Is there anyone here who doesn’t know who they’ll vote for in November ?
Do you really need the debates to make up your mind ?
I made up my mind in 1992.
Not myself, but I was at lunch with a co-worker a few weeks ago, and he mentioned that he would need to see the debates before he made up his mind. We didn’t talk much more about it.
Very, very, very few people who intend to vote still don’t know whether they’d prefer Romney or Obama to win. (I know exactly one such person, and frankly I don’t believe her.) The game at this point is for each side to get the people who prefer them to actually get out and vote.
Yup
Since Obama is a slam dunk in New York anyway, I haven’t decided yet whether or not to throw a third party a bone.
2002ish.
Already voted! For Obama, of course.
- Up until then, there was always the chance that a reasonable Republican could work with a Democratic Congress to actually solve our country’s problems. (E.g. I’d have voted for Bob Dole over Dukakis in 1988 if he’d been the GOP nominee.) There hasn’t been a time since when that was a possibility, and it’s clear that it won’t be a possibility again anytime soon.
My mind is made up for the rest of my days. After watching Republicans hold unemployment benefits hostage so that the wealthy can keep their tax cuts, I made a solemn vow to never again vote for a Republican for any office.
My basic voting principle for as long as I can remember has been “vote against the Republicans”. Unless the Republicans - the whole party, not just some individual - changes drastically, then there’s no circumstances whatsoever where I’d vote for one. The party is both evil and incompetent.
I’ve generally been in favor of fiscal conservative and social liberal which rarely results in a clear choice. However, the economic policies of the Republican party aren’t really fiscal conservative these days.
I pretty much know who I’m going to vote for but if Romney were to get really specific about his economic policy and it were to make sense, I could be swayed.
Only in the past 4 years have I made up my mind politically: before that, there was a chance that a pretty far left-of-center dem would lose in a hypothetical election against a moderate GOP candidate. But now, not only are there very few of each category left, the caucusing stakes are too high to allow the GOP to enact their literally crazy agenda, which moderate GOPers will go along with because of party loyalty. So until there is more party independence or a saner party, I am voting straight party ticket from now on.
There was never any question or doubt in my mind. I find it difficult to believe that there may be people out there who honestly don’t know who they will vote for. I do know there are many who would choose “none of the above” if that was an option, and most of them will probably stay home and then continue to bitch about how the government is run. But at this point, I’m more inclined to believe that anyone who actually plans to vote but claims to be undecided is just some kind of drama queen.
Eh, I know some people that don’t bother to pay attention to politics till a few weeks before the election. All they plan on doing vis-a-vis politics is vote on November 6th, so there isn’t really a reason for them to pay attention much before that.
I don’t think its that unusual.
I won’t vote early, as there is still time for some crazy shit to happen and cause me to change my mind, but for the most part, I expect to be voting Obama.
Having the luxury of living in New York, I’ll be voting for Gary Johnson. If I were still an Ohioan, I’d probably feel obliged to vote for Obama.
I’ve made up my mind. It didn’t take long.
Saying your mind is not made up must give you a feeling of being special, in that YOU are likely to decide the race.
If I vote republican it will be because I died and someone is committing fraud.