# When asked who you're voting for... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 8, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-asked-who-youre-voting-for/467060 "2008-10-08T20:52:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-asked-who-youre-voting-for/467060/41 "2008-10-10T17:01:42Z")
> [@Taters](#): > > I don’t really discuss who I’m voting for at work. There are a couple of people, but most of the people I work with are…ahem…conservative. Same for me - who’d’a thunk it?!? 😉 I work for the Dept of Defense and the vast majority of my coworkers are very conservative, altho I’ve found a few kindred spirits. I avoid expressing any opinions about candidates unless I know I’m speaking with someone who can’t mess with my career or assignments. I may discuss issues in general and I’m bound by my Doper honor to correct any outright lies or misperceptions, but beyond that, I stay quietly in my cubicle, listening to some of the idiocy that swirls around me. I got a snarky comment directed at me when I opined that Sarah Palin’s \*voice \*was really annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-asked-who-youre-voting-for/467060/42 "2008-10-10T17:10:54Z")
> [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > I just answer honestly; that we want to know our supporters, so we can call and remind them to vote on election day. _files it away under “ways in which US elections are different from the ones I’m used to”_ I’m even affiliated to a party but if they wasted my affiliation money calling me to remind me it’s election day I’d break the card. And I don’t always vote for them. ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-asked-who-youre-voting-for/467060/43 "2008-10-10T17:11:41Z")
I’ll tell the truth. All they have to do is read my bumper sticker. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-asked-who-youre-voting-for/467060/44 "2008-10-10T17:46:32Z")
I tell the truth, which in this case is that I honestly don’t know who I’m voting for in the presidential election yet. If it’s an in-person conversation and they want to follow up (“Why are you undecided?” “Here’s why you should vote for the candidate _I_ like”. . . "), I disengage and gaze around the room with a vague expression, trying to convey without being rude that I’m not interested in a converations about politics. If that doesn’t work, I fake a seizure. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-asked-who-youre-voting-for/467060/45 "2008-10-10T18:00:47Z")
“Under which identity? I have a lot of different votes I’m planning to spread around.” ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-asked-who-youre-voting-for/467060/46 "2008-10-10T19:52:59Z")
At work, we’re not allowed to show any political affiliation. If asked, I say “I’m voting for the candidate I want to win” and smile. Elsewhere, I’ll say Obama. No big deal. ---
**Author:** ![Some\_FNG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/48db29/32.png) [@Some\_FNG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_FNG)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-asked-who-youre-voting-for/467060/47 "2008-10-10T19:59:07Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > If it’s a professional pollster I tell them I’m media and they almost always go away. They don’t like polling people in media, normally. > > If it’s on the street I tell people that, as a newspaperman, I don’t share such information as it would indicate an endorsement on my part and we don’t do endorsements. QFT. But I’d like to say, at least once, “Whomever is recommended by 4 out of 5 dentists.” ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-asked-who-youre-voting-for/467060/48 "2008-10-10T21:02:40Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > _files it away under “ways in which US elections are different from the ones I’m used to”_ > > I’m even affiliated to a party but if they wasted my affiliation money calling me to remind me it’s election day I’d break the card. And I don’t always vote for them. Well, here in Minnesota, we consider it money well spent. Last election, Minnesota had the highest turnout of any state in the USA. We expect it to be even higher this election. And I note that it was a higher turnout of voters than Scotland had in their last election. > [@BBC](#): > > Sir Neil McIntosh, Scotland’s electoral commissioner, said that the public was interested in politics but more needed to be done to improve voter turnout. And maybe your party should consider reminder phone calls – 4 of the 8 lowest turnouts in the entire UK were right there in Glasgow (Shettleston, Maryhill, Kelvin, & Springburn). ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-asked-who-youre-voting-for/467060/49 "2008-10-11T14:07:32Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > “Under which identity? I have a lot of different votes I’m planning to spread around.” Oh, I should _so_ use this with the kids I teach. I can’t wait for the parent phone calls to come in. “We don’t appreciate Mr. Mahaloth telling our children that he’s cheating in the election.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-asked-who-youre-voting-for/467060/50 "2008-10-11T18:16:28Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > “Under which identity? I have a lot of different votes I’m planning to spread around.” “Vote early, vote often.” I think you should gaslight the kids with that, **Mahaloth** - pretend they misunderstood you if the parents complain. “Oh, no, I meant you had to show a lot of id to vote.” You’re never too young to have people in authority messing with your head, are you? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-asked-who-youre-voting-for/467060.md?page=2)