+1,000,000 for this:

I intended that.

but if it makes you feel better to keep a charade going than whatever. Principled vothers should choose for themselves how and if to vote.

Sorry. You appear to have missed my point.

but I don't like being snookered and Clinton is the most corrupt candidate I have ever seen in my life. Between her campaign and her corporate and media partners they are pulling a Bush v Gore. it is she and they who ate tearing the world apart and my vote won't matter except to make me feel better - that I protested the corrupted slimy system. God Bless America and may we survive these monsters who will lead us into perpetual war for profit.

Your small donations are funding a political insider's consulting firm, to the tune of millions of dollars over the course of the campaign. That $500K was one month of billing.

Is equivalent to giving a half vote to both candidates!

explain how I am validating or invalidating my principles.

If my principles dictate, among other things : that we've sewn enough death in the Middle East, that war is not the answer, that Ukraine's unrest isn't simply a 'business opportunity', that the TPP will devastate what is left of US manufacturing, that one is a hypocrite when enlisting Blumenthal aganist the specific wishes of the current President while championing that President's legacy, that we validate the opposition by enlisting Brock who is the next closest thing to Rove that American politics has, that advancing the neocon agenda by 'turning the President around' on Lybia & pushing hard for regime change in Syria undermines his entire Presidential foreign policy, that for-profit prisons systemically destroy our society from the bottom up, that passing weapons deals only after the buyer donates to your personal foundation,

A (D) next to one's name doesn't make him nor her bulletproof. Is D uber alles regardless of position on issues really principled at all?

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

More often than not in my 44 years of voting I have voted "do the least harm and the most good".

I have always voted Democratic in the POTUS election beginning with George McGovern but with two abstentions in final election.

I once voted for John Anderson in the 1980 GOP primary election and changed my registration so I could make the vote against Reagan

Hillary Clinton sets a very low bar for "do the least harm and the most good" but is still far preferable to Trump or Cruz or other 2016 GOP candidates that have been floated.

IMO Hillary Clinton as POTUS will be bad for the USA and bad for the Democratic Party so I may abstain as I am in California. If it was a contested state, I would vote Clinton this Fall given the GOP (or third party) alternatives.

But party realignments scramble that thinking. We are in the midst of the 6th one. I am expecting this one to be ahem messier

Is like choosing whether I want my right nut or my left nut cut off. I choose to have neither cut off.

I might as well stand with John Quincy Adams:

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

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