Also there are usually a number of things worth voting on besides the top of the ticket. Local judges, for example. Long ago I voted for Ross Perot thinking I was sending a protest message, but later came to the conclusion that due to our two party system we will always be presented with just two viable choices that can and will win. All…
Also there are usually a number of things worth voting on besides the top of the ticket. Local judges, for example. Long ago I voted for Ross Perot thinking I was sending a protest message, but later came to the conclusion that due to our two party system we will always be presented with just two viable choices that can and will win. All the other candidates are just noise. If you decline to vote for at least the better of the two choices we always get, and if you vote for or write in a third party that has no realistic hope of winning, you don't really send a message to anyone at all, none of them care how you vote. However, you do let others choose FOR you.
Also there are usually a number of things worth voting on besides the top of the ticket. Local judges, for example. Long ago I voted for Ross Perot thinking I was sending a protest message, but later came to the conclusion that due to our two party system we will always be presented with just two viable choices that can and will win. All the other candidates are just noise. If you decline to vote for at least the better of the two choices we always get, and if you vote for or write in a third party that has no realistic hope of winning, you don't really send a message to anyone at all, none of them care how you vote. However, you do let others choose FOR you.