Voted for Clinton. Not a fan of hers, but she still was better than the alternative. But the country would still be an utter shitshow if she had won, with Congress ramping up the investigations into her 24/7 and social divisions still widening.
I disagree with McMullin’s policy positions in a lot of areas but he certainly seemed to be a sane conservative candidate, a rare thing in 2016. I’m sorry he didn’t run for the open Senate seat Romney is after.
I have a hard time getting upset with third-party voters - after all, if they don’t feel represented by the two main parties, they should be able to vote for an alternative they prefer. That said, they also need to consider the strategic effects of doing so. And it would also be nice if third-party candidates weren’t generally delusional.
People who can but don’t vote, however, need a good smacking.
I voted for Hillary in the primary and general and would do so again without hesitation, but the fatal error made by the Democratic party was made probably shortly after the election of 2012, when it was a foregone conclusion among so many democrats that every not named Joe Biden should stay out of Hillary’s way. The Republican party was smart in building its vaunted ‘deep bench’. Granted, they got slaughtered by a populist, but in having the bench they presented the perception of fairness to its voters, and maybe even more than that, there’s just something to be said for adding an element of drama and the unknown. The Republican race attracted more interest among voters because it was a naturally interesting race, with many different personalities involved.
By contrast, the Democratic race was only made interesting when a left wing populist from Vermont took his cult following and turned it into a political brand of its own. But even then, the outcome of the race was a Clinton victory. Bernie Sanders’ attacks on Clinton, with Trump occasionally piling on, is what made the race interesting. The criminal investigation made that race interesting. Hillary Clinton and the Democratic party made all the rest boring.
As for Bernie, I would have respected his candidacy a hell of a lot more had he not been strictly an insurgent. Many of the things Bernie Sanders attacked Clinton for he could have just as easily attacked Obama for, and yet he never ran in 2012 or in 2008. He chose to ran against Hillary because he knew a lot of people just didn’t like her, and his underdog gambit was a good contrast to Clinton’s inevitability. I don’t feel Bernie or his supporters got cheated, but the Democratic party and progressive voters did get cheated to some extent by not encouraging a broader spectrum of candidates.
Not really sure how to answer this, so I didn’t vote in the poll. I actually voted for Jill Stein. I was unenthusiastic about that vote even then, and my opinion of her and her party has declined precipitously since the election, so I honestly don’t know what I’d do if I had it to do over. Probably just not cast a vote for that office, or write in Bob Dylan or something.
But I cast that meaningless protest vote for a crazy person only because the Electoral College system deprives me of any meaningful influence over Presidential elections.
If I lived in a State where the election was close, or in some alternate universe where the US elected a President in a rational manner, I would most certainly have voted for Clinton, and each passing day makes me more and more convinced that that was the correct position.
No, I would not, and I’m not feeling particularly remorseful. He’s an imperfect candidate (and an imperfect President), but I preferred him to the alternative, and still do.
If I could change anything about my vote in 2016, I wish I could have voted in a more competetive state legislative district. Some legislative candidates I really liked lost by very thin margins, but in my district, the house candidate ran unopposed, and the my state senator managed to win 85/15 without even trying to campaign. I am happy with both of them, but other people could have used my vote more.
Gerrymandering. (But don’t worry; the Democrats do it too. Doesn’t everyone remember 2009(*) when the Democrats were in control and planned a comprehensive change to the census to assist gerrymandering and reduce the electoral votes of red states?)
Here’s a state with 300 voters: 53% D, 47% R. But out of eleven seats, the D’s will win two very easily in the north, while the R’s sweep all nine of the other seats, all by thin margins:
If you can’t remember the corrupted census of 2010, it might be because … it didn’t happen. It’s the 2018 R-team that has decided to use the 2020 Census as an electoral power play.
After seeing her name encoded in the ToRaH code, studying her fixed star natal chart, seeing it reflected in Julian Assange’s “leaked” emails, listening to third world people that had funds stolen from them, using a year investigating her life and who influenced her, I would be diagnosed as a masochist, to vote for her. It wasn’t her “karma” to be POTUS. Observe how the truth will be revealed, with Saturn in its own power home of Capricorn. Be amused, but the Twin Towers were destroyed during its “Saturn return” and the Berlin Wall came down. AstroSophia is the wisdom of our CREATOR, helping us to understand the destiny of humanity and their history.
Same situation here. Exceeded my expectations. Would vote again.
I feel the same as well when it comes to voting this way or that way living in Chicago. I am really surprised at the contingent of R voters here in Lakeview/Roscoe Village, though. I keep my hopes up that some day it can swing the city.
Please note the date (2/10/2009) and byline (John Fund, Fox News and National Review commentator).
Even from what little of that opinion piece wasn’t firewalled, this was obviously speculative bullshit on the order of George Will’s contemporaneous blathering about how the Dems were going to bring back the Fairness Doctrine once Obama was elected.
Voted for Clinton…wouldn’t change. No freaking way. Wish there was something more I could have done to change the lefties who wouldn’t hold their nose and the blue collar types who thought there was no economic choice and the centrists and independents that either didn’t vote or voted for Trump. Sadly, I’m pretty terrible at changing peoples minds…and Clinton was not very good at convincing the folks who should have voted for her to vote for her instead of staying home, voting 3rd party or even voting for Trump.
I have to admit, even at this late date that I’m still mystified that he got elected.
