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Have you ever regretted your vote for a US president?

Have you ever regretted your vote for a US president?

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Attaching poll. If your answer is yes, who and why?
 
I started voting in the 2000 election (what an election to start with, huh?) I voted Bush, Bush, McCain, Romney and McMullin. I don't regret any of them. (I almost forgot the McCain year -- tried to block it out, I guess).
 
I'm not sure. I didn't vote for Trump, but sometimes wish I had when I see what kind of people his opponents are. I value the GOP and don't like it when someone cheapens the party. I get REALLY annoyed at people that act like you're supposed to become a Democrat just because you see Trump's liabilities.
 
In 1980, I voted for John Anderson, I did not like Carter, and was unsure of Regan.
My regret is that it was a valueless vote.
 
X Factor said:
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The 2000 election was my first ever time voting. I thought Clinton had done a solid job, but didn't care for Gore, and thought it would be a good idea to switch it up. I wanted to vote for McCain, but he lost the primary, and I thought Bush was an idiot. So I decided to protest the two-party system and vote for Ralph Nader. I'll never make that mistake again. I've voted Democrat across the board in every election since.
 
No. I have no regrets.

Even when I was a young starting voter I accepted the fact that no one available would be "perfect." So I based my vote on my view of the positives and negatives of each available candidate, and how they best reflected possible action on my socio-political concerns.
 
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Yes. I voted for Carter because of Watergate and have regretted that vote ever since.
 
SDET said:
I'm not sure. I didn't vote for Trump, but sometimes wish I had when I see what kind of people his opponents are. I value the GOP and don't like it when someone cheapens the party. I get REALLY annoyed at people that act like you're supposed to become a Democrat just because you see Trump's liabilities.
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We don't expect you to be a Dem or vote Dem. We expect you to put pressure on Trump. His election was won due to a hardcore base. He panders to that hardcore base. He has pretty much locked in his political strategy to keeping that base happy. When he acts in an inappropriate manner...call him out on it. Make him act like he should act. At the moment he does practically anything he wants and his base/conservatives will bend over backwards to provide cover or validate his actions.

The only reason he claimed to of misspoke in the Putin conference was because of his political allies saying he'd gone to far. If it was just the regular media he would of just ignored the criticism and tell his base it's that "fake news" up to no good again.
 
No, but I was halfway tempted to vote Jill Stein in 12 and 16 cause I thought I was being edgy and I'm glad I didn't.
 
I have only regretted my vote once.... not for US president of course.

Back in the day I was a political activist in the main youth wing of the right wing Liberal party in Denmark. The party at the time was great, with the right views and ideas. One of the young and up and coming people in the youth wing was running for a seat in the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen. My friends and I in the youth wing campaigned for him and were very active. He did not get elected in the end, as he was in a very "red" aka left wing area of Copenhagen. In the end he moved district and got in at the next election and is today a top minister in the current government.. he is also a jackass and a lying piece of ****. He is sadly one of the reasons that the Danish Liberal party has gone far far to the right and pissed on its own fundamental ideas. That is election, where I voted for him.. is the only vote I have ever regretted.. even though he did not get in.
 
MrWonka said:
The 2000 election was my first ever time voting. I thought Clinton had done a solid job, but didn't care for Gore, and thought it would be a good idea to switch it up. I wanted to vote for McCain, but he lost the primary, and I thought Bush was an idiot. So I decided to protest the two-party system and vote for Ralph Nader. I'll never make that mistake again. I've voted Democrat across the board in every election since.
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I’m guessing it’s a lot more common to regret a vote for someone who didn’t actually win than it is to regret a vote for someone who did. My question is specifically about regretting voting for someone who did become president.
 
StillBallin75 said:
No, but I was halfway tempted to vote Jill Stein in 12 and 16 cause I thought I was being edgy and I'm glad I didn't.
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I really want her and Al Franken to run for something together on the same ticket.
 
I regret voting for Bush. I was under the mistaken impression that I was a Republican, and I found Al Gore to be repellent. Had Gore won, it's at least possible that we could have avoided a seventeen year long war and the disaster in Iraq, though he surely would have responded to 9/11 in some way. It's anyone's guess.
 
Helix said:
I regret voting for Bush. I was under the mistaken impression that I was a Republican, and I found Al Gore to be repellent. Had Gore won, it's at least possible that we could have avoided a seventeen year long war and the disaster in Iraq, though he surely would have responded to 9/11 in some way. It's anyone's guess.
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I was 10 yrs old in 2000, just curious what was it about Gore back then that turned people off.
 
Helix said:
I regret voting for Bush. I was under the mistaken impression that I was a Republican, and I found Al Gore to be repellent. Had Gore won, it's at least possible that we could have avoided a seventeen year long war and the disaster in Iraq, though he surely would have responded to 9/11 in some way. It's anyone's guess.
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He probably would of responded by a war in Afghanistan...which is what Bush did that was right. The Bush administration SOLD the war to the American public. It was like a year long blitz of people on TV, leaked information about aluminum tubes, cherry picked intel...etc etc.

I don't see Gore going that route. The Bush administration knew from the get go they wanted to get rid of Saddam and 9/11 gave them an opportunity.
 
X Factor said:
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Yes, of sorts I suppose. I ended up regretting my support for George W. Bush, and he is the reason I switched from the GOP to the Libertarian party.
 
iliveonramen said:
He probably would of responded by a war in Afghanistan...which is what Bush did that was right. The Bush administration SOLD the war to the American public. It was like a year long blitz of people on TV, leaked information about aluminum tubes, cherry picked intel...etc etc.

I don't see Gore going that route. The Bush administration knew from the get go they wanted to get rid of Saddam and 9/11 gave them an opportunity.
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Afghanistan would probably still have happened, but Iraq was the brainchild of Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bolton and Co. There was no rhyme or reason to it from the point of view of realism-grounded policymakers and analysts.
 
voted Ronny RayGun for the 1980 election; did not make that mistake in 1984 ............
 
StillBallin75 said:
I was 10 yrs old in 2000, just curious what was it about Gore back then that turned people off.
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Mostly, it was just a response to eight years under Bill Clinton. Not that Clinton did a bad job, just that a lot of people felt at the time like it would be good to switch things up a bit. Similarly to why a lot of stupid people voted for Trump after two terms under Obama.

People also felt like he was a bit rigid, and lacked a genuine personality. At the time it seemed like America could do no wrong, and it didn't really matter who was in the White House because our economy was so phenomenal.
 
MrWonka said:
So you're saying you haven't learned anything new since the 1970's?

Maybe you should try learning some history leading up to the Carter administration before you decide how to judge him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état
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I lived through Carter's presidency. I lived through Watergate. I lived through Vietnam. My dopey reactions to Vietnam and Watergate begat my dopey vote for Carter. I guess, I reacted, again, when I voted for Reagan in 1980.
Reagan was good in some things and bad in others but he wasn't an abomination like Carter.
 
Ikari said:
Yes, of sorts I suppose. I ended up regretting my support for George W. Bush, and he is the reason I switched from the GOP to the Libertarian party.
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Keep coming. Just a little bit further left, and you'll be a lot happier with yourself.
 
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