>>No, the math is not flawed.
It is a perfect model of your charge against me: that voting third-party in `12 was voting for Obama.
Now prove it.<<
Is your arithmetic that flawed? Any vote NOT for a candidate is a vote against him and FOR the opposite candidate.
Your non-vote (assuming you stayed at home in a hissy fit or voted 3rd party in a hissy fit) was a vote for obozo.
Simple math. You need me to “prove” arithmetic?
And there is your flaw — there is no opposite candidate
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This isn't boolean logic: It's not a choice between P and Not P — there are multiple candidates and if the Republicans put up someone that I cannot vote for, then I won't vote Republican. The same goes for Democrats (though there's little enough possibility of that). The same goes for any party.
In `12 the party that put forward the best candidate that I could vote for was the Libertarian party, which nominated my State's former governor Gary Johnson (he's pretty conservative, worlds moreso than Obama/Romney, and left the State with a decent budget surplus).