@Olivier5,
Olivier5 wrote:
Not voting for the dem candidate in the main election is like voting for Trump or Cruz.
As I've mentioned elsewhere, if Clinton is the Democratic nominee and she loses in the general election, it will be her own damn fault. Blaming the voters for a Clinton defeat would be like blaming the bystanders for a train wreck.
That being said, you need to remember that the US doesn't hold one presidential election on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in years divisible by four - it holds 51 separate presidential elections, and most of those elections aren't close. There are only about a half dozen states where elections might be decided by a small percentage swing in votes. As for the rest of us, our votes are largely symbolic.
In Illinois, for example, Obama beat Romney in the 2012 election by around 900,000 votes. Romney never campaigned in Illinois during the general election campaign because there was no chance that he would win, and he was right. I expect the results in 2016 will be similar - Illinois is a deep-blue state. My vote for the Green Party candidate in 2012, therefore, wasn't a vote for Romney - it's not like my vote was going to tip the scales or anything. Instead, it was a protest against the timid, lukewarm liberalism of the Obama administration. And since my vote was going to be symbolic no matter how I voted, I chose to make the most of that symbolism. I expect that others who are in the ABC ("anybody but Clinton") camp think likewise.