{"id":12585,"date":"2024-10-24T15:06:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T20:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/?p=12585"},"modified":"2024-10-24T15:18:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T20:18:17","slug":"is-a-vote-for-a-third-party-candidate-a-wasted-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/2024\/10\/24\/is-a-vote-for-a-third-party-candidate-a-wasted-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Is a vote for a third-party candidate a wasted vote?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Election Day is less than two weeks away. As of Oct. 4, 2024, polls showed that 46.5% had an unfavorable opinion of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/polls\/favorability\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/polls\/favorability\/kamala-harris\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1729886256134000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0olLevG7DoNfjSYpRSf7yG\">Kamala Harris<\/a>\u00a0and 52.6% felt unfavorably toward\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/polls\/favorability\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/polls\/favorability\/donald-trump\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1729886256134000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3jDJYirDxeKDFodyrW4yGi\">Donald Trump<\/a>. So, what about voting for a Presidential candidate from a different party?<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, October 30th, the CSFE is co-sponsoring a debate on the resolution:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A vote for a third-party candidate is a wasted vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To participate, please register here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/braver-angels-collegiate-debate-western-carolina-university-tickets-1012763120757?aff=oddtdtcreator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/braver-angels-collegiate-debate-western-carolina-university-tickets-1012763120757?aff%3Doddtdtcreator&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1726235535939000&amp;usg=AOvVaw30badCgSGd8poMoLlPIQpa\">WCU Braver Angels Debate 10\/30<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The event will take place in Forsyth 101. Food and beverage will be available at 6pm and the debate will begin at 6:30pm<\/p>\n<p>See you soon!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election Day is less than two weeks away. As of Oct. 4, 2024, polls showed that 46.5% had an unfavorable opinion of\u00a0Kamala Harris\u00a0and 52.6% felt unfavorably toward\u00a0Donald Trump. So, what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3303,"featured_media":12586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12588,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585\/revisions\/12588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}