Reasons why voting Libertarian (or another third party) is not "wasting" your vote.

[Aeolus451]

sc94597 said:

Aeolus451 said:

Hmm. If a politician has a choice between trying to get more people of their own party to vote and new voters or going after independents' vote. Which do you think he'll choose? Which do you think is more worthwhile. 

People of his party are already going to vote. This is called the median voters theorem. 

You must have misunderstood me. Only 57.5% of americans who are eligible-to-vote voted in the 2012 presidential election. Source.  Those 40% that didn't vote are more important than trying to sway independent voters.