Reply #50: Some feel progressives will vote Dem automatically. Ignore them and they simply won't vote.

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The argument is look at the alternative (Rethugs) just gets tiring. I don't go into a booth to vote against an alternative. I vote for the person who best repesents my values, and if there is no candidate speaking for me, I vote 3rd party or write in or not at all. Fortunately, I've voted Democratic in every election. Sometimes I've been dissapointed (ie Clinton and NAFTA among other things, but I do feel Barrack Obama is not pushing back hard enough. The Bush tax cut cave was the worst. Will the debt ceiling be a replay of that? We'll see. But to assume progressives will simply vote Dem because there's nowhere else to go is a strategic mistake.