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There’s No Such Thing as a Protest Vote
- PaulHoule 10y agoThis analysis forgets one thing about the actual voting system: the electoral college. If you live in a state like New York, California or Kansas that is a "safe" state, your vote is nowhere neat the margin so voting for Trump or Clinton is choice C. Vote for Stein or Johnson and you could legitimize a party that puts pressure on the system with just 5% of the vote. If you are in a swing state the argument is different, but in a safe state a vote for a mainstream candidate you dont believe in is a wasted vote.