# As of today, who ya gonna vote for? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 3, 2016, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-who-ya-gonna-vote-for/758986 "2016-07-03T07:41:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-who-ya-gonna-vote-for/758986/1 "2016-07-03T07:41:25Z")
As of today, who ya gonna vote for? Pick 'em. ---
**Author:** ![NeonMadman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58f4c7/32.png) [@NeonMadman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NeonMadman)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-who-ya-gonna-vote-for/758986/2 "2016-07-03T21:10:49Z")
I guess I knew which way this board leaned politically, but I am a bit surprised at the complete one-sided-ness of the poll so far… ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-who-ya-gonna-vote-for/758986/3 "2016-07-03T21:17:48Z")
> [@NeonMadman](#): > > I guess I knew which way this board leaned politically, but I am a bit surprised at the complete one-sided-ness of the poll so far… In any other year, you could have counted on me to pick the Republican candidate and do my part to keep the boards diverse. But this year? No way. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-who-ya-gonna-vote-for/758986/4 "2016-07-03T21:22:14Z")
Regardless of how the board leans, the available choices alone explain the one sidedness, in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-who-ya-gonna-vote-for/758986/5 "2016-07-03T21:23:52Z")
Secretary Clinton has my vote. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-who-ya-gonna-vote-for/758986/6 "2016-07-03T21:27:15Z")
> [@NeonMadman](#): > > I guess I knew which way this board leaned politically, but I am a bit surprised at the complete one-sided-ness of the poll so far… Some people identify as right, some people identify as left, and some people identify as middle of the road…but few will publicly identify as bullgoose looney. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-who-ya-gonna-vote-for/758986/7 "2016-07-03T23:37:50Z")
I am not sure I can bring myself to vote \*for \*either major party candidate, though I might be able to stomach voting \*against \*one or the other (or both). Regardless, I will vote. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-who-ya-gonna-vote-for/758986/8 "2016-07-03T23:41:53Z")
Clinton is the only sane choice, not that this should be taken as an endorsement; she is simply the least bad, even though the gap between her and Trump is an ever-expanding chasm. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-who-ya-gonna-vote-for/758986/9 "2016-07-03T23:44:52Z")
Write in vote for Jack Burton. _Just remember what ol’ Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big ol’ storm right square in the eye and he says, “Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it.”_ Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-who-ya-gonna-vote-for/758986/10 "2016-07-03T23:53:14Z")
> [@NeonMadman](#): > > I guess I knew which way this board leaned politically, but I am a bit surprised at the complete one-sided-ness of the poll so far… See the board’s motto. Fight the ign’ance! You gotta fight the ign’ance that be! ---
**Author:** ![NeonMadman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58f4c7/32.png) [@NeonMadman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NeonMadman)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-who-ya-gonna-vote-for/758986/11 "2016-07-03T23:58:01Z")
> [@dracoi](#): > > In any other year, you could have counted on me to pick the Republican candidate and do my part to keep the boards diverse. But this year? No way. > [@elbows](#): > > Regardless of how the board leans, the available choices alone explain the one sidedness, in my opinion. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > Some people identify as right, some people identify as left, and some people identify as middle of the road…but few will publicly identify as bullgoose looney. > [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > Clinton is the only sane choice, not that this should be taken as an endorsement; she is simply the least bad, even though the gap between her and Trump is an ever-expanding chasm. Actually, the last I saw was that Trump was narrowing the gap somewhat, with around 35% of those polled. Which is my point about the board. As I look now, Trump is only polling about 4% on this admittedly unscientific poll. So the one-sided-ness here is not representative of the general population, which I think supports my earlier remark. However, another popular alternative was not included in the SDMB poll; [one recent poll](http://www.aol.com/article/2016/07/02/clintons-lead-over-trump-narrows-to-9-points-reuters-ipsos/21423123/)showed a 13% voter base who had a preference for a giant meteor hitting the earth than either candidate winning. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-who-ya-gonna-vote-for/758986/12 "2016-07-04T00:29:56Z")
> [@NeonMadman](#): > > Actually, the last I saw was that Trump was narrowing the gap somewhat, with around 35% of those polled. Which is my point about the board. As I look now, Trump is only polling about 4% on this admittedly unscientific poll. So the one-sided-ness here is not representative of the general population, which I think supports my earlier remark. > > However, another popular alternative was not included in the SDMB poll; [one recent poll](http://www.aol.com/article/2016/07/02/clintons-lead-over-trump-narrows-to-9-points-reuters-ipsos/21423123/)showed a 13% voter base who had a preference for a giant meteor hitting the earth than either candidate winning. I didn’t mean the gap in polling percentages, I meant the gap in sanity. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-who-ya-gonna-vote-for/758986/13 "2016-07-04T00:31:25Z")
Take a wild guess. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-who-ya-gonna-vote-for/758986/14 "2016-07-04T00:36:41Z")
> [@NeonMadman](#): > > Actually, the last I saw was that Trump was narrowing the gap somewhat, with around 35% of those polled. Which is my point about the board. As I look now, Trump is only polling about 4% on this admittedly unscientific poll. So the one-sided-ness here is not representative of the general population, which I think supports my earlier remark. … This board leans to the more highly educated and to the intellectually curious with or without a college degree. There are a sizable number of conservatives and GOP-leaners who fit that description but they are also the conservatives and GOP-leaners most likely to detest Trump. Trump’s greatest strength is with the resentfully willfully ignorant and that demographic crosses traditional party lines. Unfortunately this country contains many of them. It is a demographic somewhat underrepresented among regular contributors here though whatever their political identification may otherwise be. Yes, selection bias. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-who-ya-gonna-vote-for/758986/15 "2016-07-04T01:19:54Z")
I’m in a solid blue state, so unless for some reason I don’t think they’ll go solidly for Hillary I’ll be writing in a vote. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-who-ya-gonna-vote-for/758986/16 "2016-07-04T03:11:31Z")
Clinton. A liar, but closer to my views than Trump and with a much better temperament. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-who-ya-gonna-vote-for/758986/17 "2016-07-04T03:17:51Z")
At the moment it’s a toss up between writing myself in or voting Libertarian. My vote is utterly irrelevant. My state is solidly red, and my county is the reddest county in this very red state. ---
**Author:** ![Enlightening\_Meditation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecc23a/32.png) [@Enlightening\_Meditation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enlightening_Meditation)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-who-ya-gonna-vote-for/758986/18 "2016-07-04T03:52:36Z")
I plan to vote for Johnson/Weld - Libertarian Party. Both of the major party candidates have repeatedly demonstrated cartoonishly awful judgment in my view. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-who-ya-gonna-vote-for/758986/19 "2016-07-04T04:32:16Z")
At this point, it’s Clinton versus [Shrieking White-Hot Sphere Of Pure Rage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjonGtrCyVE)\*, so I’m going with the politician who falls within the normal parameters of being a fallible human politician, as opposed to the cartoonishly exaggerated personification of the Nietzschean Superman as filtered through decades of Southern Strategy political signalling and portrayed by a guy who’d be the villain in a movie where the hero is a dog. \*(The Onion made this video right after the 2012 election, BTW.) ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-who-ya-gonna-vote-for/758986/20 "2016-07-04T05:46:25Z")
What’s ‘writing in a vote’ if you don’t mind fighting this Aussie’s ignorance? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-who-ya-gonna-vote-for/758986.md?page=2)