Do you believe in the concept of the useful vote? you dont like a candidate, you vote for his adversary?

Question

So that the one you don't like don't win, as opposed as trying the adversary to win...

Answer 1

I personally am opposed to the idea of voting for the other guy just because I don't like his opponent. If you don't truly believe in the candidate you are voting for, find another one. As much as people don't think much of third party candidates, I feel that if people voted for a candidate that they believed in instead of "you have to vote for one the two main parties or you through your vote away" we would have a much different country today.

Answer 2

Sometimes voting is the lesser of two evils. That is why you have to know something about each candidate and what is important to you. Personally, I cant understand how any rational thinking person could vote for Bush UNLESS of course you are a CEO or grotesquely wealthy and without a conscience. Everytime I see some jerk with a BUSH bumpersticker on their car that is almost falling apart or some nutjob that has a Suburban that he can only afford to put $10 worth of gas in, I assume they were more interested in making sure boys dont marry boys or that women are denied the right to make a decision of whether they will get an abortion than whether they can pay their bills or have health insurance. Talk about voting against your own best interests!

Answer 3

Yes, the concept exists, and it's somehow true.

But after all, if you use your vote, in order for someone not to get to the positions that he or she is running for; what you are doing is helping the other person you are voting for to get it.

So, finally we, as citizen, should start making a real analisis, so, if we are in that case, we at least try to find the arguments, for this other person to get the position would be better.

We should start thinking of all of the bad things, but trying to find the good things from every candidate, and maybe in that way start making better choices.

And we should try to find the positive things of everyone, because any of them can get the position, and those good things that can be so little, are the ones that we all should support.

We, all of us, from the citizen, but specially the politics actors, should let the parties, and the elections apart, once one of them get it, and help all of us to go ahead, and stop being the main obstacles for him or her to do something good for the country.

Answer 4

The way the system is set up, it's either vote for someone, or against someone. The problem with that is that if you vote against someone, you're actually casting your vote for someone. And that someone may not be the person you want to give a vote to or would even like to see in office.

If a person can't decide, they're better off not going to the polls.

Answer 5

No, I don't. I need to know that my candidate is good. It's not enough to know that the other one is worse. I don't want to be an accomplice of this other unknown guy's victory, and then pay for voting someone who didn't deserve it. I always vote for the one I like, not for the one I dislike the least. And when I don't like anyone, I vote blank.

Answer 6

That's basically what a lot of other people and I did in 2004. We voted for John Kerry, not because we thought he had the makings of a great President, but because we hated Bush!