The article doesn't answer my point. Instead of making a difficult and serious choice when faced with what he terms "evil," he opted to throw his vote away. That's his prerogative, as it was when folks voted for Barry Commoner, John Anderson, Ross Perot, Ralph Nader and chose to basically remove themselves from the solving of problems facing the nation. I'm not arguing that there isn't an elemental moral purpose that binds humanity, but you're never going to find that in politics, which is utilitarian in nature. You can only fill so many physical (and emotional) bellies and not everyone gets what they believe or, may actually, deserve. That's the nature of the game.
But my primary point still remains and Moore simply shrugs that "we'll never have a perfect candidate." In that statement, he insinuates that he is standing above the fray in some sort of demi-god status. Of course we'll never have a perfect candidate. We are all swimming in sin and we all need to be cognizant of that as we develop our stances to remedy the thorny problems facing the nation and the world. Balancing our self-interest with the needs of society as a whole is part of the social contract.
And Moore needs to check his history. Lincoln was a former Whig and the Whig party dissolved six years before he ran for President in 1860.