Why even vote if you are going to vote for a guy that doesn't have a chance to win or has dropped out of a race? Does anyone really give a shit about your protest or did you just waste your time? Does it make you feel better that you voted for your guy/girl even though you really didn’t contribute to the outcome? Isn’t that essentially voting present or the same as not voting? I've never understood the logic behind that but would love to try to understand it.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

There is always a so called lesser of two evils. I would rather vote for someone I didn't like then essentially not vote and have someone I hate get elected. Voting for someone that has no chance is similar to the reason people give for not voting at all.

There is always a so called lesser of two evils. I would rather vote for someone I didn't like then essentially not vote and have someone I hate get elected. Voting for someone that has no chance is similar to the reason people give for not voting at all.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

You're right Midget. I guess a vote for Edwards could be a protest vote. It's better than not voting at all I suppose.

I agree with you, I too am a realist.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Do you vote in the other elections? If so I'm sure there are people on the ballot that you don't know anything about or that you know very little about.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

A vote for Edwards is a vote against America.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Why do you assume that votes for Edwards are the product of the "uninformed"? Couldn't it be that a vote for Edwards is an informed rejection of both Obama and Clinton, and the "audacious" deference to power that their candidacies collectively embody? Couldn't a vote for Edwards function as a message to the Democratic party that it needs to re-engage with its base instead of waging war on it?

No.
That's a vote for Paul.
A vote for Edwards is just some dumbshit not realizing he quit the race.

I voted a coupe of weeks ago in the MI primary. Makes you feel good inside. And like giving blood you get a sticker and a cookie. Yep we have home made cookies at our polling place.

To me this argument is persuasive only to people who are politically detached or cynical. I spend a fair amount of time and energy working to change the current political order, and thus would never vote for something or someone that stands in direct opposition to the change that I want to see enacted.

If one is convinced that he or she cannot change the world around him, however, I can see the appeal of the "lesser of two evils" argument.

I largely vote conscience until November .