Why isn't anyone posting the big seemingly legitamite Romney criticism?

[Mr Khan]

badgenome said:

Mr Khan said:

Unless you live in a state where it's a foregone conclusion one way or another, you're doing Obama a service by not voting Romney.

By which i mean, i encourage libertarians to vote third party

Obama didn't win my state in 2008, so he has no shot in hell in 2012.

Even if I lived in a contested state, pretending your vote really matters is just silly. If an election is very, very close in a state, and it comes down to a few hundred or even a few dozen votes, your vote still didn't decide anything. So, again, I think you may as well vote your conscience instead of holding your nose to pick one of the two viable candidates just because you're "throwing your vote away" otherwise. Your vote is statistically insignificant, so feel free to waste it on the very best candidate.

Right, but if even 1,000 registered voters in a state think that way, that can matter in a swing state. Same with people who think "why vote at all, my vote won't matter."

Really America should do a runoff system on a state-by-state basis, or make the electoral college into something more on the matter of proportional representation, so that if a state with 20 electors had 5% third party vote, then one elector is bound to vote for someone else. That would also soothe the anxieties of electoral enclaves like Eastern Washington State, or Austin, Texas, whose votes are essentially perpetually wasted every presidential election.