Take heart. Unless you live in a tightly contested state, it doesn’t matter. I live in CA, and no matter which way I vote, CA is going to go for Obama. I plan on voting for Obama, so that’s cool, but it hardly matters.
I should mention that I also hate the electoral college.
No love for McGovern, Mondale, Carter and Clinton?
(I haven’t voted for Republicans 50% of the time.)
Its your duty, as a citizen. Nobody is asking you to take a bullet, just a ballot.
You got Clinton right, anyway. For a middle-of-the-roader, your track record is embarrassing.
What was so bad about Bush I?
More than half of the time, the voting public would disagree with you.
Don’t vote, like you said above your vote doesn’t matter anyway.
There are times when I wish the SDMB functioned more like Facebook or Reddit, so that I could upvote or “like” a post. This is one of those times.
The idea of a Bush voter telling us *we *elected the wrong guy is the height of arrogance.
You and Bup are making real strong arguments for your side. :rolleyes:
That’s the position I’ve always been in. I really haven’t liked any of the choices I’ve had for president, it’s just a matter of voting for the lesser evil. But since I voted in solidly Democratic states, I usually wrote in Harold Stassen. Then I usually tell people I wrote in Mickey Mouse because they have no idea who Harold Stassen was.
I wasn’t aware we were trying to seduce you to the liberals’ POV.
Huh. I’d think a Libertarian candidate for President would want to be self-sufficient.
Change the reasons why you vote for a president. I’m not saying you should holdn’t the opinions you have but many of the things you list are controlled by the house and senate. That is where you vote for those issues.
The president I want will represent the USA abroad with skill and firmness. He will choose peace over war when he can. He will not enforce unjust laws and will vigously enforce just and necessary laws (define just and unjust as you please.) He will lead us by example rather than by force. And his wife will represent what is good in America and be a good example to us all. The president isn’t king, he is mayor of USAville and his main power, IMO, is where he leads us and the tone he sets, not what laws he plans to ask congress to make. Obama, while nowhere near perfect, will lead us in the general direction I want to go.
I voted for Obama last time, and that was probably the only time I actually was enthusiastic about the vote.
Well, now you are. [del]Seduce[/del] Persuade me.
I would but I have a really important task of anything else I could possibly think of to do right now.
I just went and took one of those quizzes . The result:
Barack Obama - 48%
Mitt Romney - 46%
My state isn’t “in play” for this election, but there might be someone reading this whose state is.
Persuade him/her.
You have a most interesting voting record. It appears to go all over the map.
Just so you know my prejudices, I’m a Democrat myself, and was brng up Catholic. But my first caution is not to dismiss Romney because he’s a Mormon. You say that neither candidate can be proud of their religion, but you seem to come down hard on the LDS guy in terms that, were I LDS, I’d find extremely insulting. You can make anyone’s religious beliefs sound absurd with very little effort, and it’s pretty irrelevant to their functioning as our Chief Executive, at least in most cases. Some people though JFK was going to take his marching orders from the Pope, but that didn’t happen. I’d be worried if any aspirant to the office thought he was getting his orders direct from On HIgh, but I don’t think that even the prayer-meeting-holding Bush II thought he was. Romney, I feel sure, wouldn’t
Of course, I disagree so thoroughly cwith Romney that I wouldn’t vote for him, myself. What you do is another matter.
I can’t agree with this. It REWARDS the unprecedentedly extreme obstructionism we’ve been seeing, and I wouldn’t want to encourage that. vote for him, if you want, for some better reason, but not for this.