Same as before

Posted Oct 28, 2025 20:15 UTC (Tue) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Same as before by mathstuf
Parent article: Python Software Foundation withdraws security-related grant proposal

That's a good funding rule (whatever the voting system is) and it's not nothing.

But I doubt "We won't have any seat any time soon but vote for us so we can survive" is compelling enough to win voters compared to: either choosing the lesser of two evils that do have some chance to get some seat(s), or just staying home and watching TV.

Also, campaign billions are now protected as free speech thanks to "Citizens United vs FEC". How many orders of magnitude smaller are these federal funds? Just curious.

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Same as before

Posted Oct 29, 2025 3:29 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

> But I doubt "We won't have any seat any time soon but vote for us so we can survive" is compelling enough to win voters compared to: either choosing the lesser of two evils that do have some chance to get some seat(s), or just staying home and watching TV.

Given the Electoral College, votes for the "other" party in a given state (for the President) are essentially "wasted" anyways, so if you're passionate about it and live in, say, Alaska, and would vote for the "D" party, why not toss a vote to a third party instead? Also in more "purple" states, many candidates are registered under multiple parties. For example, one can vote for candidate A as a Democrat or Working Families or candidate B as a Republican or Constitution.