# What accusation about your preferred pres. candidate, if proven, would cost him/her your vote? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 3, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accusation-about-your-preferred-pres-candidate-if-proven-would-cost-him-her-your-vote/745101 "2016-02-03T21:28:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accusation-about-your-preferred-pres-candidate-if-proven-would-cost-him-her-your-vote/745101/1 "2016-02-03T21:28:46Z")
Before answering, please bear in mind that I’m asking about the candidate you are actually planning to vote for–not an abstract candidate, and certainly not a candidate your already oppose. For instance: I’d only vote for Ben Carson if he were running against the Joker, so even if it were shown to be true that he lied his ass off in hi autobiography, I am disqualified from giving that reason. And another thing. I prefer that we talk about things your candidate has _already_ been accused off, not some outrageous hypothetical. Again using myself as an example: I’m planning to vote for Secretary Clinton. Now I _could_ say that, if she were proven to be an accomplice in Bill Cosby’s rapes, I’d become a Sanders supporter – but of course, not even Rush Limbaugh has accused her of that. But while I don’t care about her tolerating her husband’s infidelities, if it was proven to me that (a) Bill Clinton had actually committed a rape, and (b) Sec. Clinton had participated in a cover-up of that fact, I’d switch candidates. There, the housekeeping’s out of the way, so I’ll recapitulate the question. _Americans, please think of the presidential candidate your are currently intending to vote for. What extant accusation against that person, if proved true, would cost him or her your support?_ --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accusation-about-your-preferred-pres-candidate-if-proven-would-cost-him-her-your-vote/745101)._