Veggie Regular

Join Date: May 2012
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Perhaps candidates should be required to play a round on the game show Jeopardy!
It would have saved us from the entire bush administration.. |
the person who wins is invariably the person who spends the most campaign dollars,
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As the old saying goes, not making a choice is a choice.
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...The ballot is filled with... the election of local leaders, etc.
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I feel like every election I have been of age to vote in has come up with a choice of being bent to the left or right to get screwed with no good option either way. I have not felt that I could vote for ANY candidate in all good conscience so far. I guess this election does have one candidate who is actually qualified to be president but I don't support his political leanings whatsoever and feel his leadership would be highly detrimental as his views go against the American way. The candidate I agree with most is not qualified whatsoever to run the country regardless if I agree with some (and just some) of his views and I feel voting for him could be detrimental if he won due to his lack of political experience. I also have the option of a hypocritical, lying traitor facing indictment who *expects* my vote because I share the same anatomy or any one of a few miscellaneous religious nuts who would be likely drag their "strong religious beliefs" into office with them and apply them where they don't belong. What kind of choice is that to have to make?! Is it *really* the right decision to vote for the sake of voting, even if you *honestly* do not feel any candidate is a good choice and any of them would in fact be detrimental? I just can't bring myself to participate in this failing train wreck of a system and feel doing so would be doing the country a greater disservice as an individual than not voting would. Perhaps if everyone who didn't have a candidate they truly supported just didn't vote, there would be a clear message sent that changes NEED to be made. Instead, SO MANY people just begrudgingly vote for whatever candidate they feel obligated to as per their parties say so (usually the one cherry picked by the media with the biggest mouth and budget).
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I'm sort of puzzled why so many are going to vote for clinton just for her gender. The last female presidential candidate (Cynthia McKinney) didnt get that, I think she got 0.1% of the vote and that was just 8 years ago.
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There's more to elections in the US than just deciding on president. The ballot is filled with measures relating to taxes, bonds, infrastructure improvements, changes to the laws, the election of local leaders, etc.
I think it's short-sighted when people look at the presidential candidates and decide they aren't going to vote, because there are a lot of local issues that will directly affect them that are on that same ballot. Here in California, the campaign for everything on the ballot, except the presidency, usually ranges from 2-6 months. Overall, the US presidential campaign is very long because it's national and because of the schedule of the primaries. From Feb 1 to mid June the parties in each state are voting to determine the candidate of their party they will support at the convention in August. Then the candidates are officially named for the national election that takes place in November. It is like a roving carnival during the primaries. There is an inflated importance attached to the first few states that hold their primaries like Iowa and New Hampshire because they can determine the front-runner. Candidates who don't perform well in the primaries in the early states will have a hard time attracting donors to keep their campaign going in upcoming primaries in other states. Usually by mid-March the candidate for each party has been settled. This year, because there are so many candidates, and so much more money flowing from political action committees who can hide their donors, it's going to feel like a longer slog. |
I'm sort of puzzled why so many are going to vote for clinton just for her gender.
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The last female presidential candidate (Cynthia McKinney) didnt get that, I think she got 0.1% of the vote and that was just 8 years ago.
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I think that very, very few people will vote for a woman just because she's a woman
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but many people won't vote for a woman because she's a woman.
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I do think that a number of people, having decided that either of two or more candidates being largely acceptable to them, will vote for the one who happens to be a woman, for a number of reasons, one being that it's time certain barriers are broken.
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Seven years ago, I was torn between voting for Obama or Hillary. I like(d) them both, and I really want(ed) both the color and the gender barrier to the Presidency to be broken during my lifetime. It was only when Bill Clinton started playing the race card in a particularly nasty way that I decided to vote for Obama.
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There's never been a Republican woman running for national office for whom I would have voted. However, I may well have voted for Colin Powell, if he had run back in the day before the Bush administration made him their patsy wrt Iraq.
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I have different political views than you, but I want to say I wish more people gave it the respectful thought that you do, as well being open to discussion. I try and listen to political radio talk and can't stomach the divisive hate so many people express against all who feel differently.
We can't have freedom if we can't respect that we're not same |
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