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Presidential Election: Who are you voting for or might/could you vote for?

Presidential Election: Who are you voting for or might/could you vote for?

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joko104 said:
Why aren't ALL candidates on it? There are over a dozen.
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I think you just answered your own question, there are poll limits and these are the main people on the sites i went too and on my home state site of PA

feel free to apologize for your knee jerk mistake at any time lol
 
Cephus said:
I voted Romney, not because I like Romney, but I hate Obama more. Sad because I did vote for him in 2008, just because I hated the idea of voting to put Palin anywhere near the White House. I wish I could actually support a candidate once, rather than voting against a worse candidate.
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This is kinda the position I'm in...I'm voting against Obama.

But I don't really want to vote for Romney either.

Recently started seriously considering the Libertarian party candidate.
 
The Mark said:
This is kinda the position I'm in...I'm voting against Obama.

But I don't really want to vote for Romney either.

Recently started seriously considering the Libertarian party candidate.
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I like gary so far from the stuff ive been able to dig up about him.
Most of the time libertarians cant get my vote because they would support laws that would empower bigots, racist, misogynist and discrimination. But he doesnt seem to be like that.
Only been looking into him recently though.
 
Objective-J said:
I like gary so far from the stuff ive been able to dig up about him.
Most of the time libertarians cant get my vote because they would support laws that would empower bigots, racist, misogynist and discrimination. But he doesnt seem to be like that.
Only been looking into him recently though.
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I'm a Green and actually support most Green policies so I don't feel I'm voting for the lesser of evils. Third parties don't have much chance, but at least you know they have an independent agenda. When they have as little money as the Greens, you can be pretty sure they didn't sell you out.
 
DaveFagan said:
I'm a Green and actually support most Green policies so I don't feel I'm voting for the lesser of evils. Third parties don't have much chance, but at least you know they have an independent agenda. When they have as little money as the Greens, you can be pretty sure they didn't sell you out.
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id tend to agree that why i asked some people about Jill is she REALLY as some of her stances seem to be on paper or not, id like to hear/see more clips of her actually speaking on the matter than I have.
 
The Mark said:
This is kinda the position I'm in...I'm voting against Obama.

But I don't really want to vote for Romney either.
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I don't either, but either Romney or Obama is going to win. No one else has a shot in hell. If my goal is to keep Obama out of the White House, I have only one choice: Romney.

Recently started seriously considering the Libertarian party candidate.
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It won't stop Obama if you do. You have to decide what your actual goals are.
 
DaveFagan said:
I'm a Green and actually support most Green policies so I don't feel I'm voting for the lesser of evils. Third parties don't have much chance, but at least you know they have an independent agenda. When they have as little money as the Greens, you can be pretty sure they didn't sell you out.
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But the only way they have any shot at actually winning, which I presume is their actual goal, they need a lot more money, and thus, a lot more corruption than they currently have. Right now, they might not sell you out but they can't win either.
 
Cephus said:
I don't either, but either Romney or Obama is going to win. No one else has a shot in hell. If my goal is to keep Obama out of the White House, I have only one choice: Romney.



It won't stop Obama if you do. You have to decide what your actual goals are.
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That's my problem.

I have to decide if I dislike Obama enough to justify voting for Romney.


There is no way in hell that I can think that Obama would get my vote though.
 
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samsmart said:
Jill Stein is the lesser of all the evils.

Vote for her and let the Democratic Party know that you aren't going to put up with the bull****
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Your post tells me that you're either a shill for the DNC, or that you haven't thought things through very well.

The way you don't put up with the "bull****" is to ensure the current guy doesn't get a second run. That means you vote for the challenger with the best chance at winning. A vote for Jill Stein is a vote for Barack Obama because she doesn't have a snow ball's chance, and Mitt Romney does. It's already been established that Obama has the edge. You've essentially taken a vote away from the next best chance at winning. Way to show the Dems that you're not putting up with their bull****, anymore!
 
Dooble said:
Your post tells me that you're either a shill for the DNC, or that you haven't thought things through very well.

The way you don't put up with the "bull****" is to ensure the current guy doesn't get a second run. That means you vote for the challenger with the best chance at winning. A vote for Jill Stein is a vote for Barack Obama because she doesn't have a snow ball's chance, and Mitt Romney does. It's already been established that Obama has the edge. You've essentially taken a vote away from the next best chance at winning. Way to show the Dems that you're not putting up with their bull****, anymore!
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I'm a Green because they recognize the disproportionate power of Corporations in this USA and because of their committed environmental concerns. If I thought this race was close enough that Romney might win, I would vote for Obama. I don't believe in the "give more money to the wealthy and they will do good things for general populace." That is a real figment of the imagination.
 
DaveFagan said:
I'm a Green...I would vote for Obama.
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Which makes you an Obama supporter and a crappy Conservative, as well. I'd rethink what I display as my political lean if I were you. Your comments are often way too Left.
 
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I’ve been exposed to a RIF that was based on religion and not on the value of the employee to the company. So Romney is much more into his religion being correct than Obama.
In Arizona the Mormons in state government passed a law where one company was set up to install small propane fuel tanks in vehicles, fancy large family SUVs, to get dramatic tax advantages and benefits. This scheme was only to be known by the Good People of the East Valley. The people that installed them never put propane in them because it was too hard, took too long, too few places to do it, and the tank would only last about 50 miles; so they just used gas. It took about a year for this to become discovered by the general AZ public.

Obama rescued the whole car industry including Ford etc. About 5 miles down the road are several companies that supply all the car companies certain types of parts. Losing Ford and Chrysler as customers would have shut them down even though Honda, GM, etc. are getting their parts from the same companies. The Romney bankruptcy process would have taken too long as it would have involved courtrooms, sales of assets, etc.

I could be identified from behind at more than 15 feet by a CEO that made the front cover of Time. I’ve dealt with several CEO types. Vote for one as president? No way.

So I’m voting for Obama.
 
I'm voting for Romney. I can't stand Obama and I mainly want him gone.
 
I'm voting for Gary Johnson. He is the candidate that holds my views and principles. I refuse to vote for any candidate that I don't believe in regardless of how "dire" this election seems to the left or right. I will not give my vote to Romney or Obama. They are tools and do nothing but pander to different audiences while lying through their teeth.
 
Dooble said:
Which makes you an Obama supporter and a crappy Conservative, as well. I'd rethink what I display as my political lean if I were you. Your comments are often way too Left.
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I am a genuine Conservative. You mean to imply that Republicans are Conservative. They are not. Republicans are rabid, right wing ideologues. I am what I say I am. You cannot co-opt a word and automatically be the definition of the word. If you mean Republicans are crappy conservatives, I will agree with that. My political lean is environmental and a desire to restrain Corporate power and political influence. You don't even know what Corporations have taken away from you.
 
Dooble said:
Your post tells me that you're either a shill for the DNC, or that you haven't thought things through very well.

The way you don't put up with the "bull****" is to ensure the current guy doesn't get a second run. That means you vote for the challenger with the best chance at winning. A vote for Jill Stein is a vote for Barack Obama because she doesn't have a snow ball's chance, and Mitt Romney does. It's already been established that Obama has the edge. You've essentially taken a vote away from the next best chance at winning. Way to show the Dems that you're not putting up with their bull****, anymore!
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Your post tells me that you are die hard party-tard or that you haven't thought things through very well.

Voting for a candidate because you hate him slightly less than the other guy because you think he has the best chance of winning is a idiotic reason to vote for someone.Voting for a ****ty candidate is still voting for a ****ty candidate and things will not improve. Romney isn't going to appoint conservative judges,Romney is not going to stand up for the 2nd amendment,Romney isn't going to stand up for conservative vaules and Romney especially isn't going to remove Obama-care seeing how Obama-care is based on Romney-care.
 
The sad thing about the election is that you don't just get Obama or Romney. You get all of the crooked bastards who brought'em to the dance.
 
The Mark said:
That's my problem.

I have to decide if I dislike Obama enough to justify voting for Romney.

There is no way in hell that I can think that Obama would get my vote though.
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People have to be pragmatic. Either Romney or Obama is going to win. None of the other candidates have any shot in hell and there is not, unfortunately, a "none of the above" on the ballot. I wish there was. So you need to decide, between the two, who will do the least amount of damage to the country. Personally, I hope for complete and utter gridlock in the government so that absolutely nothing gets done in the next 4 years and Romney can undo all of the bad that Obama has done.

That's why I voted for Romney. He's the lesser (barely) of the two evils.
 
Dooble said:
Your post tells me that you're either a shill for the DNC, or that you haven't thought things through very well.

The way you don't put up with the "bull****" is to ensure the current guy doesn't get a second run. That means you vote for the challenger with the best chance at winning. A vote for Jill Stein is a vote for Barack Obama because she doesn't have a snow ball's chance, and Mitt Romney does. It's already been established that Obama has the edge. You've essentially taken a vote away from the next best chance at winning. Way to show the Dems that you're not putting up with their bull****, anymore!
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I absolutely have thought things through quite well.

Jill Stein is in favor of "fair trade" rather than free trade. And making the minimum wage a living wage. And support businesses as worker-owned cooperatives. And to make necessary utilities operate at cost rather than for profit. And to expand Medicare so that it can be used by anyone. And to put a moratorium on foreclosure of houses. And to redirect government funds from fossil fuel research to sustainable energy research. And to repeal the Patriot Act. And enforce equal pay between genders. And to support gay marriage rights. And to change the electoral system to instant run-off voting elections rather than plurality winner-take-all. And to cut the Pentagon budget by 50%. And to prohibit the use of drones for the use of assassinations. And legalize marijuana.

So since I agree with Jill Stein on all those things that Obama won't do please explain to me why I would ever vote for Romney when he won't do them either?
 
Jill Stein or Gary Johnson. Romney is running on the stereotypical Republican platform, which I might add got us into this mess in the first place, and Obama is running on the same exact agenda that has gotten us nowhere in the last 4 years. I think most people who result to voting Obama/Romney are simply not informed enough to know there are other viable candidates that are proposing real change. Just because they are not Republican or Democrat does not mean they are not for real. 3rd party is the only way to a bipartisan government, and both Jill Stein and Gary Johnson have formidable plans to makes changes for the betterment of Americans.
 
samsmart said:
I absolutely have thought things through quite well.

Jill Stein is in favor of "fair trade" rather than free trade. And making the minimum wage a living wage. And support businesses as worker-owned cooperatives. And to make necessary utilities operate at cost rather than for profit. And to expand Medicare so that it can be used by anyone. And to put a moratorium on foreclosure of houses. And to redirect government funds from fossil fuel research to sustainable energy research. And to repeal the Patriot Act. And enforce equal pay between genders. And to support gay marriage rights. And to change the electoral system to instant run-off voting elections rather than plurality winner-take-all. And to cut the Pentagon budget by 50%. And to prohibit the use of drones for the use of assassinations. And legalize marijuana.

So since I agree with Jill Stein on all those things that Obama won't do please explain to me why I would ever vote for Romney when he won't do them either?
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I like Jill in many ways too.
The bolded above I totally agree with
The underline above I partially agree with I believe those areas need reform
if its not bolded or underlined i dont agree with it

where she worries me though is her foreign policy its all over the place and not realistic or reality based IMO, but i dont like many of her views.
 
Objective-J said:
I like Jill in many ways too.
The bolded above I totally agree with
The underline above I partially agree with I believe those areas need reform
if its not bolded or underlined i dont agree with it

where she worries me though is her foreign policy its all over the place and not realistic or reality based IMO, but i dont like many of her views.
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Honestly, it's because of her foreign policy that I'm voting for her. I'm tired of the War on Everything, or that Americans feel the need to make the world just like we are, or that the U.S. is single-highhandedly responsible for all that's good in the world while ignoring the bad that is done in the name of the United States.

There are many ways to exert influence in the world, and we need to better prioritize for what reasons we do so.
 
samsmart said:
Honestly, it's because of her foreign policy that I'm voting for her. I'm tired of the War on Everything, or that Americans feel the need to make the world just like we are, or that the U.S. is single-highhandedly responsible for all that's good in the world while ignoring the bad that is done in the name of the United States.

There are many ways to exert influence in the world, and we need to better prioritize for what reasons we do so.
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while I agree with you in principle

she seems to contradict herself IMO

what im talking about so you know is this:

how do we

Create a nuclear free zone in the Middle East region and require all nations in area to join.
Initiate a new round of nuclear disarmament initiatives.

but also

Cut the bloated Pentagon budget by 50%.
End use of assassination as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy, including collaborative assassination through intermediaries.
Demilitarize U.S. foreign policy to emphasize human rights, international law, multinational diplomatic initiatives and support for democratic movements across the world.
Oppose attacks on nuclear facilities.
Ban use of drone aircraft for assassination, bombing, and other offensive purposes.

I dont see how both sides those get done effectively without eachother
 
Objective-J said:
while I agree with you in principle

she seems to contradict herself IMO

what im talking about so you know is this:

how do we

Create a nuclear free zone in the Middle East region and require all nations in area to join.
Initiate a new round of nuclear disarmament initiatives.

but also

Cut the bloated Pentagon budget by 50%.
End use of assassination as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy, including collaborative assassination through intermediaries.
Demilitarize U.S. foreign policy to emphasize human rights, international law, multinational diplomatic initiatives and support for democratic movements across the world.
Oppose attacks on nuclear facilities.
Ban use of drone aircraft for assassination, bombing, and other offensive purposes.

I dont see how both sides those get done effectively without eachother
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Well, I don't agree with her in nuclear disarmament, nor on prohibiting the use of land mines, as land mines are an important strategy for deterring North Korea from launching an invasion against South Korea.

But, on the whole, I agree much more with Jill Stein than I do with either Obama or Romney.

And I think that she has much more conviction than Obama or Romney does too.
 
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