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If you want to simply take a utilitarian point of view, a single vote has never decided a presidential election before, and it's unlikely it ever will. An indiv

by bnralt 6y ago

If you want to simply take a utilitarian point of view, a single vote has never decided a presidential election before, and it's unlikely it ever will. An individual who votes for a third party is throwing away their vote in the same way that an individual voting for any presidential candidate is throwing away their time. You can counter with "But if everyone did that...", but third party voters could make the same counter argument.

gruez 6y ago
>You can counter with "But if everyone did that...", but third party voters could make the same counter argument. Not really. The reason why third parties are third parties is that they don't enjoy widespread support. It's not like there's a third party out there in the US that enjoys support of > 30% of americans, but nobody wants to vote for them because they're not democrat/republican.