<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">If you shouldn’t vote based on polls, then you wouldn’t know who has “virtually no chance” of winning...<br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Aug 2, 2020, at 6:27 AM, John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 7:29 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i>> If deciding a vote based on polls is crazy, then one should vote for their favorite party, regardless of what the polls say, ja?</i></blockquote><br><font size="4">No, not if you deduce that Candidate #<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">3</span> has virtually no chance of winning but you sorta like, and Candidate #2 has a good chance but would probably be stub your toe level bad, and Candidate #<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">1</span> is already in power and so you know for a fact is Chicxulub Extinction Event level bad. And if you don't believe candidate #<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">1</span> is really that bad then you haven't been paying attention to the situation. I repeat what I said in 2016, there is a ceiling on how much good even the very best president can do, but there is no bottom to bad, so It is far <b>FAR</b> more important to avoid electing a disastrous president than it is to elect a great one. A great president would be nice to have but we can live without one, but we can<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> not</span> live with a disastrous <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">president</span> for another 4 years and expect anything even <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">close to</span> the Bill of Rights to survive.</font> <br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i>> Since one’s vote is very important to minority parties, the way to not throw away your vote is to vote for the party which is most aligned with your own beliefs.</i></blockquote><br><font size="4">Thanks to an idiotic clause in the US Constitution the only ones allowed to vote for the President of the United States are the 538 members of the Electoral College, and in 2016 I predicted that the Libertarian party would not win one single electoral vote, and I was proven by events to be correct. I repeat that same prediction today for the 2020 election<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, in fact I predict the Libertarian Party will do considerably less well in this election than in the last because some people, but unfortunately not all, learn from their mistakes</span>. You wasted your vote in 2016 and you're right on track for making the exact same blunder again in 2020.</font><div><font size="4"><br></font><div><font size="4">J<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ohn K Clark</span></font></div></div></div>
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