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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (129008)	8/1/2005 1:01:37 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793955

And you would not cancel out my vote if you learned to read. I said I would abstain. I read just fine. And sure I would. Yours would be one less for Rudy, mine would be one more. Net no change in his vote count. Your abstention is cancelled out by my vote. We cancel each other out in terms of the Republican vote count but in terms of swinging the election, I more than cancel you out because there's my vote for the red team but no countering vote for the blue team. Rudy has to gain only one half of an otherwise blue vote for each red abstention to break even relative to a nominee more to your liking. What percent of the 20 would abstain. Who knows? Certainly not me. But as someone who has abstained from voting (I abstained in the Bush-Gore election, for example) I appreciate the conflict in making that choice. That 20 percent might feel righteous on election day while taking a pass on Rudy, but they could pay for it with Hillary for four years and beyond and whatever impact that would have on that death toll. Hard to project what most people would do when push came to shove. Avoidance-avoidance conflicts are the toughest.