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.
>>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.<<
Wrong. You guys can whine and kick your fee and hold your breath until you turn blue.
Picture an electorate of 4 people. 2 vote for obama, 1 for Romney, 1 3rd party. Who wins the election? What would have happened had the one voter not thrown a temper tantrum?
And of course making fun of my name is all you have — ad hominem is the last resort of the feeble minded — and there are clearly many of you.
You can justify it all you want with YOUR lack of math skills (you people are even too slow to know what a zero sum game is —I give you all too much credit). If obozo wins and you vote 3rd party it is YOUR fault — and you go to the grave iwth the results of an obozo 3nd term.