[ExI] Electoral College and 1177 BCE

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of John Clark



 

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If either mainstream candidate had taken most of Gary Johnson’s followers, that candidate would have easily taken a clean victory.

 

 

 

Hillary got 2,864,974 more popular votes than Trump, Johnson got less than 1.3 million votes, however if she got just 77,000 more votes in 3 states she would be president …  John K Clark

 

 

That is my point exactly.  Had the second place winner merely tossed Johnson’s followers a bone, anything, anything at all, perhaps a few percent of those 1.3 million votes could have swung the election.  Good point.

 

Lesson learned: voting for your third party strengthens the meme set upon which it is based.  For Libertarians, it is all about balancing the Federal budget, regardless of what it takes to do that.  A strong showing by a third party influences the mainstream parties to listen and appeal to the third parties.  So if you live in a free state, your vote cannot possibly influence the election, but if you vote third party it can influence whoever wins that election.  So voting third party is the only way you can influence the election if you live in a free state.

 

The paradoxes of democracy are so cool.

 

spike

 

 

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