The thread is continuing this long because you're trying to communicate and discuss intelligently, which is hardly ever the grounds for attack around here, as far as I can see. So folks are going out of their way top respond in spite of your anonymity. That doesn't make it any less malodourous, just being tolerated out of courtesy.

But what I don't quite get is why you think spending a vote on a non-starter of high principle is a good idea, as opposed to spending the same vote to influence the actual outcome. Seems to me you're trying to spend your vote to maximize benefit and minimize harm through the whole next Presidency. Throwing it after a virtuous but low-in-the-poll person like Dean or Kucinich is romantic but not realistic -- or am I wrong about that? How?

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Is it just to register the intent, regardless of election?

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