WHY VOTE A THIRD PARTY?

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I am sick of the Democrat Party with their crazy socialist lefties, their desire to get rid of police, “give us your tired and poor” (and imprisoned) from every corner of the Earth, their support of children sex changes, and their rude and unprofessional actions in Congress. I was also disappointed that it took 3 weeks for Republicans to elect a Speaker of the House.

 

                                                                                                                                                                   I had this feeling that not a lot was being accomplished by                                                                                                                                                                               either party, so I looked up information on the House. Through                                                                                                                                                                     August 31, 2026, the House held floor votes on just 65 days –                                                                                                                                                                           the fewest through this point in any comparable midterm                                                                                                                                                                                 election year since 1994, according to No Labels’ analysis. The                                                                                                                                                                       House spent 383 hours in session, the lowest in our midterm-                                                                                                                                                                         year comparison going back to 1990. And Congress enacted                                                                                                                                                                             just 34 public bills into law, also the lowest in the comparison since 1990.

 

There are 243 days from January 1 through August 31. If you are

a full time employee with a standard five-day workweek, you

probably worked around 165 of them, depending on how generous

your holiday and sick leave policy is. But the House held floor votes

on 65 of those days, just over a quarter of the time.

 

I don’t know about you, but if I only worked ¼ of the time I was

required, I wouldn’t have my job too long. We have serious

problems with our elected officials. So, back to the original

question, “Should we vote for a third party?”

 

Historically, no third-party presidential candidate has ever won an election. It is rare for a third-party candidate to win a Congressional election. Bernie Sanders and Angus King won as Independents. Unfortunately, we have been a two-party system since the 1790’s.

 

PRO – Advantages for voting third party

 

        ●You can actually vote for someone that has the same views as you.

        ●You don’t like either of the two-party candidates.

        ●You want to encourage a more than two-party system.

       ●You want to make a protest vote against the present ruling party.

 

CON-Disadvantages for voting third party

 

        ●One of the parties will lose that vote.

        ●Maybe your second-best candidate will lose because of your vote and you end up with someone worse.

        ●Your vote really doesn’t make a difference and doesn’t solve problems.

 

I hear many disgruntled voters saying they are going to vote for a third-party candidate. My only thought is that sometimes it is better to vote for someone close to your ideals or values than not voting at all or wasting a vote on someone else. No candidate is going to be perfect and every candidate must be held accountable. If we don’t vote we have no room to complain about the outcome. If we vote third-party we need to clearly understand that the purpose for the vote may never materialize. The one thing that is sure…YOU NEED TO VOTE for the person closest to your value system.

 

Kathleen Nunn