Dan Savage: Think you can safely vote for Jill Stein? Think Again!

Think you can safely vote for Jill "Harambe" Stein because Hillary Clinton has the election in the bag? Think again.

http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2016/09/07/24543095/the-election-is-tighteningdont-waste-your-vote


"Clinton is still in the lead: Silver is "only" giving Trump a 31.8% chance of winning the election. But Silver only gave Trump a 5% chance of winning the GOP nomination...

...And yesterday on The Gist—one of my favorite podcasts—Mike Pesca's guest delivered a reality check for righties and lefties. Kori Schake is a former national security advisor to George W. Bush and a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and a frequent contributor to Foreign Policy. She's a Republican—duh—who isn't a big fan of Hillary Clinton (she offers a pretty thoughtful critique) but thinks Trump's election would endanger the country. She thought about voting third party, or writing someone in, but she thinks the stakes are too high and the risk is too great:

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Kori Schake: I am with great misgivings, going to vote for Clinton. So for the first time in our lives my sister and I are going to vote for the same candidate. I think most conservatives are in the decision space of opposing Trump, certainly the national security conservatives, [they're] opposing Trump but finding Clinton so distasteful that they're going to write in an alternative candidate. And I was luxuriating in doing that same thing until I watched the polling on the British EU referendum. The polls were off by twelve points, in many cases, in the referendum and it made me worry that this may be such an unusual election cycle that polls will be quite substantially inaccurate and that people who think they can cast a safe vote in opposition and not bear any responsibility for Trump's election. I think those people may be mistaken. I think it could well be this is an election where every vote really counts"...

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