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Are you voting split ticket?

Do you intend to vote different parties for President and other Federal offices?


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Always though? What if you're trying to send a message to the party? I think there's a place for protest voting.
I agree completely. And, in fact, I just might vote straight ticket this time, for the first time ever. And if I do it will be a protest vote against a specific party. I should have qualified my statement as a general rule. There can be outliers for extraordinary circumstances.
 
To prevent one of the two completely f'ed up and hideously grotesque eventual winners from being able to do too much damage.

Checks and balances as it were.

That may happen anyway. It is unlikely at this point that the next 115th Congress goes Democrat (It would be a stretch to see Hillary win and see Congress go all Dem control House and Senate.)
 
That may happen anyway. It is unlikely at this point that the next 115th Congress goes Democrat (It would be a stretch to see Hillary win and see Congress go all Dem control House and Senate.)

You asked why people would split ticket vote.

That's why.

They hate who they're being forced to vote for, so they split the ticket in hopes that the winning POTUS doesn't have a majority congress.

It's a personal feel-good measure.
 
Dems are the only ones that work for my views and class interests, the GOP is little more than a detriment to the masses in Florida.
 
Yes, voting Johnson for President and likely Dem for State Senate (as only dems put up a candidate as far as I'm aware). The rest I'll figure out later after some research. Though have a feeling I won't vote for many (if any) Republicans since they almost always lose me on social stances.
 
I have always voted a split ticket national, state wide and locally. I would never vote for a candidate just because of either skin color or gender....I vote for the candidate that comes closes to my views.
 
I'll vote libertarian as much as I can. For positions that have no libertarian candidate, I'll vote for whomever I believe to be the better candidate (well that's my general strategy, it just so happens that the one I feel is best tends to be of the LP). So it can be R or D, I hold no allegiance to either.
 
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