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[quote=TheManWithAUsername][quote=Anonymous]When you break it down to the individual, it makes all the sense in the world to vote based exclusively on principle.  I'm sure many, if not most of the Nader voters viewed it like you do - my one vote won't matter, so let me help him try to get to the minuimum required vote to get federal funding.  They were wrong.  Or rather, 538 (one half of one percent of Nader's voters) collectively were wrong - if they had voted a different way, we'd live in a very different world right now.[/quote]
I'm not sure what "collectively were wrong" means. The question (if we're talking about how I will vote) is whether each was wrong about his/her individual impact, and no one was.

I believe that if I walked down to the Capitol on my own and started yelling about campaign finance reform, it would have no impact. Just about everyone would agree. Are we all "collectively wrong" about that?

I don't think the problem is in the judgment; it may be in the failure to act more. If anyone wants to criticize me for being politically lazy, not campaigning, etc., I won't argue. When the discussion occurred here recently, I suggested that the most ethical course might be to campaign for Obama in a swing state while voting for whom I truly think should be president. I don't know if I could comfortably do that, but it's convenient that my compunction about that would spare me the work.

[quote=Anonymous]I suspect a lot of this comes down to personality type, rather than ideology....I'd guess that you're more optimistic, less risk averse, and motivated by a desire to win.[/quote]
That's interesting. I'm certainly the latter two. [/quote]

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