# Who will you vote for in November? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 6, 2020, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-you-vote-for-in-november/853244 "2020-05-06T01:44:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-you-vote-for-in-november/853244/61 "2020-05-07T15:53:03Z")
Biden was nowhere near to my top pick among the Dem field, and he has 'waaaay too much baggage for my liking, but he would be much, _much_ better than the incumbent, whom I loathe. ---
**Author:** ![TimfromNapa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@TimfromNapa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimfromNapa)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-you-vote-for-in-november/853244/62 "2020-05-07T19:59:56Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > No choice for '“ham sandwich”? > > OK, Dem then. Ham sandwich? Is that what became of the Yippies’ 1968 Presidential candidate Pigasus? ---
**Author:** ![TimfromNapa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@TimfromNapa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimfromNapa)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-you-vote-for-in-november/853244/63 "2020-05-07T20:03:28Z")
> [@RioRico](#): > > I clicked on Dem but since my California won’t go for Putin’s puppy I have other options.Maybe Cthulhu. We’ll see who’s alive come November 2020 - and if the US isn’t under martial-law lockdown then. Not this wimpy Shelter In Place stuff but a REAL lockdown with troops in the streets as I’ve seen elsewhere. I think Trump is Cthulhu. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-you-vote-for-in-november/853244/64 "2020-05-07T23:07:44Z")
> [@RioRico](#): > > My summary. So you’ll accept a man who bragged of multiple sexual assaults and said he wanted to fuck his underage daughter. I find your values curious. > [@SmartAleq](#): > > Reading comprehension is obviously something you lack. Reread my initial post in this thread. Then read this very slowly: I. WILL. NOT. VOTE. FOR. A. RAPIST. If reading comprehension is at issue, note that you failed to see that RioRico did NOT type ‘so you’ll **vote for** a man who bragged of multiple sexual assaults…’ What RioRico actually posted was “so you’ll ACCEPT a man…” (My emphasis.) By failing to vote for the Democrat opposing Trump, you are indeed _accepting_ Trump. No matter how you try to read it otherwise. Attempts to redefine Biden as “a rapist” notwithstanding, the fact is that there simply isn’t evidence that such a redefinition is reasonable. Whereas with Trump you _know_ you are supporting–by failing to vote for the only genuine alternative–a self-described assaulter. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-you-vote-for-in-november/853244/65 "2020-05-07T23:14:04Z")
> [@TimfromNapa](#): > > I think Trump is Cthulhu. So we’ll have moved onto blood sacrifice by then? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-you-vote-for-in-november/853244/66 "2020-05-07T23:42:30Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > I also will not vote for a man who gropes young girls repeatedly and makes them uncomfortable, I will not vote for a man who touches women without their consent, I will not vote for a man who grabs women’s hands and restrains them in order to make his point, I will not vote for a man who harassed and badgered a woman who brought sexual harassment charges against a SCOTUS appointee during his confirmation hearings, I will not vote for a man who cannot complete a sentence. All of these behaviors have extensive video and photographic evidence dating back decades. > > I also will not vote for the person who wrote the Patriot Act. I will not vote for the person who pushed the Crime Bill that resulted in a massive increase in incarceration rates. I will not vote for a person who thinks that a woman’s right to choose is not absolute. I will not vote for a segregationist. I will not vote for anyone who voted to begin the Iraq war. I will not vote for a person who is not fullheartedly in favor of Medicare For All, especially not one who declared, this year, that he would veto such a bill if it passed both houses and ended up on his desk if he were president. I will not vote for a person who will stand up in this day and age and call marijuana a “gateway drug.” > > I hope I’ve made myself clear enough on this issue that you will refrain from any further limp attempts at vote shaming me. I admire your steadfast rectitude. Should we call an EMT when you turn blue from holding your breath, or do you have a DNR on file? ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-you-vote-for-in-november/853244/67 "2020-05-08T05:07:51Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > I admire your steadfast rectitude. Should we call an EMT when you turn blue from holding your breath, or do you have a DNR on file? Oh, c’mon, just own it that you’re fine with rape and people who commit it. You defend [this guy](https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/politics-government/article242527331.html)? Wow. I would have thought that “not being a rapist” would be a low bar to clear and being one would be a disqualifier but here we are. By the way, might want to brush up on your Brockroach Ops manual because you’re woefully ineffective in your attempt at dismissing valid concerns regarding the suitability of a candidate to hold high office. That level of turpitude in rape apology is vaguely impressive, although it says way more about you than it does me. Pull up your pants, your ass is showing. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-you-vote-for-in-november/853244/68 "2020-05-08T05:42:11Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > …You defend [this guy](https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/politics-government/article242527331.html)? … That only proves that there was a complaint about some harassment, not by who did it. Same with the phone call. But you see- that evidence _disproves_ her rape charge. Note, when Reade first came out with “Biden sniffed my hair”, people generally believed her. _But no one cared._ So her kremlin handlers had her change it to forcible rape- something never ever even hinted at. And no one believes. I note you didnt reply to my point by point debunking of your screed earlier. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-you-vote-for-in-november/853244/69 "2020-05-08T06:09:55Z")
[The agonizing story of Tara Reade](https://www.vox.com/2020/5/7/21248713/tara-reade-joe-biden-sexual-assault-accusation) _I started reporting on Tara Reade’s story a year ago. Here’s what I found, and where I’m stuck. By Laura McGann_ > [@](#): > > All of this leaves me where no reporter wants to be: mired in the miasma of uncertainty. I wanted to believe Reade when she first came to me, and I worked hard to find the evidence to make certain others would believe her, too. I couldn’t find it. None of that means Reade is lying, but it leaves us in the limbo of Me Too: a story that may be true but that we can’t prove. I have not absorbed the details so I render no judgement - but her changing stories hurt her credibility, as do what I’ve seen of the context of those changes. I do not defend Biden (I was for Bernie in 2016). I also do not believe in guilt without compelling evidence. I _DO_ believe the current POTUS is a molester of underage girls, a confessed sexual abuser, a known bribe dispenser, a fraudster and money launderer, a sociopathic liar, and a filthy stinking traitor. I’ll produce cites to back my points if you wish. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-you-vote-for-in-november/853244/70 "2020-05-08T12:30:51Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > Oh, c’mon, just own it that you’re fine with rape and people who commit it. You defend [this guy](https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/politics-government/article242527331.html)? Wow. I would have thought that “not being a rapist” would be a low bar to clear and being one would be a disqualifier but here we are. By the way, might want to brush up on your Brockroach Ops manual because you’re woefully ineffective in your attempt at dismissing valid concerns regarding the suitability of a candidate to hold high office. That level of turpitude in rape apology is vaguely impressive, although it says way more about you than it does me. Pull up your pants, your ass is showing. I don’t want to see rapists holding public office any more than you do. I was merely commenting on your Seussian, “Would not, Could not…” posting style. Seems a touch overwrought given the lack of certainty of Ms. Reade’s claims and an abundance of reason to doubt her ever changing testimonies. That said, I take her seriously and await any substantive evidence she can provide for her claims. If so provided, I would expect and insist that Biden drop out of the race immediately. ---
**Author:** ![sudont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@sudont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sudont)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-you-vote-for-in-november/853244/71 "2020-05-08T15:59:38Z")
> [@Boudicca90](#): > > I’m voting Green this year, as Biden is guaranteed to win California. I hope he beats Trump, but I’m done voting for conservatives and centrists, regardless of what party they belong to. And no, I don’t want Biden to beat Trump by a huge margin. I want the election to be close, to show the Dems that even as horrible as Trump is, they need to do way better. They’ll never get that message if they haven’t already. And they clearly haven’t. Most people knew what Trump was before 2016. I certainly did. As long as these two parties have a stranglehold on American electoral politics, they’ll fight tooth and nail for their own status quo. This de facto two-party system needs to go. People act as if it were enshrined in the Constitution. As does the electoral college, (which failed us the one and only time it was needed). ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-you-vote-for-in-november/853244/72 "2020-05-08T18:01:49Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > I don’t want to see rapists holding public office any more than you do. I was merely commenting on your Seussian, “Would not, Could not…” posting style. Seems a touch overwrought given the lack of certainty of Ms. Reade’s claims and an abundance of reason to doubt her ever changing testimonies. That said, I take her seriously and await any substantive evidence she can provide for her claims. If so provided, I would expect and insist that Biden drop out of the race immediately. The posting style is because every damned time I bring up that I won’t vote for Biden I get some clueless moron insisting that this MUST MEAN I’m voting for Trump, completely ignoring me when I say I’m voting third party. Every damned time–this is not the only place on the internet I spend time, not by an order of magnitude, and the sheer weight of these shills with their inept vote shaming behavior is stultifying–just as they intend it to be. So I revert to short declarative sentences to make it harder for them to use their copypasta replies and talking points. The thing with Biden is that we have decades of his problematical behavior with women right out there on camera. As for Tara Reade in specific, we have about a million times more documentation of her allegation than was present when the Democrats went insane over Dr Blasey-Ford’s allegations against Kavanaugh. We have a contemporary recording of her mother on a nationally syndicated show calling in with her concerns regarding her daughter’s employment indicating they were so severe that the family was debating going to the press with it. We have sworn testimony in a court case from '96 from Reade’s ex husband documenting that her experience with sexual harassment in Biden’s office had left her notably traumatized years later. We have statements from the interns she supervised that she was abruptly removed from her duties and fired soon after the incident took place. She spoke to her neighbor about the incident in '95 and explicitly stated that Biden raped her. Biden has refused to open his Senate documents held sealed at the University of Delaware, which seems odd if, in fact as he states the incident “never happened.” Never happened means no documentation, right? What’s he afraid will come to light? All his mindless sycophant Blue MAGA chuds wiping every reference to #MeToo from their social media accounts right after Reade’s accusation came to light was just the diarrhea cherry on the shit sundae. I simply refuse to go along with this rah-rah team approach to politics in which any behavior from “your guy” is excused while identical behavior from the “other guy” is excoriated. I will not sign on to that kind of hypocrisy. Aside from the moral aspect, Biden offers me literally nothing of what I want from a president. Nothing. His history with sexual harassment, both him personally and what he did to Anita Hill are complete disqualifiers as far as I’m concerned, then we can start on the long list of abhorrent policies he’s espoused and upheld over the decades. Every citizen of this country has the right to vote the way they please and I am simply demanding the same respect as I give–I do NOT tell people how to vote, but I’m more than willing to explain why I will vote the way I do. All this vote shaming and identity politics and meaningless ORANGE MAN BAD RAWR nonsense means literally nothing to me aside from me being absolutely sick of hearing it over and over and over with mindless idiots acting as though A) they thought up these talking points themselves and B) that they’re ever so clever and nobody else has ever said these bullshit things before. It’s like that fucking stupid dickhead who jumps in on page five of a thread without having read it with that disingenuous “OMG I can’t believe nobody’s brought up [multiple things that were posted right on the first page]!!ELEVENTY1!!” It’s annoying and I get testy. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-you-vote-for-in-november/853244/73 "2020-05-08T19:19:34Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > The posting style is because every damned time I bring up that I won’t vote for Biden I get some clueless moron insisting that this MUST MEAN I’m voting for Trump, completely ignoring me when I say I’m voting third party…Every citizen of this country has the right to vote the way they please and I am simply demanding the same respect as I give–I do NOT tell people how to vote, but I’m more than willing to explain why I will vote the way I do… Well, altho technically you arent voting for trump, you\* are\* doing what the GOp and the kremlin wants you to do- not vote for Biden. You havent responded to my point by point dissection of your "reasons’ for not voting Biden. You made this list of why you wouldnt vote for biden- and almost every single point was wrong. Not only that, almost every point was based in russian disinformation. So many Bernie followers have taking the bait the kremlin put out- hook, line and sinker, and cheerfully spread that disinformation over the internet. \*So, you wont vote for Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD] or Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner. (They wrote the Patriot act) Note that everyone voted for that bill, including Sanders. only 3 did not. So, any one who was in Congress in 2001 is thus disqualified by this reasoning. Think about that. Everyone. Indeed, Biden was a big supporter of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, so was Bernie Sanders. He voted Aye. It passed with a big majority. Abortion? If elected, Biden says he would codify Roe v. Wade into federal law and restore federal funding to Planned Parenthood and other reproductive-care providers for health services other than abortion. He also no longer supports the Hyde Amendment, which bans the use of federal funds for abortion except in cases of rape, incest or life-threatening circumstances. There are no segregationists running. Biden is not, nor has ever been a segregationist. Biden was Obamas Veep for gawdssake. Trump comes much closer, being a died in the wool racist. You know, you have to read what Biden said about sanders plan, he didnt actually say he would veto Sanders plan. It isnt like you think, and sanders plan has exactly no chance of ever being passed. [https://www.politifact.com/factcheck](https://www.politifact.com/factcheck)…-medicare-all/ And, indeed Biden doesnt "stand up in this day and age and call marijuana a “gateway drug.” He dropped that more than a decade ago. Do try to keep up with the times, eh? - ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-you-vote-for-in-november/853244/74 "2020-05-08T21:23:00Z")
\*\* SmartAleq\*\* I’ll repeat my comment in #69 upthread: _…her changing stories hurt her credibility, as does what I’ve seen of the context of those changes. I do not defend Biden (I was for Bernie in 2016). I also do not believe in guilt without compelling evidence. I DO believe the current POTUS is a molester of underage girls, a confessed sexual abuser, a known bribe dispenser, a fraudster and money launderer, a sociopathic liar, and a filthy stinking traitor._ By rejecting Biden on flimsy grounds with Russian involvement, you accept a monster. Yes, I find your values curious. ---
**Author:** ![pjacks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@pjacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjacks)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-you-vote-for-in-november/853244/75 "2020-05-08T22:13:02Z")
SmartAleq lives in Oregon afaict. There is no conceivable way Biden loses Oregon- those blue EC votes are already in the bank. All this pearl clutching about one person’s meaningless vote is pointless. Vote-shaming a random person online, who has ultimately been disenfranchised, is what our sham democracy has been reduced to. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-you-vote-for-in-november/853244/76 "2020-05-08T22:21:03Z")
> [@pjacks](#): > > SmartAleq lives in Oregon afaict. There is no conceivable way Biden loses Oregon- those blue EC votes are already in the bank. All this pearl clutching about one person’s meaningless vote is pointless. Vote-shaming a random person online, who has ultimately been disenfranchised, is what our sham democracy has been reduced to. He has posted canards about Biden that are demonstrably wrong. While of course, we wont change _his_ mind, others reading this may buy into those wrong factoids. He wont even back down from them in the face of a line by line dissection. So, even tho his vote wont make a difference, the disinformation he is spreading could make a difference. We dispute misinformation because that is the purpose of thise board- to fight ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-you-vote-for-in-november/853244/77 "2020-05-08T22:28:55Z")
I too won’t vote for a rapist. That’s just one of many reasons why I’m voting for Biden. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2020, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-you-vote-for-in-november/853244/78 "2020-05-10T19:11:17Z")
Biden’s polling advantage is the steadiest in a race with an incumbent running since at least 1944: [Biden's lead is the steadiest on record | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/10/politics/biden-polling/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-you-vote-for-in-november/853244/79 "2020-05-11T09:24:14Z")
Here we are at the SDMB, haven of rational thought, yet 21% of us plan to vote against the Democratic nominee. _Heaven help us._ ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-you-vote-for-in-november/853244/80 "2020-05-11T19:59:15Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Here we are at the SDMB, haven of rational thought, yet 21% of us plan to vote against the Democratic nominee. _Heaven help us._ Old joke. She: Count to ten. He: One, two, three, four five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Okay? She: “Mental illness strikes every ten seconds!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-you-vote-for-in-november/853244.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-you-vote-for-in-november/853244.md?page=5)