> I realize this is a bit of a tangent from my original post, but FP raised a point I'm interested in: how willing are you to compromise with politicians for your votes? Obviously no politician can ever represent anyone 100% of the time, but what does it take for you to vote for somebody?
> Ste "Poli. Sci. major" phen

The thing that swings my vote is that I don't really believe that my vote matters. State and national elections are won by the millions or thousands (even in that one Florida fiasco) of votes, and millions more ballots are cast that effectively cancel each other out. In state and county where I have residency, any election will be so lopsided that there is no urgency to vote. This is the attitude that stops a lot of people from voting, but, then again, I'm not campaigning to get people not to vote. [Though, for amusement's sake, I reserve that right.] On top of that, I'm like everyone else in that I don't like compromising. The reasoning isn't perfect, but the result is that I won't compromise my vote until after an election I participate in comes down to a margin of about one.

As for the requirements for candidates, they just need to be nearer to my goal than the others.

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