# Will Obama or Romney do better with the "independent" vote?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [May 28, 2012, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-obama-or-romney-do-better-with-the-independent-vote/623398 "2012-05-28T23:59:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-obama-or-romney-do-better-with-the-independent-vote/623398/21 "2012-05-30T16:27:37Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> Still don’t get it. If **more** had voted for Gore, he would have won and we would be better off now. Where’s the “folly”?

The folly of voting for “someone to the left” (Nader) of a “Democrat who can win” (Gore)

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-obama-or-romney-do-better-with-the-independent-vote/623398/22 "2012-05-30T16:29:23Z")

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> [@WillFarnaby](#):
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> The folly of voting for “someone to the left” (Nader) of a “Democrat who can win” (Gore)

Well, no third-party challenge is gonna be any factor **this** year. But I doubt Nader got much of the proto-Post-Modern vote anyway. They’re **not** to the left of the Dems.

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