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Comment from: Adumbrator [Member]

For those of you worried about “wasting your vote", if you are not already convinced that it is a waste to vote for someone who is on the path of making our situation worse, and think there are tiny yet significant differences between Obama and Romney, let me remind you of how the Electoral College works.

In the United States, most individual states allocate the electoral college votes on a winner take all basis, so if your state’s popular vote goes only slightly to one side or the other, the entire slate of electoral college votes for your state will go to the popular vote winner.

This is why the “swing” states get so much attention - all the other states are considered to have enough R-D margin as to make the campaign effort inadequate to shift the scales. Only the states that are very close get attention; if you are not seeing the television plastered with campaign commercials, then you are not in one of those swing states.

If you are not in one of those swing states, then you can afford to vote your conscience, and I encourage you all the more to do so.

A vote for more of the same is a wasted vote like none other.

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