One of the stranger arguments against voting third party…

One of the stranger arguments against voting third party… October 13, 2016

…is the notion that you are somehow morally obliged to not waste your vote on somebody who cannot win. Because, of course, that is both a self-fulfilling prophecy and an argument for having no elections at all and simply falling down before Might Makes Right.

You see, the reality is that, in an election, only one person is going to win and all the others, at some point or other, cannot win. Trump is rapidly approaching that point just as Mike Maturen began his campaign at that point. If it is somehow morally wrong to vote for somebody who “cannot win” then I would say that, looking at the evidence from Nate Silver and most reputable polls, Trump cannot win either. But only a fool would take that as an argument that we are all therefore morally bound to vote for the winner, Hillary Clinton.

If I lived in a battleground state, I would vote for who I must–Hillary Clinton–in order to deny victory to the most dangerously incompetent con man ever placed within reach of the White House. But since I live in ultra-violet blue Washington which will certainly give her our electoral votes, I’ll vote for who I want, since I have the luxury to do that. Mike Maturen 2016.


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