2008 Presidential Election: Who are you voting for?

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

Where my third party people at?

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."

[RU OX Alum]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

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)

[texas*princess]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

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

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

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by texas*princess

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

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.

[Benzgirl]

Why isn't Senusret listed under McCain and Obama?

[Senusret I]

^^ You know what......

lol

[SWTXBelle]

Emotionally - Baldwin/ Constitution Party

Intellectually - Barr / Libertarian Party

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

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.)

[SWTXBelle]

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.

[texas*princess]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

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.

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

[lawgal]

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.)

[RU OX Alum]

Originally Posted by lawgal

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

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by RU OX Alum

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"?

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

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.

[SWTXBelle]

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?