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[quote=Anonymous]We have two horrible presidential candidates, both of whom are so fatally flawed that neither should be president. (They're each flawed in different ways.) Aa much as I am sickened that these are our choices, I've told myself that one of the two will be president and I should pick the one who is less reprehensible. (The old "lesser of two evils" thing.)

However, this election really is different, and many (many!) people I've spoken to, including highly intelligent, well-educated voters who have not missed an election in their lives, tell me that they will either knowingly throw their vote away on a third-party or write-in to send a message - that these candidates are not whom we support for our president, and in doing so, the ultimate winner will know that he/she has weak support from the country and will feel less inclined to rule by executive action (as both Trump and HRC have indicated). These voters will, of course, vote downticket.

Csn we have a polite discussion about this, without resorting to calls of racist and idiot? As I said, I have never heard so many people tell me theyre so disgusted with our choices that they're considering not voting.

P.S. Too bad Kasich couldn't stay in the race. [/quote]

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