"Voting for Lee is the same as voting for a lie," said Chung Dong-young, a pro-government liberal candidate running a distant second in recent opinion polls.
Voting for a departure is not the same as voting for a destination.
"Not voting for the bill is the same as voting against it," Zubov explained.
Answering polling questions in the presence of a powerful symbol is not the same as voting.
It tricks people into believing their own common power represents some bureaucrat's hegemony over them, and that buying power is the same as voting power.
And Erick Washington, a 59-year-old Brooklyn Republican, said, "I'm not voting for Lhota because I feel that would be the same as voting for the Giuliani administration".
As the Guardian's excellent guide puts it, the constituency section is "exactly the same as voting for an MP in a general election: you vote for one candidate with a cross, and the candidate with the most votes in that constituency wins that seat".
In such an environment, our members must understand that doing nothing is the same as voting for the other side.
So he is attempting to stop the vote, known as cloture -- with its 60-vote threshold to proceed with or end debate on a bill -- arguing that to support it would be the same as voting for Obamacare.
