Voting is not about letting the lesser evil prevail, but stating your preferential choice and if the two dominant parties utterly fail to do so, then a third party vote is the only rationale, if you believe voting is about who comes closest to your views and stating your opinion in accordance with that, rather than who participates in televized debates and makes the stupidest faux pas on a TV celebrity show.
Slightly different topic, but I do have to mention how surprised I was that only about 2% voted third-party in the 2012 presidential elections, since so many people did not like neither Obama nor Romney.
And lost votes? Defintely no, those progressives being disappointed with Obama because of his pro-corporation war-mongering policies, could just have voted for the Green Party candidate or someone else, the Socialist Workers Party candidate.
The amount of people who split the vote on the right could have been comparably high, I thought Southerners want to vote for a more principled Christian and not an elitist Mormon from Taxachusetts, Fishigan or wherever he is coming from.
The experiences from 1992 and 2000 prevailed this time, but perhaps they shouldn't have, considering the failure of both parties to address the grievances ordinary people face in this difficult economic situation, also created by the economic policies of administrations from BOTH parties.
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