It's not that simple, since you followed with: "If more people refused to vote for a bad candidate, then the margin to win would be much smaller. Egads, if pe

It's not that simple, since you followed with: "If more people refused to vote for a bad candidate, then the margin to win would be much smaller. Egads, if people voted for who they actually wanted, rather than vote against who they want the least, then maybe we'd get someone who actually, you know, represents the people!" So you're using "the main candidates are bad" as the basis for how the population should vote. It was more a bad assumption than an opinion.