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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-11 08:28 PM
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If voting third-party really gave us better candidates, you would not be complaining right now.
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lob1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-11 08:30 PM
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1. If the two parties gave us better candidates, I wouldn't be complaining now.
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-11 08:33 PM
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2. nice retort
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-11 08:38 PM
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3. I guess, if you pretend that the primary process doesn't exist.
Or if you pretend that it's not your job to win the rest of your party over.
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-11 08:40 PM
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4. I don't pretend either of those things
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saras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-11 09:07 PM
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5. As long as we have a two-party system with the spoiler effect built in, I'll be complaining
Multi-party, proportional representation.

But you can't have multi-party until you FIX the spoiler effect (i.e. if a minority votes far-left, the center-right guy wins over the center-left guy). There's lots of ways to fix it, and as far as I know no one *best* way.
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