<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>The following article somewhat contradicts the previous one. Now I'm just confused. Oh well.<BR><A href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/10/obama-medicare-budget_n_3052762.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/10/obama-medicare-budget_n_3052762.html</A><BR></DIV>
<DIV>John Thielking</DIV>
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<DIV>--- On <B>Wed, 5/22/13, John Thielking <I><pagesincolor@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: John Thielking <pagesincolor@yahoo.com><BR>Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Why Voting Green Doesn't Matter (ie there is no spoiler effect)<BR>To: sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org<BR>Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 3:48 PM<BR><BR>
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<H5 class="yiv1623737381uiStreamMessage yiv1623737381userContentWrapper"><SPAN class=yiv1623737381messageBody><SPAN class=yiv1623737381userContent>If ever there was an argument for not worrying about the consequences of voting for a third party such as the Green Party, that might result in "spoiling" the election results such that a Republican or Tea Party person gets elected instead of a Democrat, this is it: <A href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/reality-check-obama-cuts-social-security-and-medicare-by-much-more-than-the-gop/274919/" rel=nofollow target=_blank><SPAN>http://www.theatlantic.com/</SPAN><SPAN class=yiv1623737381word_break></SPAN><SPAN>business/archive/2013/04/</SPAN><SPAN class=yiv1623737381word_break></SPAN><SPAN>reality-check-obama-cuts-social</SPAN><SPAN class=yiv1623737381word_break></SPAN><SPAN>-security-and-medicare-by-much</SPAN><SPAN class=yiv1623737381word_break></SPAN>-more-than-the-gop/274919/</A> Obama is
 now to the right of Paul Ryan on Medicare and Social Security. </SPAN></SPAN></H5>
<H5 class="yiv1623737381uiStreamMessage yiv1623737381userContentWrapper"><SPAN class=yiv1623737381messageBody><SPAN class=yiv1623737381userContent>John Thielking</SPAN></SPAN></H5>
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