[WhiteGuy]

I'm confused.........

How does casting a vote, in a presidential election, for Charlton Heston instead of a "big party" candidate, add a single vote for the democrat?

It doesn't.

The entire argument over "not voting for bush is a vote for gore" is a falshood.

[King Prout]

not at the moment.
at the moment, there is no viable third party. No third party has significant power bases in local, state, or federal government.
to vote for a third-party candidate for the presidency at the moment is exactly the same as not voting at all: there is absolutely NO CHANCE that candidate will win. In that perspective, the failure to vote for Bush subtracts one vote from his tally, which is the same as if a vote is added to the demonrat candidate.
I am no die-hard Dubyaite, but he beats ALL of the demonrat alternatives by a long mile.

[looscnnn]

Plus the fact that there were the "undecided" people that voted for Perot, they might have voted Bush or the might have voted Clinton.