Reply #49: You realize, that will be voting for a Republican.

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All the Repubs have to do is to run a fake candidate to put in a centrist Dem, and they, the Repubs, get you to help the Repubs.

This happened in Michigan. During the primary for governor. It was a race between three Dems. Repubs wanted Geoff Feiger of Dr. Kevorkian fame, so they ran a fake campaign of someone else to split the vote away from the third candidate whose names I cannot recall at the moment. It worked, Feiger was the Dem candidate and lost to Repub Engler who practically destroyed the state during the heyday of Clinton's good economy. It was a political calculation that people hated Feiger more than they despised John Engler. The guy running the fake DEM race: a Republican. Son of some mucky-muck who I happened to know for a while. We no longer run in the same circles thank goodness.

Voting for the third party where the election is not a sure thing, puts Repubs back into power where they do incredible damage. Just look around! Rights gone. Economy in shambles. Unnecessary wars. Lax regulation destroying life and property. Theft on a mega and giga scale.

No. You've got to do it in the primaries when you can, and only in the general when it's already a done deal.

Sorry. That's just the America we've been handed.