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Hypothetical: if there were no polls, which candidate would most excite you?

If there were no polls, which presidential candidate would most excite you?

  • Hillary Clinton

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Donald Trump

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Jeb Bush

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Ben Carson

    Votes: 1 5.6%

  • Bernie Sanders

    Votes: 5 27.8%

  • Ted Cruz

    Votes: 1 5.6%

  • Marco Rudio

    Votes: 3 16.7%

  • Rand Paul

    Votes: 4 22.2%

  • Mike Huckabee

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 4 22.2%
  • Total voters
    18
Smeagol

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I think the polls have the power to create momentum for candidates long before the first vote is cast. I've actually advocated exit polls in particular be banned on election day because they can influence voter turnout and make western sates irrelevant, at least prior to the introduction of early voting a decade or so ago.

My question: if there were no polling data, which candidate would most excite you in the 2016 Presidential race?
 
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Still Bernie. Of course, without polls I might have better luck deluding myself into thinking he will win. :)
 
He is now Speaker of the House, more of a Statesman than the rest combined, and I am not a Republican.
 
For the first time in my adult life not one candidate blows wind up my skirt.
 
Excite? I'd be more excited seeing a tiger walk down the street than a house cat.

No doubt Trump would cause the most excitement....as would a reincarnation of Lincoln or Hitler.

As for banning polls. Ban this, ban that. Protect people from themselves. No, leave things alone. Also, who is going to ban anything? Under what authority in the Constitution? I believe each state has the authority in such a matter as we are electing representatives of the electoral college ( I could be wrong on that).
 
I'd like to see what Sanders would do with the office.

The rest not so much.

But I'll vote for Clinton over Trump if it comes to that.
 
Smeagol said:
I think the polls have the power to create momentum for candidates long before the first vote is cast. I've actually advocated exit polls in particular be banned on election day because they can influence voter turnout and make western sates irrelevant, at least prior to the introduction of early voting a decade or so ago.

My question: if there were no polling data, which candidate would most excite you in the 2016 Presidential race?
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Rick Santorum.
 
John Kasich. I'm really disappointed that he has been irrelevant.
 
Paleocon said:
Rick Santorum.
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He would have probably had my support but I found out 4 years ago he wasn't a fan a bla...people after I'd already voted for him.
 
Smeagol said:
I think the polls have the power to create momentum for candidates long before the first vote is cast. I've actually advocated exit polls in particular be banned on election day because they can influence voter turnout and make western sates irrelevant, at least prior to the introduction of early voting a decade or so ago.

My question: if there were no polling data, which candidate would most excite you in the 2016 Presidential race?
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I don't follow polls, which means that in JerryLand no candidate excites anymore than the others, whomever they be. As a result, no candidate excites me. Nor should they. Voting for someone should be as emotionless as humanly possible. I simply find the candidate whom share my views the most, and that's who I vote for. There's no excitement. It's a very dry process, as it should be for everyone.
 
Feel the Bern.
 
We're taking a poll about a world without polls!?
 
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