Your vote for POTUS 2012

Yes I'm sure we have an old thread around somewhere for your vote, but I want to include a poll that includes 3rd (and 4th and 5th parties). For whatever reason Jill Stein isn't on my Nevada ballot I got in the mail 2 days ago. I know different states have different rules for getting on the ballot. Even though she's not on my ballot, I will include her in the poll.

I am putting the poll order in the same order as they show up on my sample ballot, except for Jill Stein who isn't on my ballot, I will put her last. I'm not including the VP's of these people, if you want to know the VP's look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012#Candidates_2

The poll will be anonymous, if you want to say who you are voting for feel free. My vote is going for Gary Johnson. Barring any extreme happenings in the next 3 weeks. Like for instance, if Obama discovers a cure for cancer in the next 3 weeks, I'll vote for him. Or if he causes all the terrorists across the world to lay down arms...

dammit, I misspelled Goode. That should read Goode not Good. My apologies to any fans of his.

If I can't vote IRL, should I vote based on "Who I would vote for" or just not vote in the poll?

GhostWriter16 said:

If I can't vote IRL, should I vote based on "Who I would vote for" or just not vote in the poll?

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The former.

"Democrat Party"?

The former, yes. Same goes to Europeans, Asians etc. Just because you can't vote irl, doesn't mean you can't vote here.

Dachs said:

"Democrat Party"?

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Democratic. Sorry.

2 typos. hmmm.

There seems to be a problem in that I can only vote once. Usually, I am able to vote an unlimited number of times for President.

ALL of the third parties are better than any of the main two.

Gary Johnson is the best option available.

I don't even care that he can't win, I'm not supporting the war machine anymore.

Stein > Obama > Johnson > Romney > Goode.

By the way, do we have any Goode fans in this forum?

I should mention I did not include one option that is on my Nevada state sample ballot. None of these candidates. I'm surprised this in on here, because I read in the paper the sate Supreme court struck down the None of the above option. Although it's possible the sample ballots were already printed, and they couldn't be changed. It may be the actual ballot at the voting machine is updated to reflect this.

Either way I didn't want to include a none of these candidates option because that would probably get the most votes.

But I do want you all to vote truthfully as best you can.

Interesting that Romney has no votes even though it's looking like he'll win. http://www.gallup.com/poll/157817/election-2012-likely-voters-trial-heat-obama-romney.aspx

Sorry, VR, but I'm not going to let you have that first vote for Romney.

Leoreth said:

By the way, do we have any Goode fans in this forum?

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I support Romney, but I kind of like Goode as a local yokel.

Green is the most palatable to me.

The fetish for 3rd party candidates feels strange and forced to me. Goode and Stein would make absolutely horrible presidents.

I'm voting for Obama.

What's wrong with Stein dt? Do you seriously think Rmoney is better?

Arthur J. Smith, Sensible Party.

Voted for Obama. Would consider Stein if she had a hope in winning/downtown didn't just trash her.

No Silly party?

In that case, Jill Stein

Murky said:

What's wrong with Stein dt?

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There is absolutely nothing about her that would suggest that she is capable of governing.

The only office Stein has ever held was a town council seat in tiny Lexington, MA. Even then, she only captured 20.6% of the vote. When she ran for state rep in MA, even in an exceptionally liberal district and with no conservative opposition, she cracked 21%. She quixotically ran for Gov of MA, a state that actually has a legitimate Green Party presence (relative to other states anyway), and didn't crack 4%.

Stein clearly isn't dumb (she's a doctor, although hey, so is Ron Paul), and she's been involved with a few health related non profits, but she's never had to balance a budget, never faced a substantive governing decision, has little policy experience outside of health care, and if elected, would suddenly have virtually no constituency to support her plans. We would have even worse gridlock than before. When perhaps the most progressive voters in the country were given a shot to actually let Stein try to make some of those choices, she was blown out every time, even by the people who knew her the best in Lexington.

I mean, I get that people are frustrated that Barry isn't liberal enough, but why should anybody trust Stien to make good decisions in real life, where she wouldn't be able to make policy via fiat?

You're probably right that most of Stein's support is because of her platform instead of herself as a politician.