When I see this kind of nuanced argument for a minor party, it strikes me as completely unconvincing. Amidst a fiscal imbalance that is almost unprecedented in American budgetary history, concerns over national security, civil liberties, and a host of other issues, I just don't see conservatives running off even in tens of dozens because a Green candidate wants to cut congressional pensions.

To do so would require that the conservative voters in question have non-single-peaked preference orderings that placed such a nuanced issue ahead of other conservative principles, including laying aside the entire Green perspective on environmental regulation.  

I'll assume you were trying to give David a little laugh to help him adjust to the reality that he's not in Europe anymore. 

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