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Given today's pool of candidates, my vote is leaning toward?
| I'm a Republican - Voting for the GOP. | |
| I'm a Republican - Abstaining. | |
| I'm a Republican - Obama is better. :-( | |
| I'm a Democrat - Voting for the GOP. :-( | |
| I'm a Democrat - Abstaining. | |
| I'm a Democrat - Voting Obama. | |
| I'm Independent - Voting Independent. | |
| I'm Independent - Abstaining. | |
| I'm Independent - Voting for the GOP. | |
| I'm Independent - Voting Obama. |
Options by Anonymous
So our three options are: not voting, GOP, and Obama?
I would not vote for the GOP, but I would vote for Paul simply because the corporate media is hiding him.
Disappearing Options by thumbs52
The way the candidates are being handled is nothing short of disgraceful. The ‘debates’ are press conferences to identify which GOP candidate might be taking a lead; thus making him/her the new target to stop.
The electoral college will vote what is politically correct for them regardless of how their constituency voted. There will be a loud show at convention time that will not reflect the wants/needs of individual states.
Other than choosing what we are being spoon fed by the media, do we have any true alternative options?
The government safeguards put into place two hundred years ago are being trampled.
Can you tell me again exactly what our options are?
Can't vote - too disappointed by Anonymous
Im so disappointed with the whole lot of our current choices for president, no matter the party, that I’d rather vote for my 1 year old….and she’s currently engaged in throwing Chex cereal all over our kitchen floor and screeching like a mad cat. Once again, I’m embarrassed by our candidates.
Term limits! Term limits! Term limits!!!!
Executive Experience by Jackson
I don’t know a better place for this, so I’ll plop it down right here. I understand that the GOP used the “he has no executive experience” argument when Pres. Obama was running in 2008. He didn’t really have that experience. He was a state senator for 7 years and a U.S. senator for about half of a term. Fine.
Fast forward to 2012. Why am I still hearing this argument? Does any experience (executive or not) prepare you for the office of the president better than holding the office of the President? It seems that is a ridiculous charge to make against a sitting president.
Maybe you don’t like his decisions, but Obama has almost four years of experience of being the POTUS. I think you need a better reason than “lacks experience” to deny him four more.
RE: Executive Experience by GreatWhiteDork
Heh. No, that argument doesn’t hold water.
Who’s making that argument? I want to go troll their website.
RE: Executive Experience by Jackson
You can frequently see it on Slate. David Weigel, whether he is just repeating things he’s heard or he just thinks it’s a valid charge says it from time to time. And you often see it in the comments sections of any article about Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. Besides, isn’t one of Romney’s big claims (besides the economy one) that he has the experience since he was a governor and Olympics big guy and Bain capital big-shot? I’ve always assumed that claim wasn’t intended as a “see I’m as qualified as the other guy” so much as a “I have the experience he lacks” type of argument. Maybe I’ve been interpreting Romney incorrectly and he is only making the weaker argument of not being worse.
RE: Executive Experience by Occams
If experience improves performance then W would have been better during his second term.
RE: Executive Experience by Jackson
Do you think Bush was worse his second term than his first? I kind of felt he improved.