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[cascadiance]

14. Those who don't want third party spoilers should push more for instant runoff voting...

... instead of bashing third party candidates like Nader. Perot's candidacy also helped illustrate people's big frustration with NAFTA very appropriately at the time. We need that voice this time around to also protest what the corporate elements of both party have done to push through TPA and likely other bills TPP, TISA, etc. later. Fortunately Bernie Sanders is running within the primary to avoid this splitting effect, but if we had instant runoff voting, we could have third party voices be able to give us a lot more temperature reading of what the voting populace wants, but not at the risk of having the best of the two major party candidates (which all of us know are the Democrats), losing when votes are cast for third party candidates in today's winner take all system (that instant runoff voting *fixes*).

We all win, and we hear and understand more the support for other party's voices accurately. That will help decent Democratic candidates know what the voters want more to ensure that they adapt their platform to meet what those needs are to fit with their ideology.

If we had instant runoff voting in Florida in 2000, we likely would have had a president Gore as the counts likely wouldn't have been as close as they were to allow the Supreme Court to stop it then.