therefore helping guarantee the second round has no good options
Does it matter if no good option can go through anyway ?
I'm also pretty tired of this "useful vote" rhetoric - it's a common theme here in France - and quite frankly at this point I tend choose to vote for the candidate I feel the closest to ideologically, regardless of other factors. Though I'll be honest, you've made me doubt that.
That part is fine. If the choice is neolib or right-winger it's not a choice and there's no point in voting.
But not voting for Melenchon in the first round sounds like a horrible idea.
Sorry, wasn't my question, maybe I interpreted it wrong.
Fair point. It just feels like pissing in the wind at this point, but who knows.
I'm a moron, sorry, I thought you were the OP of the comment I originally responded to.
Better than voting for a guy with 1% support and therefore helping guarantee the second round has no good options.
Does it matter if no good option can go through anyway ?
I'm also pretty tired of this "useful vote" rhetoric - it's a common theme here in France - and quite frankly at this point I tend choose to vote for the candidate I feel the closest to ideologically, regardless of other factors. Though I'll be honest, you've made me doubt that.