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[quote=takoma][quote=TheManWithAUsername][quote=takoma]I have the same question as 22:14.

Although disappointed in Obama, I still see him as preferable to the likely alternatives.  Do you, Jeff, foresee actively working to elect the GOP nominee, or do you just plan to exploit your DC residence to cast a protest vote that won't really cost anything?[/quote]
Not speaking for Jeff, but my views on this appear to be very similar to his.

I won't be voting for Obama because I don't think he's the best person for the job, or even close, and I vote for the person I think would be, subject to the significant limitations of my research. That person won't necessarily be an active candidate.

BTW, I take some (small) offense at the term "protest vote." I vote on principle - a very solid one, more carefully considered than the reasons most people seem to have. I could more defensibly call most votes "sheep votes" or something (though I don't).[/quote]
I did not mean "protest vote" as a pejorative term.  When I go out in the street in a protest demonstration, I am expressing my deeply held views even if there is little chance that they will change anything.  I see that as both admirable and important to democracy.  So even though I generally do not choose to vote that way, I do not see anything flippant in your choice, and my use of the word "protest" was not intended to imply that.

BTW, other than this one issue, I am usually in so much agreement with what you write that, if your postings were anonymous, I might wonder whether they were things I had written one of those times I forget to sign on -- I write so many things, most of which I don't post, that I lose track of them, and my ID on a posting is sometimes the only thing that reminds me it's one of mine.[/quote]

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