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No Choice 2016

A good friend from church sent me a forwarded email, one of those "Trump is bad but still have to vote against him to stop Hillary" things. This was the reply I sent back to him:

My Voting Guide for November 2016, The Amendments

PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS I'm going to have to do some jumping around here, but I'll make up for summarizing at the end. Items #1 and #3 are each standalone, but each of them has a bunch of story that is not being told on the ballot that has to be shared. #2 and #4 each seem to follow a pattern that I want to explore, to make sure that I can vote with principle and consistency, so that I can decide not just the question of whether this particular proposal is good, but whether this type of proposal is sound.

My Voting Guide for November 2016

I'm not going to write about the Presidential race. I'm done with it. Let's go down the ballot. For United States Senate JOHNNY ISAKSON (Incumbent) Republican Talks conservative, but votes liberal.  https://www.conservativereview.com/members/johnny-isakson/liberty-card/ . JIM BARKSDALE Democrat Typical Democrat party line of being “for the little guy”... With more taxes, regulation, Federal control. ALLEN BUCKLEY Libertarian Seems to be a Libertarian of the “not wacko” sort, really for bringing Washington back to its proper place. For Public Service Commissioner TIM ECHOLS (Incumbent) Republican ERIC HOSKINS Libertarian During the primary I voted for Echols’ Republican challenger. Echols’ website bragged on some great causes that in my mind are very worthy for private undertaking but not related at all to the role of Public Service Commissioner. Now, I'd like to give the Libertarians a chance, but Hoskins doesn't even seem to b