Charles Blow: The Folly of the Protest Vote

[Skidmore]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/opinion/the-folly-of-the-protest-vote.html

Last week, after I delivered a speech at the impressive campus of Morgan State
University, a historically black college in northeast Baltimore, a woman approached
the mike during the question­and­answer period to raise an issue that she and I both
found frustrating: What to say to young people, particularly young AfricanAmericans,
who have decided either not to vote in the forthcoming presidential
election or to cast a protest vote for a third­party candidate who will most assuredly
lose?

This is a very real issue this cycle. Many of these young people feel that there is
no good choice between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

On Sept. 4, The New York Times published an article pointing out the
devastating impact this lack of enthusiasm could have on Clinton’s prospects:
“Young African­Americans, like all voters their age, are typically far harder to
drive to the polls than middle­aged and older Americans. Yet with just over two
months until Election Day, many Democrats are expressing alarm at the lack of
enthusiasm, and in some cases outright resistance, some black millennials feel
toward Mrs. Clinton.”...more

[Gothmog]

1. A vote for stein or Johnson is a vote for trump

[otohara]

3. The Primary Is Over

nothing was rigged.

Enjoy your stay

[FrenchieCat]

4. If one's conscience allows a racist facist bigoted pig the chance to gain the WH for 4 years

and one's conscience doesn't have a problem risking our Supreme Court to go extreme right for the next 50 years.....
among other consequences....and a "progressive" voter doesn't believe that this direction of their country
when it comes to voting rights, justice rights, environmental protection, women's health rights, LBGT rights, money in politics, gun control measures, has anything to do with "their deeply held values and priorities"....well OK...

Fact: The house has been gerrymandered and will be in the hands of the Republicans regardless of folks voting 3rd party or not....
so NO, a President Trump would NOT be de-fanged from doing crazy stuff....so that statement is just myopically incorrect.

Fact: Gaining the Senate back is not assured....even if Clinton wins, so again.... NO, a President Trump would NOT be de-fanged from doing crazy stuff


Stated, and I quote: "But if one wants to get strategic, if one is a progressive, and one is in a Swing state, vote Jill Stein"
If one is progressive in a swing state then voting Jill Stein means one's conscience is a fucked up one, and one's deeply held values and priorities are absolutely NOT progressive NOR liberal but rather one only values funds for a third party....which, of course, is also not assured.