ROMNEY WINS!!

[Karen Margrave]

We don't have to wait for election day... The race was decided yesterday, on the football field, in the game between the Cowboys and Redskins. For 17 out of the past 18 elections, if the Redskins win their home game before the election, the incumbant wins, if the Redskins lose, the challenger wins. THE REDSKINS LOST.. SO ROMNEY WILL WIN... :) as if there were a question ;)

I can never fine the 'political forum' to post this on ? Sorry.

[J Scott]

Originally posted by K. Marie Poe:

J Scott and Brandon Turner Thank you for taking the high road and not buying into the "throw away vote" rhetoric. :) As if there could be such a thing.

Unfortunately, I've had to have this discussion several times today...

If you're a believer that voting for a candidate who has no chance of winning is "throwing your vote away," then you can easily argue that voting for Romney in California is throwing your vote away (he has 0% chance of winning there) or voting for Obama in West Virginia is throwing your vote away (he has 0% chance of winning there). I would hope that conservatives in CA and liberals in WV don't really feel that their vote is being thrown away just because the candidate they support can't win that state!

This country's political system wasn't intended to be a two-party system...in fact, at the time the Constitution was signed, there were no political parties. Political ideologies have evolved in this country over hundreds of years, and to assert that your attitudes must fall within the scope of one of the two major parties is akin to suggesting that ideologies -- and our political and social culture in general -- shouldn't continue to evolve.

If enough people "vote their conscience," in 5, 10, or 50 years we could see one or both parties change considerably or go away, we could see new parties rise to power, we could see parties blend together, etc. These are good things, not things to be opposed. Look at the Tea Party -- whether you agree with their principles or not, you should be thrilled that a group of people had the ability (and the freedom) to come together to define a set of ideologies and promote those ideologies on a national platform.

One day, the Tea Party, the Green Party, the Libertarians, the Constitutionalists or some other group of like-minded folks will grow enough of a following to rival and perhaps take control from the two major parties in this country.

We should embrace and encourage that, not try to quash it by saying things like, "You're throwing your vote away." That sentiment, to me at least, is just un-American.