Now that the nominees have officially been decided with Clinton clinching, it’s time to get Dopers’ thoughts on who they are voting for. Note: not who you’d like to see win, but who you will actually cast a vote for.
Couldn’t bring yourself to make it a public poll?
What do you mean, so that we can see everyone’s vote? It wasn’t intentional on my part, I just didn’t think of it since most polls I see here just show results. I voted for Johnson, who I am gratified to say, leads Trump on SDMB so far.
I thought you were on the record as saying you would vote for Clinton if it was close. And you live in the swing state of Florida soooo…
I promised not to Nader you. If I have to vote for Clinton to stop Trump I will. But assuming it’s not 2000, I’m voting for Johnson. Not as a protest either, but because I really think they have a shot at the 5% threshold for federal funding in the next election. We need an alternative to the GOP, and if us right-wingers have one maybe it’ll embolden the lefties to do the same for the Greens.
One thing I learned playing D&D: compatible alignments run on two axes: Good/Evil and Law/Chaos. Lawful Good might run with Chaotic Good or Lawful Evil and have generally the same level of discord with either. You only run into trouble with truly opposite characters. In my heart I align with Sanders because I’m Antiestablishment/Left. Trump works for a part of me because he is Antiestablishment/Right, and Hillary works because she’s Establishment/Left. So which to choose? I’m confident Congress will block the more extreme efforts of either candidate so they don’t worry me all that much.
But…Donald is Chaotic/Evil, and they’re annoying. Hillary is Lawful/Evil, and I really admire that kind of callous, ruthlessness in a leader. She’ll keep us safe and afloat, if also on the road to feudalism. Hopefully Bernie can network with an out-of-work community organizer and get some progressive machinery ramped up while Hillary is trying to herd the congressional cats.
I’m moving to California before the election so my vote will no longer matter. Now I can vote for Johnson and keep my libertarian streak.
You need an “undecided” option. I definitely want Clinton to win; Jill Stein is much closer to me ideologically, but I don’t think two terms on the city council of a small town really qualifies you for the Presidency.
Like most Americans, I live in a state where my vote will have no practical consequence, so I’ll probably decide when I walk into the voting booth whether it will be more emotionally satisfying to vote my principles with Stein or pile on to what I hope and expect to be a massive, Goldwater-style humiliation of Trump.
Clinton. Not a doubt in my mind who I’m voting for.
Yeah, it’s Clinton. Not in love with her by a long shot, but I am a realist, and Trump must be stopped at all costs.
I choose to think that I’m not voting for Clinton, as much as I’m voting against Trump.
Yeah, while I don’t like to vote for evil having Chaotic Evil leaders leads to, well, chaos.
Clinton. No question.
I stole this from a Doper who will have to go unattributed because I did not take note of who it was (sorry): “I don’t think Clinton is good in every way, but I think she is better than Trump in every way.”
Voting for Clinton, proudly.
Voting for Clinton, while gritting my teeth. I don’t even like to say it aloud, I dislike her so much. But Trump would be an unmitigated disaster.
Hillary. With the understanding that she’ll be Obama’s third term, by proxy, and that Bill will be personally responsible for maintaining Michelle Obama’s White House vegetable garden. Don’t screw it up, Bill. I don’t want to hear of a single weed.
I’m sort of weirdly proud that Trump is coming in fourth in this SDMB poll. As of right now, that is. It could change I suppose, but I bet it won’t.
Oh, yes: I’m voting for Hillary Clinton.
Johnson is the Republican staunch Democrats say they would vote for in order to pretend they are a nonpartisan moderate. Unsurprisingly, he doesn’t get any support from these folks, and wouldn’t still if he was running second in the polls to Clinton. The unwashed masses have disintegrated into primitive tribalism thanks to state education and propaganda.
Why would a Democrat vote for a Republican, even one with principles? We’re Democrats because we believe in most of the things that Democrats do, and Hillary shares many more of our beliefs than any Republican, even those who hide behind the fig leaf of libertarianism.
I’m talking about the folks who claim to be moderates but really are just tribal Democrats who want to be taken more seriously.