The Price Of A Vote
OK, I didn’t vote today. I’m not proud of it, but frankly in this case it really didn’t matter. Not because both candidates are not that interesting, which they are, but because as long as I consider myself a Democrat in NY, my peers in the “party” are going to make as good a call as I am. I believe in efficient markets, especially when the market only includes folks from all over the state, all with slightly different values, but who want the same outcome.
What I did realize today, is that my vote would have had more value if I was registered as a Republican. At least in that case, I could actually have some input in electing the worst candidate, the person most unlikely to win in an election. Some folks said that I’m being pessimistic, but its about making your vote count as much as possible. That’s the goal, and as far as I can tell, everyone in NY would be better off register as a Republican and vote in the primaries for the worst candidate. It goes both ways
too, so I’m not sure if I should tell the world of my plan.
At this point in US politics, with the elections being as close as they are, your better off focusing on making sure that the party you don’t want in power has the worst candidate. In NY, if you want a Democrat, your seem to be better off trying to have such a crappy Republican candidate that folks outside NY won’t vote for them. You know that the Democratic candidate is going to win NY in election. So your vote counts more when if effects how the election turns out outside the boundries in NY which you can do by voting in the Republican NY primaries.
Call me nuts. It won’t be the first time, but I do want to know if there I’d a flaw in my logic, although in that case I suppose your let me stew in my own juices.