Does your vote matter?

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There's only one way your vote can matter, and not be wasted.

The third party debate: http://www.thirdpartyticket.com/
Third party news: http://www.thirdpartywatch.com/

Bob Barr: http://www.bobbarr2008.com/
Libertarian Party: http://www.lp.org/

Chuck Baldwin: http://www.baldwin08.com/
Constitution Party: http://www.constitutionparty.com/

Ralph Nader: http://www.votenader.org/

Cynthia McKinney: http://votetruth08.com/
Green Party: http://www.gp.org/

The music is Fixing My Brain (Into the Sun Again mix) by mattfatt73.

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Great video. It hits on some very good points.

I have written the following and I am considering doing a little more rewriting on it, if not rewriting it completely. But, I will post most of what I have now just in case there should be something in it that would help clarify the reality of the "safe" vote.

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I definitely do not want John McCain as the next president, so I have no choice other than voting for Obama. Let's see how the big O is polling against Mr. McBeer Heiress here in Texas where I live. OMG!! McCain is polling 50.7% to Obama's 38%. (From: http://news.yahoo.com/election/2008/dashboard,) Okay, wait a second while I do the math... Are you ready? I know you are going to be shocked, but Obama is going down big time in Texas. My one vote has no chance whatsoever of derailing or even slowing down the McCain freight train as it roars from the piney woods, along the Gulf, around the urban areas, through the hill country, across the plains, and into the desert and mountains.

However, winning Texas doesn't appear to mean there well be a McCain presidency, if the projection of the electoral votes from the website note above becomes reality. According to the projection, Obama will win 330 to McCain's 175 electoral votes. Obama will most likely win even with my failure to deliver Texas for him. Without an “October surprise” of some sort in McCain's favor, I can stop fearing a McCain occupied White House and start dreading the ObamaNation. It is time for me to get over myself and realize that the election is not going to turn on my one vote.

Free at last! Free at last! Oh, thank God my vote is free at last! Now I can cast my presidential vote in such a way that there will be much less ambiguity as to what I want to say with it. Hopefully, my vote will say I am not at all pleased with what either major party has offered up to deplete the oxygen in the Oval Office for the next four to eight years. [Full Discloser: I have been sending that message since I last voted for a major party presidential candidate in 1972.] There could be a lot more people who will break free from the wasted vote syndrome if they conduct a similar analysis of the real effect of their “safe” votes. And, this doesn't just apply to us McCainophobics. It applies to the Obamaphobics as well. McCain is not gong to miss your vote in Texas or any of the other states where he has a huge lead. Obamaphobics in California can forget about stopping the ObamaTsunami in land of fun and sun. A vote for McCain will still leave them all wet.

If we can still assume that election results are relevant, a strong showing of votes cast for minor party candidates is more important than ever. It would be terrific if the next president took office with less than 40% of the popular vote. What would be even sweeter, would be if the next president takes office without winning the most popular votes. He certainly would find it difficult to claim he had a mandate from the sheeple.
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"And what is this liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world?" -- Frederic Bastiat