>>You must be saying if one doesn’t vote for Romney, one is voting for Obungler.
Do I have that correct?<<
Yes. Arithmetic is funny that way. Elections are a zero-sum game.
Gotcha. Thanks.
And you are not factoring in those who voted for Obama who will stay home or vote 3rd Party as well.
Oh, forgot to add...don't you mean "binary?" One or the other?
You obviously took public school arithmetic - or public school logic. A McCain voter who stays home or votes third party or votes only the down ballot races is not the same thing mathematically as a McCain voter who switches and votes for Obama.
Not that hard, really. Zero sum, maybe, but there is a one vote swing and a two vote swing. A switch is a two vote swing. A stay at home is only one.
Yes. Arithmetic is funny that way. Elections are a zero-sum game.
Wrong -- feelings such as anger and frustration are funny in how they pervert arithmetic.
And when Dumb says "election sare a zero-sum game," he's partly grasping, but not fully, the reality that in the voting booth, it is materially and mathematically impossible to vote "against" anything; you may only cast a ballot FOR something, even when it comes to propositions. You don't vote "against" a proposition -- you vote FOR passing it, or you vote FOR nixing it. As for candidates, you cannot vote "against" a candidate; you can only vote FOR a different candidate to prevent the candidate you dislike from winning. Not quite a "zero sum game," but Dumb is apparently built too low to the ground to catch that particular ball.
Dumb, mathematically and materially, there is only ONE WAY you can vote for Obama, and that is to mark his name on your ballot. Arithmetic is very straightforward that way.
What's "funny" is overhearing one Democrat telling another, "I'm voting third party this time -- screw Obama," and his pal says, "That's the same as a vote for Romney!" -- and then coming on here to see folks like Dumb saying that this poor stupid bastard Democrat doesn't even know he's voting for Obama anyway because "arithmetic is funny that way."
But actually, feelings and emotions like anger and frustration are "funny" in how they provoke people to bastardize plain arithmetic.