A differently formatted 'who do you support' poll

[GhostWriter16]

Marginally prefer? I think that's the tack The Economist took. :lol

I know that everyone thinks "The problem is that they won't compromise." my problem is that they compromise way too much, or rather, on the wrong things.

Of course the GOP held their guns, and I can hardly blame them, on healthcare and taxes, but when its come to the Patriot Act, NDAA, TSA expansions, foreign policy, exc. there has been far, far too much "Compromise."

As such, I want the candidate that is going to be blocked by congress. I know Obama will just use executive orders, but I'm hoping that in the long run that will lead to civil disobedience. Maybe for once somebody DOESN'T fire that drone or make that warrantless arrest when they're supposed too. I'm hoping so.

I think a GOP takeover of the senate might be unlikely this year, but is plausible in 2014. On the other hand, and Democrat takeover of the House doesn't seem likely in the next four years.,

I do NOT want a unified government this year.

If Romney wins he'll have four years to prove himself to me...

 

[Zelig]

Israel is the only country that majority supports Mitt?

Pakistan has more supporters of Romney than of Obama.

 

[alva848]

Non-American, Obama.

Pakistan has more supporters of Romney than of Obama.

Well, there's an endorsement for ya. Not all that unsurprising either, is it.

 

[Camikaze]

Way more people support Obama over Romney outside America largely due to the widespread perception that Obama is far better for the rest of the world. For example, the Australian Treasurer fairly recently decried the Republican economic policy because it was so reckless as to be putting the economies of all other countries in danger. Whether this perception is accurate or not is, of course, up for debate, but if a Republican were to claim that they're better for America's allies, they would be saying that they know better than the allies themselves.

To be fair, non-Americans aren't necessarily going to particularly care if the US President is good for the American people, but I think it's safe to say our interests generally coincide. But, for example, it would be far more unreasonable for me to oppose some sort of American carbon emission scheme than for a coal miner in Ohio.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Obama because the thought of Republicans controlling the US is truly terrifying, and they're the only 2 candidates a non-negligible chance of winning.

This pretty much.

And also the idea that Americans might actually vote in a candidate as weak and terrible as Romney depresses me.

 

[Thedrin]

Irish
If my hypothetical vote is in a swing state, Obama.
If not Jill Stein. I know nothing about her except an online poll told me a couple of months back that she had positions most similar to my own.

 

[Antilogic]

Non-Americans tend to know what "liberalism" actually means.

I swear I do! I've got the post history to prove it!

 

[mayor]

You know, I have voted, non-American: Barack Obama.

however, come to think of it, I think I would prefer Johnson. You people talk about that 5% and if that guy makes it it might just announce the end of that terrible two party system of yours...

 

[Antilogic]

It's not the fact that there are just two majors in each election, it's that they are the same two majors. I wouldn't have a problem with a two-party system if there was more turnover in the major parties, letting the old ones die, and evolving new coalitions to replace them. It's the static, entrenched nature of the whole thing that's the problem.

 

[Disgustipated]

Nevadan supporting Gary Johnson.

 

[amadeus]

American. Ron Paul.

 

[plarq]

Non-American, Obama. Give me citizenship and I will vote for who opens the can of immigrants.

 

[Borachio]

Green, every time. What else is going to persuade mainstream politics to take the environment seriously?

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

Who is the non-American going for Virgil?

 

[Thedrin]

Possibly someone who felt sorry for him after his poor showing in the other poll.

 

[Ailedhoo]

From what I've observed, most of our non-American members are more liberal than Americans.

Considering the Conserative Party in the UK is liberal compared to the ultraconserative Republicans, then it is likely to see a gap. The Republican Party has simply gone exstreamly fanatical.

Anyrate a vote for the Greens.

You may want to consider adding the Socialist Party USA figure on the poll, just so the socialists, especilly the democratic socialists, can express their view on the matter.

 

[LamaGT]

I voted Obama in the poll, though the Green party is kinda appealing too. I would have voted for the Libertarians before but i realized no government involvement in anything is kinda stupid. Seriously though i hope that eventually the elections will be fought between Democrats and Greens, such a strong conservatism can't exist in a modern western society goddamit.

 

[sophie]

Obama, for a number of reasons I listed in another thread. I would vote for the Green party or the Peace and Freedom party if they could ever put forth a legitimate (not joke) candidate. I doubt that will ever happen though.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Obama, the thinnest kid in fat camp.

 

[NickyJ]

American politicians are fairly right-wing, when compared to politicians from other western countries.

A lot of (most?) democrats would be considered right-wing in Europe.

That's my point. And since I'm from America, I view Europe as being more left-wing than the Democrats, as I said in the OP.

The third candidate non-American options are worthless, I'm sorry to say. For a reason, see post above.

But you get points for thoroughness.

I wouldn't have included them if I had asked who you expected to win. But people can still support candidates who won't win, as can be seen in the poll.

Non-Americans tend to know what "liberalism" actually means.

In their own terms, that is. But because this is an American election, I am an American, and I started the thread, I get to call it what it's called from my neck of the woods.

Where's the nobody option?

That's the 'no vote' option.