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DD>   And how does a third party get to be a "viable"
DD>   contender do you suppose?
 
JF>   Through the campaign process.  That is where people will find out
JF> if a  given candidate will have something better to offer.  And with
JF> polls,  news coverage, just as I pointed out above, in the very
JF> passage you're  blindly charging at.  As such it shouldn't be
JF> difficult to determine if  a third party is going to be a serious
JF> contender against the other two. 
 
 
-> THat's one approach.  Mine is to vote for the candidate or
-> party which comes closest to espousing my philosophy.  tHat
-> also means oftentimes I'm voting for not more of the same,
-> bought and paid for by the big money interests.
-> 
-> THis time I broke with my usual philosophy of voting my
-> conscience and beliefs, and voted major party, because I
-> knew voting as I normally would provided only one outcome,
-> especially if other folks who don't vote major parties did
-> as I did.  I would venture a guess that some third party
-> voters did as I did this time, and chose the lesser of two
-> evils.

   Correct.  I am not about to waste my vote on someone I know has little
support so I will make 'make use' of my vote to fight the one I oppose 
the most.  Let the ideological idiots throw theirs away if they have some 
other 'issue' that is more important to them.



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