[ExI] Electoral College and 1177 BCE

[William Flynn Wallace]

Most of us live in free states.  Exi-types tend to cluster more in free
states.  So… vote for your favorite party.  Perhaps the second most
dreadful mainstream candidate who wins the election will be influenced to
add your third party to his or her coalition.



Make sense?  Does to me.  spike

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What do mean by free state, sir?


What worries me:  on every kind of news I see Trump's name.  There must be
6 or 7 articles in my paper every day.  Name recognition is a powerful
factor in elections.  Some will look at the candidates and just mark one
they know.  No one else has 1/1000th the name coverage.  What we need is a
candidate NOW!  So the news (and the Democrats) can start putting that
candidate's name out there for people to see.


In advertising, a lot of what matters is just to show the product and its
name, over and over.  People may not read or listen, but they will see the
name, and that sells a lot of Tide.


I have no idea who to get or how to get them.  Clinton too benefited from
her name far more than her politics, I suspect.


Hollywood press people tell us that just getting the name and face in the
news is what they seek.  Favorable would be good, but bad is just about as
good.



bill w

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 1:50 PM, <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Electoral College and 1177 BCE
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> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 10:06 AM,  John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com>
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> > must be somebody on the list besides me that voted for Clinton but if
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> > is he's yet to speak up.
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> >…I voted Clinton. I was tempted to vote for Trump as a joke, but then I
> worried he might actually be elected, and voted Clinton, because I thought
> the race would be close. If it had been any other Republican except Trump
> I probably would have voted 3rd party…
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> It also matters which state you are in.  If one has libertarian views and
> lives in a free state (such as California, New York, Texas, etc.) then your
> vote cannot possibly swing the election, but… if a third party makes a
> strong showing, as it did this last time, then it influences the mainstream
> candidates to reach out to those third parties.
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> Voting third party isn’t about getting one’s own candidate elected (there
> will not be a Libertarian or a Green elected to high office in our
> lifetime) but notice how this last time around, neither of the mainstream
> candidates even tossed a bone to any of the third parties, not that I could
> tell.  If either mainstream candidate had taken most of Gary Johnson’s
> followers, that candidate would have easily taken a clean victory.
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> Most of us live in free states.  Exi-types tend to cluster more in free
> states.  So… vote for your favorite party.  Perhaps the second most
> dreadful mainstream candidate who wins the election will be influenced to
> add your third party to his or her coalition.
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> Make sense?  Does to me.
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> spike
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