Americans: Would you vote for a felon?
- Yes, without reservation.
- Probably, but it depends on …
- Probably not, but it depends on …
- No, absolutely note.
Inspired by my other thread for non-Americans voting for a felon where I try to understand the perspective of Republican voters. Suppose the candidate for your preferred party is a felon. Furthermore, suppose that the other candidates are not felons. For example, Biden is a felon, Trump and RFK Jr. are not felons. Everything else stays the same. Trump still stands for what he stands for, as do RFK Jr. and Biden. In order to remove any other criminality, furthermore assume that J6 did not happen, and that Trump did not steal and refuse to return a bunch of classified documents. In other words, the heart of this question is
Would you still vote for your preferred candidate to promote your agenda of choice (or prevent the agenda of the opposition) even if they were a convicted felon?
Feel free to generalize it more if you wish to be simply about parties and not about particular candidates. This came up because while I was making a snack last night I said to myself “I just cannot imagine voting for a felon. … … … Well, wait a second. Would I if the alternative is the conservative party?” And the conclusion I came to is, unless it were a something like murder or rape, I probably would vote for a felon over the conservative party. I.e., I found myself understanding the perspective of Republican voters that probably dislike Biden more than I dislike Pierre (the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada).