Noooooo

[Ronin13]

Jesus, I can tell you are too calm about this. Do you think 3rd party votes are the reason that we got stuck with this POS again? How many votes did the Libertarian candidate get?

1.9%... 37,115. Couple that with the 22,499 that Dunafon got and Beauprez could have crushed Hick- assuming that libertarians are less apt to vote for Democrats... either way that's nearly 60,000 votes that were wasted on less than 2% garnering candidates. Just 2/3 of that going to Beauprez could have done it.

[d_striker]

1.9%... 37,115. Couple that with the 22,499 that Dunafon got and Beauprez could have crushed Hick- assuming that libertarians are less apt to vote for Democrats... either way that's nearly 60,000 votes that were wasted on less than 2% garnering candidates. Just 2/3 of that going to Beauprez could have done it.

And that is why I have never, nor will I ever, vote for a third party candidate. Wasted vote.

[avandelay]

We need some sort of runoff if one of the candidates does not get 50% of the vote.