State your case, place your vote

I'm writing in McMullin as a protest vote. I agree with CometsWin on Trump and Clinton, but I find the Clintons repugnant, and wouldn't be able to look myself in the mirror if I cast a vote for her. I tend to read the voting guide and pick each candidate and try to be party-neutral and vote only on candidates based on their own merit. I will however vote downballot for Democrats in this election as a vote of no-confidence to what Republicans decided to do with their super-majority in Texas.

 

Trillary.

I'd write-in McMullin as a protest vote, but the possibility of (at least) a "purple" Texas has me intrigued. In a way I care more about who sits in Austin than the White House.

 

I'm voting for Jill Stein
Mostly its a vote against the 2 party system and Gary Johnson seems like he's as mentally unstable Hillary and Drumpf.

 

ABT

Anybody But Trump

 

As an orthodox Republican, I'm also voting for McMullin. I won't be happy if/when Hillary wins in a near landslide, but if her victory at least partially crushes any mandate the Trump faction has moving forward, I'm all for it.

 

If you vote for Hillary you are literally voting for corruption and saying you are fine with it. Throughout the leaked emails and hidden camera clips ,you are witness to the sad truth of our dying Democracy. Hillary is the worst possible choice for president.

 

No-brainer. Clinton. My guess is that when all the uproar subsides (she went from being a 20-year Most Admired Woman in America, and equally liked by both parties, to being one of the worst candidates in history? Doesn't add up), she'll wind up being an effective President. She'll work with Republicans better than Obama and she'll be more progressive than we expected but not Bernie 2.0. There will most likely be scandals, or at least perceived ones, but she's most likely not going to make a Bush-level mistake like Iraq. She'll probably rank somewhere in the middle of contemporary Presidents, less than Obama but not as low as Bush.

Some of us forget that for years, we've been expecting her to run- and millions were eagerly calling for it- because it was a no-brainer. There was no one else even being talked about. So, you're going to tell me that an email scandal and the Clinton Foundation turned her from a slam-dunk candidate to the worst?

They've done some interesting studies on Clinton regarding popularity opinion polls. Almost without fail, she ranks very low when she's running for office, or in the early stages of Bill Clinton's presidency, but always ranks fairly high once she's been in a specific position for a while- like First Lady, or Senator, or Secretary of State.

You draw your own conclusions about why this is the case.

 

If she wins will you move?

 

Awesome! There are plenty of job opportunities in Canada for you.

 

Thoughts on this hidden camera story?

 

I'm approaching this from a different angle: I think the true "protest" vote is a vote for Trump. My reasoning is as follows:

1. Send a message to both political parties. They had enough on Trump to run him out of the primary (and they should have) before it even got started. Culpability lies both with the Repubs and Dems. Dems because they tried to get cutesy thinking Trump would be the easiest to beat in a general. That may be true, but in the process they have devalued the legitimacy of the accusations against him into a simple political tool.

2. Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom before things can improve. I submit that Trump is about as rock bottom as it gets, and also allows the voters to send one big middle finger to the status quo.

3. Due to the system of checks and balances, Trump won't be able to do much policy damage aside from embarrassing us on the international stage. The stupid ads about the nuclear codes are just that: stupid.

Anyone who has children knows you can't just continually speak of consequences for bad behavior and never follow through. In this case, the consequences of politicians promoting themselves at the expense of their constituents has been griped about for years, but nothing has been done (for example term limits). Trump is the consequence that the voters can inflict upon the government (and by extension themselves for not being involved enough in keeping our government in check).

If it helps with the button pushing, as you go in booth to vote for Trump, just remember Khan's last words:

 

I think he should move to Iran and not Canada.

 

Clinton. Trump just sucks.

 

Voted. 100+ people and the right wing guy in front of me was telling his kid that there shouldn't be signs in any other language but english. Every time he looked at the faces in line he got a little more sad realizing us brown folks knew about early voting.

 

You win the Internet. That's what the race really boils down to lol

 

Voted at the Woodlands library- where a group of sinister-looking septugenarians and some only slightly younger who were in charge had that "rigged " gleam in their eye. Geez, a number of local races had one choice- Republican.

 

Quite a large amount of people (I assume) voting for a Mormon two elections in a row.

 

I don't vote

 

Lots of O&G companies with offices in Calgary. Never been but I hear it's nice.

 

wow.

the current state of the republican party.

OWNED