Unlike OTHER races, the POTUS isn't elected by popular vote...he is elected electorally...state by state...
One poll -- even before Goode has qualified for the Virginia ballot -- has him at 9% in VA without even "pushing" it...
If we were wagering people (and I'm not)...what $ would you give me for Romney to win ANY of the following states:
* NY
* NJ
* Connecticut
* RI
* Delaware
* Maryland
* Hawaii
* Vermont
* Washington
* Oregon
* California
* Illinois
* Maine
* Massachusetts
(Perhaps with such easy $ available, I should start offering bets to various FREEPERs...all Romney has to do is to take ONE of these states to win the bet...If we started each wage @ a $1,000 a pop, I'd become fairly wealthy with enough takers...At the end of it all, I'd have to tell them...sorry...this isn't the Olympics...no "silver medal" for Mitt awaits for him in these states...no such thing as "medaling" in the POTUS race)
So...will you be consistent, Parley...are you going to tell potential Romney voters in the above states that their candidate likewise has a chance of taking the above electoral votes fairly equal to the chance of a "snowball in hell."???
If FREEPERs were really principled conservatives, they would at least tell conservative voters in the above states to vote for anybody but Obama and Romney [the ABOAR voters]! (Goode, for example, is already on the ballot in Oregon)
But...I think true colors emerge for some of the (new) RINOs among us...
By the way has Goode been “vetted”. Do you really know who Goode is?
(Most former Congressmen have been "vetted" -- not always to the nth degree)
Anybody But Obama And Romney
If you live in one of the nine swing states Obama has heavily campaigned/targeted, hey, I'll at least understand why you won't join my movement. (I don't want Obama re-elected, either).
Hence, I won't expect any FREEPER to lobby anybody to joisn the ABOAR movement in those given swing states...
But, if you live in -- or know of anybody who lives in -- the following states...no excuse exists to NOT be part of the ABOAR movement:
* NY
* NJ
* Connecticut
* RI
* Delaware
* Maryland
* Hawaii
* Vermont
* Washington
* Oregon
* California
* Illinois
* Maine
* Massachusetts
* (Also D.C. as a district)
If you happen to live in a state that Obama just won't win, well, I wouldn't expect you to lobby non-FREEPERs to join the ABOAR movement...But, if we subtracted 100% of Romney FREEPER votes from those states...and gave them to either Virgil Goode or Tom Hoefling, THEN we would still have the same results electorally...Romney would win those states; Obama would lose those states...Hence, your FREEPER vote isn't personally needed to ensure an Obama loss. (Sorry to bust your "ABO" bubble...but that's the HUGE problem when you move to the far left of your "ABAL" foundation -- Anybody But a Liberal)
Virginia is a swing state and could very well decide the outcome of the election. The states you listed are obviously in the Obama column and Romney has very little chance of winning one. So what is your point as those are not swing states? Implying I am a RINO is another good one. You guys are way to funny.