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Who Is The Crappiest American?

Which Type Of American Voter Do You Hate The Most?

  • The informed guy who is voting against my candidate.

    Votes: 2 3.1%

  • The single issue voter.

    Votes: 18 27.7%

  • The uninformed guy who is voting against my candidate.

    Votes: 30 46.2%

  • The guy who doesn't vote.

    Votes: 15 23.1%
  • Total voters
    65
I would say the average american voter. Without them, none of this would be possible
 
TheGirlNextDoor said:
The person who only votes for a candidate based upon 'party affiliation'. The uninformed is the most dangerous voter, followed closely by the apathetic non-voters who don't even give a crap enough to educate themselves and at least VOTE for a third party candidate so that maybe at SOME POINT - third parties will be given a snow balls chance in hell to try and change things if people would pull the stick out of their rear ends and put their vote where their mouth is.

As long as we have the two parties (and I use two = separate very loosely!) we are going to be stuck in the ****hole of the same ****, different election year here in the U.S

Sorry, but Democrats/Republicans - there is no difference and if tonights 'debate' doesn't prove that, I don't know what will. :?
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Just to add to this (once I've read responses after I made this first one) - I don't "HATE" someone if they don't vote or vote ignorantly... I just find that kind of person annoying because those are the people that will be the loudest complainers.
 
Definitely the uninformed person, followed by the single issue voter.

I don't mind if people choose not to vote. I'd certainly prefer it if ignorant people chose not to vote.
 
Pinkie said:
I hear this a lot -- do you people who fling that poo stop and think that voting for a guy who promises tax cuts for the rich is just as selfish when a rich voter does it?
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That really isn't a valid comparison, as the one who is voting for himself to benefit by the labor of others, is different from he who votes to keep the fruits of his own labor.
 
Voltaire X said:
Definitely the uninformed person, followed by the single issue voter.

I don't mind if people choose not to vote. I'd certainly prefer it if ignorant people chose not to vote.
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I will nag a nonvoter like a hangnail. It's inexcusable, unless you really couldn't vote -- IMO, anything is better than just letting everyone else decide.
 
lizzie said:
That really isn't a valid comparison, as the one who is voting for himself to benefit by the labor of others, is different from he who votes to keep the fruits of his own labor.
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The rich man is voting to keep some of the fruits of the labor of working men. The government appetite for cash must be fed; when the wealthy avoid some of their share of that obligation, who do you think picks up that tab?
 
Pinkie said:
The rich man is voting to keep some of the fruits of the labor of working men. The government appetite for cash must be fed; when the wealthy avoid some of their share of that obligation, who do you think picks up that tab?
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The wealthy are already paying the lion's share.
 
There hasn't been anyone worth voting *for* since Reagan, so pretty much everyone who voted ever since is a crappy America imo.
 
It's not an option but for me it's someone without a stake in the game voting for wealth redistribution.

Incidentally, they tend to be college students.
 
Pinkie said:
In raw dollars, maybe. In proportion to the tax burden other classes of taxpayers carry?

No, not even close.
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That doesn't really matter, if consistency and equal treatment are of any concern. The top one percent of income earners pays around 40% of the federal income taxes, and around 50% pay no federal income tax, and a portion of those get earned income tax credits, without having even paid in. Imo, everyone should have an equal tax percentage debt period. Everyone should have some skin in the game, because if you're a recipient, and you can vote to have money from other people given to you, when you aren't contributing, then the system is corrupted already.
 
The political illiterate. I have a friend who places himself above voting for a candidate. He didn't even know what Romney looked like until a few weeks ago (be it known that I post this at the end of October). If he does end up voting it will be for whomever the advertising tells him to vote for. It is quite sad.
 
lizzie said:
That doesn't really matter, if consistency and equal treatment are of any concern. The top one percent of income earners pays around 40% of the federal income taxes, and around 50% pay no federal income tax, and a portion of those get earned income tax credits, without having even paid in. Imo, everyone should have an equal tax percentage debt period. Everyone should have some skin in the game, because if you're a recipient, and you can vote to have money from other people given to you, when you aren't contributing, then the system is corrupted already.
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The only way for a poor or working poor person to avoid federal income tax is to make so little, their exemptions and deductions cover the entire amount. No one in receipt of any taxable income can avoid federal wage taxes, unless they earn enough to get over the social security ceiling.

In many working poor families, the tax bill (total taxes) is 25% of total income or more.

Show me a wealthy family paying more than 10%, and I'll eat my monitor.
 
kenyon said:
The political illiterate. I have a friend who places himself above voting for a candidate. He didn't even know what Romney looked like until a few weeks ago (be it known that I post this at the end of October). If he does end up voting it will be for whomever the advertising tells him to vote for. It is quite sad.
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I wonder how many voters we have like this -- in such a close race, they may well choose our next president all by themselves.

When Romney drops a nuclear bomb on Pakistan and we all die in a nuclear winter, I'll have your friend to thank.
 
Donahue said:
It's not an option but for me it's someone without a stake in the game voting for wealth redistribution.

Incidentally, they tend to be college students.
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Another vote for establishment of a monarchy, eh?
 
In my mind it's the uninformed voter, no matter who they are voting for.
 
Pinkie said:
Another vote for establishment of a monarchy, eh?
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You're such a waste of time.

Why would you even ask a question if you're just going to argue with everyone about every answer they give?
 
Pinkie said:
I wonder how many voters we have like this -- in such a close race, they may well choose our next president all by themselves.
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There are MANY voters like this, Pinkie. Maybe not quite to the extreme of not knowing what the guy looks like, but definitely millions out there who have no clue of the RECORDS of either candidate, their platforms, what they stand for, etc....

I worked the 1990 election in Connecticut. That was the first time the "party lever" was taken off the voting booths. You would have thought these people were asked to read candidate names in Swahili for all the complaints we heard about having to push down all the individual levers on a party's row in the booth. None of these people had the slightest idea who they were voting for, except for the R or D after their name.
 
I don't understand why #4 is an option.

If both candidates are stupid, hackish and deceitful politicians... and neither of them share the majority of my beliefs... why should I vote? How about we the People get more options to vote for?
 
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