I dislike Hillary, but I will be voting for her. My dislike stems, not from the smear campaign, but from an occasion when she came down squarely and actively on the wrong side–the anti-free-speech side–of an issue that was important to me. I didn’t like what she tried to do, how she tried to do it, or what I believe were her reasons for it. However, that issue is settled law now; her side lost, and it would be difficult to overturn, even if she gets to pick several Supremes. Despite my grudge, I regard her as competent and generally inclined to do things that I think will be more beneficial for the country and the world than any generic Republican candidate would, let alone Trump.
So, yes, I will be voting for her. Trump increases the urgency, but is far from the determining factor.
(As an aside, I will go against the trend here and say that I dislike Biden more than I dislike Hillary. Again, I have specific reasons for it, and they have nothing to do with his “gaffe-prone” persona.)
Hillary will make a fine President, and her election as a woman will advance America’s progressive path. Failures during her Administration will probably be caused by GOP obstruction, not Hillary’s own qualities.
I would have preferred Biden as the nominee but not because I think he’d make a better President. I’d just be more confident of November victory with Biden running. (Prediction markets still show the farcical short-fingered man with a 26% chance. :eek: )
Pretty much, though if the Republicans had nominated Cruz I’d have voted for Hillary as well. Basically, while I don’t think that the Dems really want my vote all that much, the Republicans have completely rejected independent centrists such as myself and have jumped the shark in this election cycle, at least IMHO. They COULD have gotten my vote if they would have run someone I could stomach, since I’m no big fan of Clinton, but instead they seem bound and determined to drive folks like me away at every opportunity. So, Clinton it is.
Yes, but only because of the way your question was worded.
Absent Trump I would still support Hillary, I voted for her both in this primary and in the 2008 primary, but at this point Hillary’s main selling point is that she isn’t Trump.
It’s rather like asking, is the reason you are jumping into the lake because it is a warm day and the lake looked inviting for a swim or is it more because you are currently on fire.
That’s what it’s come down to for me. I went into the primaries hoping for Kasich or Bush to win, but with Trump’s ascension, I’ll be voting for Hillary.
Like PJ O’Rourke said (paraphrasing), she’s wrong about everything, but wrong within normal parameters.
I like Clinton. I supported her early on in 2008 before Obama won me over. I still think she’s great, and it annoys me that she’s had to fend off GOP attacks for the last 25 years. Part of me wants her to win just to spite them
I’m not asserting any logic, so there is no lapse. I am explaining my experience, which does not jive with your assertion, and am asking for information I can look at to decide if my experience is typical or not. Not sure why you think that’s a lapse in logical argument. I’ve seen lots of polls, too, but none that assert the 90% number you are claiming.
Like many here, I’m not thrilled with Clinton, but I do like her. I’d vote for her over any of the Republicans that ran in the primaries.
In 2012 I volunteered for the Obama campaign, the first time in my life I volunteered for any campaign. I got concerned that Romney might actually win, and decided I wanted to do something to help prevent that.
I had decided back in the spring that I wouldn’t volunteer for the Clinton campaign. I live in Illinois, which is pretty solidly Blue so my efforts working locally aren’t too likely to mean much, and I was making phone calls for Obama which is not something I really liked doing.
However now that Trump is (almost definitely) the Republican candidate, I’ll volunteer for the Clinton campaign. Health issues made it hard in 2012 to go on trips to swing states to help out, but I should be able to do that this time.
So, my vote for Clinton is not a vote against Trump, but my volunteer work for Clinton will be volunteer work against Trump.
I don’t like Clinton at all. The dynasty aspect is important, but she’s also way to hawkish and tied to Wall Street for my tastes. However, she certainly has the experience and temperament to be a successful president even if I don’t like her policies or her last name.
I’d say I’m mostly voting against Trump, since Clinton doesn’t excite me at all and I can’t muster the enthusiasm to campaign for her. But she’s better than just about any Republican - who would only be more hawkish and more beholden to Wall Street than she is.
I think I’m fairly well-informed about the job of the President, and there’s one main thing I want from a candidate: a steady hand under fire. Hillary is well-proven on that score. I don’t expect perfection, just the willingness and diligence to work things out.
Trump has none of those qualities. Hillary all the way.
Plenty of people don’t get their first choice on the ballot. Happens all the time. It’s fine with me. Hillary is acceptable, and maybe will even be pretty decent as president.
But it really doesn’t matter. My choice is Clinton or Trump, and I choose Clinton, regardless of whether that’s based on liking Clinton or hating Trump.
I am solidly Clinton and I am casting my ballot for her. I find it weird when people suggest that she’s part of a dynasty. If Hillary Rodham had married Bill Jones, she still would have been the same ambitious woman that she is today. I expect should would have entered politics eventually as well.
I’m surprised I’m the first person to say that my primary motivation is neither pro-Hillary nor anti-Trump. It’s anti-Republican-party, and (somewhat less so) pro-Democratic-party.
Given the Republican behavior in congress, their anti-intellectualism, the importance of the supreme court, and the generally loathsome nature of the party as a whole, it would take a combination of a once-in-a-century amazing Republican and a once-in-a-century-unacceptable Democrat to get me to vote for a Republican. As it turns out, we do have a once-in-a-century-despicable candidate… but on the Republican side, which just makes an easy decision easier.
And I think Clinton is a fine candidate. Not particularly better or worse than, say, John Kerry. So I’ll happily vote for her.
And I very much like the idea of a first woman president, although that’s just a fringe benefit.