# If the election was held tomorrow

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-election-was-held-tomorrow/717268>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [April 9, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-election-was-held-tomorrow/717268 "2015-04-09T22:35:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2015, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-election-was-held-tomorrow/717268/21 "2015-04-10T19:46:45Z")

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I voted for Istvan, mainly because a party platform of using science to improve the human condition is something I can get behind. I imagine he’d have a hard time governing though.

Everson probably has the experience to be decent at governing but some of his policies are as wackadoodle as Cruz.

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**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2015, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-election-was-held-tomorrow/717268/22 "2015-04-10T20:16:21Z")

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Vermin Supreme? Presumably the one who didn’t get to sing with Ms. Ross?

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**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:** [April 11, 2015, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-election-was-held-tomorrow/717268/23 "2015-04-11T03:43:05Z")

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> [@Mr\_Shine](#):
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> Terry Jones, even if he was the most forgetable Python.

Yeah, me too. I don’t think he’s eligible, though, being a Brit and all.

> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> Well, I for one mistook Zoltan Istvan for Zaphod Beeblebrox.

Zoltan’s just this guy, y’know?

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**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-election-was-held-tomorrow/717268/24 "2015-04-11T07:18:47Z")

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Given the choices, I’m not going to vote - in this poll, that is. If we were actually presented with all of the [currently declared candidates](http://2016.presidential-candidates.org/), I think I could find somebody more palatable that the 2016 Fringe Collection.

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