads :p
By the way, I know you know this.. but I am hoping (once again, out of the many posts here from all of us..)..
The ‘Vote against’ is what put us here in the first place.. Can’t get much simpler than that...
Every time people vote ‘against’ someone, it put us all closer to the edge of the cliff. NOW, we are ALL falling over the cliff because of it :/