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Who will you vote for in the 2012 presidential election...

Who will you vote for in the 2012 Presidential Election?


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Look what the republicans sent us for the election.
A guy that speaks thru his ass because his mouth knows better.
 
If it were today, Romney. Election is a long time away though and I am not worried that either man will "destroy our nation".
 
The lack of fear over the launch codes seems to help with that. :p

Well played.

Eh, they are both moderates. No big deal to me. I prefer them in charge rather than rabid foaming mouth idiots from the hard left/right/libertarian breeds.
 
No vote is a wasted vote. Votes are about more than just voting in someone, its also about making a point. Wish more people would realize that instead of just ALWAYS voting along party lines.

A protest vote means nothing. As in 2000, protest votes can just put someone you don't want in charge. The Nader voters should have stuck with Gore.
 
Wrong type of mentality imo.

Well, you will not be voting for someone that can win. And I doubt that Romney or Obama gives a crap about anyone's 'protest' vote. So realistically, voting for a 3rd party accomplishes nothing, other than in the mind of the 3rd party voter.
 
Yes there are many middle class people who assume they are smarter and more "valuable" than the rich and rather than dealing with the fact that they have inflated their own sense of worth or marketability, they blame their employers or the market for their status and then hope the government punishes those who are doing better than they are.

PhDs who cannot hack it in the real world are perfect examples. I had several law professors who made top grades at Yale or Harvard but couldn't hack the brutal hours and politics of places like Cravath Swaine and Moore or Sullivan and Cromwell or Hughes Hubbard and Reed so after a couple years there they fled back to the ivory towers and spend the next 4 decades of their lives complaining that some guy who was a B student in the class they graduated first second or third in was now making a million a year as a senior partner at some big wall street firm while the poor "smarter and more talented" professor was only making 100K teaching at Chicago, Columbia, Cornell or Duke

if you want someone who makes more to have a bigger burden that is worthless to me. the rich are the only group that is paying more of their share of the income tax than their share of the income

It's not to punish the rich. I don't seriously believe in punishment.

Again, you seem to think that because you are a successful lawyer that means you know more about how politics should work than liberal lawyers who studied law just as much or even more than you did. I'm definitely sure you know more about law than I do, BTW. I wouldn't stand a snowman in Hell's chance of beating you in a civil court. But it's too easy to attack the other side by saying all liberals are unsuccessful. It is a good strategy but it isn't realistic. There are liberal lawyers without a doubt, and certainly conservative janitors (IMHO, even though a job at law requires more intellectual exhaustion, manual labor requires more physical exhaustion and therefore is more brutal).
 
How does one spam polls? If the administrators have them set up so that 'guests' can vote, then it is their fault isn't it? Seems for most software, that is simple setting to change. Not sure why any forum such as this would want 'guests' to vote anyway.

Immature prick logs out. Proceeded to vote a 100 times as a guest. Tell me how that's being an adult.
 
That doesn't even make sense. It seems obvious it is merely something being abused, not drawing people in.

I can't, for the life of me, remember a time I saw a poll on the internet and thought 'oh man, great poll, i gotta sign up there!'

We've had user reports that site participation, through the polling section has turned former, unregistered members, into registered participating members.
 
We've had user reports that site participation, through the polling section has turned former, unregistered members, into registered participating members.

So basically unregistered new IPs that voted turned into regular users?

Or people just said "voted in poll, joined the site?"
 
A protest vote means nothing. As in 2000, protest votes can just put someone you don't want in charge. The Nader voters should have stuck with Gore.

Well, you will not be voting for someone that can win. And I doubt that Romney or Obama gives a crap about anyone's 'protest' vote. So realistically, voting for a 3rd party accomplishes nothing, other than in the mind of the 3rd party voter.

Its all gotta start somewheres. If everyone keeps voting for the lesser of two evils then nothing will ever change. But until people start doing this then no one will start doing it.
 
Its all gotta start somewheres. If everyone keeps voting for the lesser of two evils then nothing will ever change. But until people start doing this then no one will start doing it.

At the rate we are going, by the time a valid 3rd party has a chance at power, the 'two evils' will have destroyed the country already.
 
At the rate we are going, by the time a valid 3rd party has a chance at power, the 'two evils' will have destroyed the country already.

In which case my vote is worthless anyways no matter who I vote for.
 
At the rate we are going, by the time a valid 3rd party has a chance at power, the 'two evils' will have destroyed the country already.

Quite possibly. Which is why I cannot support either of those evils.
 
Not that a DC resident gets anything remotely close to the voting power of anyone else in this country...
 
No, in essence I will be voting third party.

I am sure that those that vote that way want to believe they are not throwing their vote away, as well as believe they are not at all responsible for who we end up with.
 
A third party vote may be a protest but it is a useless one..........
 
Not that a DC resident gets anything remotely close to the voting power of anyone else in this country...


simple solution-move to Va or Md
 
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