Not with a ten-foot exit poll

Mark Alger tosses out this question, nominally to Democrats, though it would seem to apply across the board:

There's always the possibility that he thinks you're smart for voting for him, externality notwithstanding, but this would suggest a candidate who isn't openly contemptuous of the electorate, and these seem to be few and far between nowadays.

I admit to having engaged in various forms of, um, strategic voting, usually along the lines of "Well, if we send him to [higher level of government], at least he'll be farther away." This is also contemptuous, albeit in the opposite direction.