I urge you -- please vote at the top of the ticket. Register your franchise. VOTE for a third-party candidate not because you think he'll win, but because your vote will help weaken the victory of whichever statist, Obama or Romney, does win. A president who "wins" even when the majority of Americans are on record as opposing him at the ballot box -- i.e. Bill Clinton in 1992 -- is defensive and vulnerable, and is DENIED a mandate.
Your third party vote will count toware DENYING a mandate to the winner. Clinton got slammed in the mid-terms with the Republican Revolution; it probably would not have happened if he'd won with a majority or if HW had been re-elected. And Clinton was a relatively popular figure -- Obama, on the other hand, is increasingly held in contempt by Democrats who voted for him last time. Your third party vote won't favor either Obama or Romney, but it WILL count in the popular tally, and if Obama was re-elected on such a plurality that as many as two in three rejected him at the ballot box, he would be humiliated, he would be a mockery, conservatism would be empowered, and your vote would have HELPED conservatism.
I urge you please to re-think your decision not to vote at the top of the ticket. Your third party vote would work to DENY a mandate to the winner, and that would empower the conservatives you'll have voted for down-ticket when it comes to opposing that president.
A third party vote does do that, but it also tends to get Obama elected in this case. Geez....
The point being that when the winner is still under 50% he’s a metaphysical loser so he can’t pull that ‘American peeps deserve yo’ money’ crp!
Given that the voters of California voted to screw up the primary votes, some weird deal about the top two candidates run against each other, so far no one seems to know if it applies to president. I am thinking not.
I don’t even know who’s running beyond the D and R for president.