2008 Presidential Election: Who are you voting for?
 

2008 Presidential Election: Who are you voting for?

(poll requested by Senusret I)

Thanks, Kevin!

There has been a lot of talk for a very long time about this freakin' election, and I thought it would be nice to anonymously vote for your candidate (or be one of the losers who still isn't decided lol).

Feel free to discuss whatever, but remember to vote!

Can this poll be promoted in other forums or do you guys just want the usual News and Politics forum folks to vote?

ETA: I'm going to out my kind of stupid tonight. The first time I looked at this thread, I missed the poll at the top and just saw Kevin's post, and thought, "why did Senusret have Kevin post a message rather than doing it himself?"

I don't mind it being promoted as long as nobody feels beaten over the head with it.

And LOL.... it's okay, it took me a week to realize I couldn't start my own poll.

For me, when I start a thread, at the bottom (under the submit button), there's an option to make the post a poll. I'm not sure whether or not that's available to non-mods, but I'm happy to post whatever wherever just as any mod I'm sure is.

To "Unsure:"

Dammit, it's been long enough, pick a team! LOLOL

Where my third party people at?

I'm really glad it's anonymous. I'd hate for anybody to know who I'm voting for! :D

That was me. I was a pretty solid McCain supporter for a long time (after Ron Paul failed to get the nomination). I gave the guy a closer look and I sincerely think that the guy has become so cynical with respect to his views and positions that he's dangerous to have in a position of power. The man's waffling makes John Kerry look like the Pope (who doesn't waffle, ever).

Obama, on the other hand is such an unknown quantity to me. I don't like the specifics of his plans, but this recent banking crisis has led me to rethink a lot of my ideas as to whether a free-market economy can function alongside the American government who I suppose is dead-set on bailing out incompetently run companies who pay their executives 47-million dollar severance packages in exchange for running the company into the ground.

In 2006, I would have been a McCain supporter, 100%. Today? He's making me question whether or not I can vote for him. It's a good thing I live in Oklahoma where McCain is favored to win by +10%, or I'd have a bit more of a dilemna.

I'm definitely going to vote because I'm interested in how some of our more local elections are turning out.

I know what you mean. ;)

Posting to bump and to note that this is closer than I thought. I really thought GreekChat would be an Obama blowout.

I think I'm close to being in the same boat. I was a big-time Romney supporter, and I became kind of disillusioned after the primaries. I really wanted to give McCain a chance, but each passing day I feel less and less confident (between the VP choice, some of his public comments, etc.).

I wouldn't vote Obama, because I disagree with too many of the items on his platform, but it's made me seriously consider the third party route for the first time. I still think I'm voting McCain, but my vote is much shakier than I would have thought possible a couple of months ago.

I'm not the biggest McCain fan (I liked Fred and/or Romney), but in my mind he's certainly closer to my beliefs than Obama and I can't bring myself to vote third party because it could in theory contribute to Obama being elected. So I'm voting against Obama more than for McCain.

^^^ Do you live in a state where it would even truly matter? Where I live, I could vote my conscience and Obama would still win.

This year, it just so happens none of the third parties speak to my beliefs as closely as Obama does, but he certainly doesn't represent EVERY single thing I believe in.

I live (for school) in a state where it doesn't matter really, but I'm registered in a state where the lead is small enough that I'm not comfortable voting third party.

I'm still figuring it out - Libertarian or Constitutional? Hmmm . . .

eta - John Quincy Adams - "Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."

that is a good quote

i checked unsure, because I can't really bring myself to vote for any of the candidates. I still plan to vote because of local and state elections and i think it might be a senate race this year too (i don't know, i was gone for the summer and haven't watched too much tv since being back)

why? b/c we're all liberal hippies? :p

Not particularly hippie, I don't think, but because the News and Politics forum skews Democratic if you count up posters and apparent affiliation and because, I think, the rest of the sight is pretty young. We could also throw in that some of the consistently most active forums are the NPHC groups' and I suspect that most NPHC members will vote Obama.

I suspect that the general alumni members of NPC and IFC groups may be a more representative political breakdown of the general population (which is not to say that it's necessarily an even match or that Obama wouldn't be ahead), but I don't think GreekChat matches the general population of greek alums or of the population at large. For example, I may be the only AGD poster who supports McCain on the site, but I doubt I'm the only one in real life or that the ratio is what it seems to be here.

Why isn't Senusret listed under McCain and Obama?

^^ You know what......

lol

Who to vote for?
 

Emotionally - Baldwin/ Constitution Party

Intellectually - Barr / Libertarian Party

I saw yesterday that Paul endorsed Baldwin and I only knew who he was because you had him in your signature for a while.

Barr has been around Georgia politics for a long time and he just creeps me out to see him. The mustache is not a good look. I also don't have much time for a thrice married guy to be all up in the Defense of Marriage Act. (and then all the Flynt discovered stuff about the Barr supporting his second wife's abortion. It's just plain icky, no matter who you believe.)

Yeah, Barr doesn't appeal to me EXCEPT as a representative of the Libertarian Party, whose platform I'm pretty on-board with - the mustache is the worst. :(

Uhhhh no one ever said GC was a scientific representation of the entire Greek Population in the U.S.

There should have been a category that said " I am voting against Palin"
(Or Biden for that matter, although he hasn't raised the hackles like Palin has.)

yeah but i don't like him either...we have crappy choices again

Just want to interject - as long as the "crappy choices" continue to garner votes, you will continue to get more of the same. Really, why change the system if it "works"?

Unfortunately, there are those of us who aren't wild about any of the choices, including third parties. I've said it before, if there was a third party that could really engage me, this is the first year I'd consider voting for it. However, I don't really like any of the third party choices - my ideas sometimes stray into Libertarian territory, but I'm not a Barr fan.

Yeah, Barr is a problem for me, so I'm leaning towards Baldwin. I guess my comment was geared more to all those voters who hate the two "crappy" choices, but won't even look at ANY third party candidates.

Is there a politican out there that you WISH were running for president? Someone you could support, but who is not a candidate?

There will only be two Presidential candidates on the ballot in Oklahoma. We have some of the toughest ballot access laws in the state. To be eligible, you have to either circulate a petition which achieves a number equal to a certain percentage of the last presidential ballot cast OR you have to have had 5% in the previous election.

There was a time in our state' history, way back, when the Democratic party was the only party allowed on the ballot.

I don't like Barr, or Nader, the others I've seen haven't really tanked out.

I was a Clark supporter, but then he won some primaries but then decided to quit, so that's kind of hard to get behind.

Really, there's no one. I like my congressman. I would vote for him if he were running, I guess. But seriously, we are the leaders of the free-world we should have better candidates.

Yikes! Democracy, indeed . . .

Sent you a PM.

Right. But you suggested that the reason that I thought GC would go for overwhelmingly for Obama was because I assumed you all were hippies. I was just explaining my reasoning.

see. I can see the smilie, but I gave a real answer anyway.

Well I dont like the current results of this opinion poll, however I'm glad to see that out of those who have taken this poll everyone plans to vote!!! That to me is the most important thing for us to do--exercise our right to vote!

I didn't know where else to post this, because essentially every thread has become a "let's bash the opposing candidate" battle, rather than a political discussion. But, I thought Lehrer did a good job moderating the debate last night. I think he walked a good line between letting the candidates speak, and stepping in when needed.

What was your take on him making a point to ask the candidates to look at each other and talk to each other?

I think he was trying to facilitate real conversation as opposed to standard political rhetoric.