Reply #83: You *may* vote for Elmer Fudd.

[krkaufman]

But Elmer Fudd isn't going to, realistically, win dog catcher.

The situation is as the situation is. We have yet again failed to repair our Presidential electoral process, and so are left with a system that heavily favors money and is nearly impervious to underdogs. In the Democratic primaries, if your candidate can't get over 15% in your state, your vote is effectively discarded; in the general, in all but a couple states, if your candidate doesn't win a plurality of the votes in your state, your vote is effectively discarded. Them's the facts.

Loads of changes are needed to the process before we'll ever see a candidate truly representative of the public.