The value of the protest vote to the RKBA?

[rbernie]

Abstracting party affiliation or candidate names from the discussion - if your final choices at the ballot box for [President, US Congress/House] are:

1. a rabid anti-RKBA candidate that is electable under the right circumstances
2. a political weatherman candidate (not a friend of the RKBA but a avowed political opportunist) that is electable under the right circumstances
3. a pro-RKBA that is demonstrably not electable under any circumstances,

for whom do you vote?

For those of you who would vote for candidate #3, please explain to me how the RKBA is best served by casting that vote. For those of you who would simply not vote, I ask the same question - how do you believe that your actions benefit the RKBA?

I'm not being a smarta$$ - I truely do not understand the logic behind the protest vote (as opposed to working the candidates prior to the election to better support the RKBA).....

 

[Soybomb]

If you show the politicans that you're willing to settle for whatever crap they throw your way, you will always get crap. When enough people show that they are so dissatisfied with the system that they won't vote for the 2 major parties, those parties will have to look at either changing their values to win those voters back or losing elections.

Look at the results for the texas governors race.
Republican 39%
Democrat 30%
Independent #1 18%
Independent #2 12%
Libertarian 1%

The 3 "other" votes combines beat the Democrats. 39% is a terrible number to win with. 31% of your voters not feeling represented sends a strong message and thats alot of votes that the Democrats or republicans could pick up if they wanted. If not, that gap will close.

 

[SoCalShooter]

They will lose more and more constituents as they continue to screw up...next up Rangel with the draft, yeah thats not screwing your party over.

 

[rbernie]

31% of your voters not feeling represented sends a strong message

But how does your vote communicate the ISSUE that led to your dissatisfaction with the candidate? Stated differently, how is the candidate going to differentiate YOUR issues from those of the other disaffected voters?

 

[SolaScriptura139]

But how does your vote communicate the ISSUE that led to your dissatisfaction with the candidate?

No one can depend on just the vote to send a message to the politicians. Our support and affiliation with good interest groups (NRA, etc) and the letters we right. Petitions signed, and so on. It takes more than just a vote to send a message to the politicians.

 

[pax]

Election day is over, and the next one is two years away.

Give this a rest for now.

pax