August Straw Poll: Your choice today (1 of 6)

OP_Carl · #1 08-10-2008, 05:03 PM

If the election were today, who would you select for pres?

Blubayou · #2 08-10-2008, 05:23 PM

I am not happy about voting for anyone and have considered not voting at all.

MissBrattified · #3 08-10-2008, 08:21 PM

Oh, sorry...I misread the poll--it says, "If the election were today, who's President?" I thought that meant who would be elected--not who I would personally vote for.

Is it possible for ADMIN to delete my vote so I can vote again?

Jermyn Davidson · #4 08-11-2008, 02:04 AM

Today, I voted for OBAMA, but I may change my mind and vote my party on the actual election day.

I really, really wish the Repubs had put someone else up there.

OP_Carl · #5 08-11-2008, 04:59 AM

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Originally Posted by MissBrattified

Oh, sorry...I misread the poll--it says, "If the election were today, who's President?" I thought that meant who would be elected--not who I would personally vote for.

Is it possible for ADMIN to delete my vote so I can vote again?

So sorry. There was a limit to the number of characters I could enter into that field. You're right, it is a little ambiguous. Hopefully the term "straw poll" will help others.

This is an anonymous poll asking individual members to show who they would select for president if the election were today. Straw polls such as this, when conducted before and after selection of running mates, can show whether a candidate's veep selection has helped or hurt.

You have given me an idea, though . . .

OP_Carl · #6 08-11-2008, 05:03 AM

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Originally Posted by 1399

Today, I voted for OBAMA, but I may change my mind and vote my party on the actual election day.

I really, really wish the Repubs had put someone else up there.

You and 2 out of 3 in the Republican coalition! McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform seems to be working its true intended goal. Whoever gets cozy with the media becomes the candidate. Of course, with a real leftist in the running, McCain is no longer their darling, and the media has left McCain in a lurch and flocked to Obama the Messiah. I wonder if McCain's special law will allow him to re-finance his campaign as well?

It's pretty tough to balance a party of 62 million on a one-legged stool, huh?

TCSQ · #7 08-11-2008, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by 1399

Today, I voted for OBAMA, but I may change my mind and vote my party on the actual election day.

I really, really wish the Repubs had put someone else up there.

So do I but WHO?????? Pat Buchanan? Newt Gingrich??? Who is there?

I had been really hoping at one point that Condoleeza Rice would throw her hat in the ring, but she did not do that great of a job as Secretary of state and I am sure she knew that that would rise up to haunt her repeatedly in the debates and campaign.

But that again leaves us with a big question, Who does the Republican Party have that could assume the mantel of leadership. I might have voted for Romney, certainly, no let me rephrase that < CERTAINLY> would have prefferred him over McCain, could not abide the Baptist smarmy guy, (Is that terrible, I can't even remember his name right now! THAT'S BAD!)

The only reason I would NOT have voted Romney would be if I gave in to the Conspiracy theory part of my nature that I try to keep locked up in the dungeon!

rgcraig · #8 08-11-2008, 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by MissBrattified

Oh, sorry...I misread the poll--it says, "If the election were today, who's President?" I thought that meant who would be elected--not who I would personally vote for.

Is it possible for ADMIN to delete my vote so I can vote again?

Send me your vote changes and I can manually make the change for you.

I tweaked the question a bit.

BrotherEastman · #9 08-11-2008, 11:43 AM

None of them.

Sam · #10 08-11-2008, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by BrotherEastman

None of them.

I can see why you are saying that.
I've said that our ballots should have a choice that says, "None of the above."
Because none of the candidates listed on the ballot is acceptable to them, many will not vote at all.

We will be choosing a person to be our President for the next 4 years. The President by himself/herself is not very powerful as far as enacting new laws. He/she can only approve or reject what is presented by Congress. The President does set national and international policy and can request Congress to pass laws and appropriate funds in accordance with those policies, but cannot force anything.

One thing the President can do is appoint judges to federal courts and to the Supreme Court. These judges by their decisions have quite an effect on us. In my opinion, that is one of the most important considerations in voting for a person as President. How will he/she affect us by the judges that he/she appoints? For that reason I think it is important that we all vote to affect the outcome of the election. To vote for someone who has no possible chance of winning is, in my opinion, a wasted vote. Whether we like it or not we are locked into a two-party system.

John McCain may not be everything I want in a President but he is, in my opinion, superior to whomever the Democratic Party may offer. John McCain may be a little more liberal than what I want but he is far more conservative than the Democrat alternative.

My Dad was a Democrat. My father-in-law was a Democrat. I was always told that the Democrats were for the working people or the common people. In my opinion, the Democratic party has lost touch with reality and is controlled by Socialists, Unions, Greenies, Hollywood, Gays, Abortionists, Feminists, etc. and does not reflect the values of decent God-fearing Americans.

I even saw a poll somewhere that asked if a Christian could support the Democratic party. I don't know, but I have to wonder how a Christian could, in good conscience, support the Democratic agenda and platform.