Voting Libertarian is a Wasted Vote–Wrong!

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June 11th, 2007 | Add a Comment

OK, there are all the REAL reasons you should vote Libertarian. It is the way you feel; you know it would be good for the country; you need to vote your mind and all that basic stuff. All exteremly good reasons to vote Libertarian but they do not seem to carry the impact to get closet Libertarians to actually take action and vote their mind. Yea, I’m talking to you, you who wants to vote Libertarian but you just can’t do it because you don’t want the other guy to win so you don’t vote Libertarian but, rather, you vote for the lessor of the two evils.

	The Libertarians you vote for do NOT have to win for your vote to have an impact
That’s right. You can vote for the looser and still have an impact and most likely have a greater impact than you normally would have by voting for one of the two majors.

	When the numbers change, people take notice.
In the presidential election of 2000 (see fec.gov) a mere 385 thousand votes would have more than doubled the .36% popular vote that Harry Browne received. Now, this election was a-typical in that these votes may well have changed the final outcome of the election. However, if we look at the results for 1996, a more typical election, (see fec.gov) we see that doubling the the popular vote for Harry Browne from .5% to and full 1% would have been a drop in the bucket and would not have made the slightest difference in the final outcome. If the additional 500 thousand people needed to double Browne’s numbers would have voted for Harry Browne, those votes, even if taken entirely away from one of the two major parties, would have made a minor impact on that party’s results. For example, if all the additional 500 thousand votes for Harry Browne came from Clinton the impact would have been a decrease of just over 1% for Mr. Bill while having the impact of increasing Browne’s votes by over 100%. Mr. Bill’s numbers would have had to fall by at least another 8 or 9 million votes for this thing to even have come close to any kind of horse race. (Maybe that was the impact of the Reform party but we’ll deal with those (maybe you) idiots lost souls in more detail in another article. Yea, sure, get rid of the federal deficit by taxing truckers. How the hell does Rosshole Parrot think those Frosted Flakes get on the store shelves. What an ass! And as all you that voted for him you really. . .. I digress.) “So what?” you say. Well, we all know that the politicals out there keep a sharp eye on these numbers. If they were to see the popular vote for the Libertarian candidate double you can bet that they will take notice. They will take notice that indeed there are enough Americans out there that are feed up enough to start voting for a major reduction in Government. To put it simply, “they’re on notice.” Kind of like walking into work 30 minutes late everyday and then one day your boss asks why you cannot seem to ever make it in on time. Futhermore, the press and fellow closet Libertarians will take notice that the party is picking up some momentum hopefully leading to more of these closet Libertarians voting Libertarian in the next election and more people taking a closer look at the Libertarian party as an alternative and some making the switch or at least gaining a better understanding of the Libertarian position. Now, do this for a few elections and see the Libertarian party get 2% and then 4% of the vote and watch the reaction. Kind of like your boss now saying you REALLY need to start getting to work on time or I might think about a change to your position. The powers that be and all those that benefit from the huge size of government do NOT want the Libertarians in office because they know that they will be on the outside looking in–fired. They WILL tone it down. Maybe you still do not come into work on time but maybe you now come in only 15 minutes late–alright maybe only 29 minutes late. The government will not stop growing but maybe it will tone it down a little. And, you can bet your bottom dollar, that the two majors’ candidates would start addressing, if even in the slightest, Libertarian issues in their grandstanding speeches. Sure, you can say this is a reach and only slight but, however slight the impact, it is more of an impact your one vote will have if you do not throw it away on voting for one of the majors because you do not want to see the other guy/girl win.

One vote doesn’t matter
Your one vote for Harry Browne in 2000 would have had the impact of increasing the Libertarian percentage by .00026% and by decreasing either of the two major candidates percentage by about .000002%. Small, but the difference is about 130 times–your one vote would have impacted the Libertarian percentages by 130 times more than by voting for the lessor of two evils. No more excuses! Next time, vote Libertarian.