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Do you know who or what you are voting for?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by body slam, Mar 6, 2018.

  1. body slam

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    Do you fill out the entire ballet even if you have no clue about who or what you are voting for?
     
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  2. Anticope

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    No, don't vote for someone just to vote. I voted today and left a few of the races empty that I wasn't knowledgeable on and didn't have the time to research. I remember on super Tuesday a couple of years ago some crazy guy (more crazy than your typical GOP candidate) won the Travis County GOP chair because so many people just voted for the first name on the ballot in that race.
     
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  3. NewRoxFan

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    In my county there usually are not many or even any candidates, but this year there are some and I am happy to vote in this primary. The most known candidates are all still on the republican side (my wife votes republican, we usually go to the polls together so I saw her sample ballot). Of the races with more than one choice I am voting for O'Rourke, White (over Valdez, liked her a lot too), Collier, Chevalier, Suazo, and Spellman. And I am going to go straight Democrat on the state propositions because, hey, I am a tax and spend kinda guy... seriously, just sending a message.

    I did research the candidates in races where there were multiple candidates. Most likely its still... "picking the candidate that loses in November" but maybe one somehow sneaks in...
     
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    My default used to be to vote against the incumbent if I didn't know one way or other, but I don't think anymore that that's a safe way to go. Especially in a primary, the challenger can be more crazy than the incumbent. So, I'll pull a sample ballot ahead of time and decide my vote before I go in, especially on ballot measures because they're generally worded to trick voters. I won't vote for someone running unopposed. And, I won't vote in a race for an office that I think should be appointed instead of elected.
     
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  5. Buck Turgidson

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    Voting for Judges (in Texas at least, especially because they run with party affiliation) should not happen.

    People can elect their representatives and they should appoint and vote on the judiciary. Sorry, but the average voter has no idea what's going on.
     
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    Agree... judges shouldn't run by party. Why make it easy for majority "vote by ticket" levers?
     
  7. Buck Turgidson

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    Oh, I've always thought that you should not be able to vote "straight ticket" with just a punch...if you want to do that, you punch every single one of them.
     
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    I use to do my homework and look into each race as I voted 75% D and 25% R - voted for Bloomberg for mayor, Arlen Specter when I lived in PA, etc . That was before the crazies took over the R. Now I vote straight D as a protest against what the R party has become.
     
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  9. Os Trigonum

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    A while back some folks were questioning my patriotism as well as my allegiance to the Democratic Party. (I know, right?? can you believe it? :rolleyes:)

    Today in the New York Democratic Primary (NY has closed primaries) I cast the all-important ANYONE-BUT-CUOMO vote for the former star of Sex and the City. Here's a photo of my ballot. And lest anyone think they can report me for taking a photo of the ballot, the NY board of elections ruled in 2012 that a photo was not the same as showing the paper ballot to someone else--which IS illegal under NY law. :p

    Any of you New Yorkers out there better get to the polls, exercise your franchise, and vote for Nixon. @Sweet Lou 4 2 I'm looking at you ;)

    https://www.newyorkupstate.com/news...ie_this_election_in_new_york_its_illegal.html

    ballot Sept 13 2018.jpg
     
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  11. B-Bob

    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"
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    Nice bubbles.
     
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  12. Os Trigonum

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    hey they worked. that's all that matters. ;)
     
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  13. B-Bob

    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"
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    No, I meant it. Those are neater than the ones I mark in Cali. And then I thought "nice bubbles" sounded funny, like it should land me in an HR investigation.
     
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    No, I vote for candidates that I at least think I know something about. With the benefit of hindsight, it is clearer I really didn't know them at all.
     
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    Didn't work.
     
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    Wow. Cynthia Nixon got crushed. LOL.

    I doubt I've ever seen a candidate that got that much free press lose that badly. And she had everything going for her in an "anti-incumbency" and "progressive surge" time frame.

    Oh well. Maybe HBO will get her on a Sex in the City movie. Gotta make a living and such.
     
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  18. Buck Turgidson

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    Hell, I've seen kindergartners color inside the lines better than that.
     
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    she was never meant to beat Cuomo, but she did in fact succeed in bringing out the vote--only 575,000 voters participated in the 2014 Democratic primary for governor, whereas close to 1.5 million voted yesterday. This had the effect of helping lefty progressives further down the ballot in a big way.

    here's an analysis of what really was going on:

    https://www.city-journal.org/new-york-2018-primary-16172.html

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    "Nixon’s candidacy was never designed to put her in the governor’s mansion. Instead, it reflected a subtle strategy, developed by political operatives around de Blasio, working in conjunction with the state’s powerful labor unions, to generate excitement and increase primary-election turnout—usually about 15 percent of the electorate—to vote out the IDC and ensure Democratic senate dominance. Indeed, soon after Nixon announced her plan to challenge Cuomo, the governor presided over a cynical unification ceremony, wherein Jeff Klein dissolved the IDC and its members all rejoined the main party caucus. Rather than enhancing his image as peacemaker, however, the marriage highlighted Cuomo’s role as the enabler of the original split.

    "As I wrote in April: 'One can make a strong case that Nixon’s gubernatorial candidacy is intended to drive turnout in the Democratic primary in order to defeat the renegade IDC senators. From this perspective, by pushing Cuomo to reunite the Democrats and move to the left on other issues, she has already won.' By staying in the race, hammering Cuomo for his moderation, and campaigning heavily on behalf of the anti-IDC candidates, Nixon helped push the narrative that the renegade senators were 'Trump Democrats,' and turnout more than doubled over 2014. The campaign was aided, of course, by a hard-left surge in the local Democratic Party, exemplified in the defeat of Congressman Joe Crowley by socialist Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who endorsed Nixon."​
     
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    it's been a great day for New Yorkers and really, for all of America

     

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