I've run into that before. I've had people tell me: "You voted for him?! This election was way too important for you to waste your vote like that!"
Indeed, I hear that all the time up here. "We must vote for X, because they have the highest chance of defeating Y!" Never mind the fact that X sucks just as much as Y, or pretty darn near. At least the cash per vote system gives incentives to not think like this, but it ain't big enough. And Harper removed that at the federal level anyways.
I think this attitude is probably worse in winner-takes-all systems like we have, as opposed to systems like the one in France (as far as I know it).
bah. ban advert.
sorted
And how do you know who to vote for? This would just give elections to famous people on a silver plate.
Election ads are a necessary evil, which I think is best when regulated by spending caps.
