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Poll Question: Who would you vote for?
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    Posted: June 04 2016 at 03:46
In support of the engaging 'American politics, 2016 edition' thread.

The rest of the world has their own problems to deal with, but I'm curious to hear from the international prog community.  If you were in our shoes, who would you vote for?
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Wouldn't vote at all. It is a choice between the rain and the drops for me, regardless of the candidate.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again - Josiah Edward "Jed" Bartlet.
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thank god the anyone but Hillary or Trump crowd didn't select this guy... LOL



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Sorry but of these options only two will go on to the general election. 

Oh you could add a third one: Gary Johnson. 


Of course Clinton. 
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As a middle class white male, it is likely in my best interest to vote for the Republican candidate...however, per usual said candidate is such a lunatic I could never bring myself to vote for such a candidate.  Since no other parties have a realistic chance of being elected, that leaves the other candidate.  Again my vote goes to whom I consider to be the lesser of two evils.  That, and I don't "feel the Bern".
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White middle class male voting for Bernie followed by the unappealing but better than the alternative Hellary
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

White middle class male voting for Bernie followed by the unappealing but better than the alternative Hellary
 
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I expected a primarily Bernie crowd on this site. Glad to see no Trump voters so far.  Not delighted by the wouldn't vote crowd but already went through that argument on a different thread.
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I can't believe how a USA citizen may vote by a communist supported by Maduro, Ortega and Castro, the guys who are killing three countries
            
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But does Sanders support them?
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Between Clinton, Sanders, and Trump, I definitely prefer Sanders. Realistically, Sanders is most likely not going to be the nominee, so in that sense I would have voted "other" for Stein.
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Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

I can't believe how a USA citizen may vote by a communist supported by Maduro, Ortega and Castro, the guys who are killing three countries
Obviously Ivan though you know about a lot of things you're not omniscient and have no idea why many many Americans would vote for Sanders. 

There's many reasons for it. And I can say with confidence that the views of those two clowns and Castro are number 463736373738383 in the list of reasons why. 


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Sanders seems to be the most honest and compassionate person of the three. I heartily disagree with him on some issues, but if restricted to those three candidates and required to vote, I'd choose Sanders. 

Yet, there are other parties, and if there is anything worse than Trump and Clinton in this race, it's the two party system that allows each candidate to scare voters into voting for them election cycle after election cycle. So I'm inclined to look elsewhere. That said, I'm not sure if there is even a third party candidate that I really support. We'll see. I haven't done as much research on third party candidates as I should have.

Overall, though, I'm pretty despondent about the effort of government in the first place. It's better than no government imo. But inevitably holes are found in every system and people exploit them. I'll put up my best efforts as a voting citizen of the US, but I don't feel it will do much good.
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/03/09/bernie_sanders_on_fidel_castro_and_cuban_communism_at_debate_video.html



Sanders would be my choice if I were American and could vote for any of these.

Edited by Logan - June 04 2016 at 19:49
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The two I would want, John Mcafee and Austin Petersen, lost the libertarian primaries. I really wouldn't want to vote for anyone else.
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Originally posted by Pastmaster Pastmaster wrote:

The two I would want, John Mcafee and Austin Petersen, lost the libertarian primaries. I really wouldn't want to vote for anyone else.


Really, you liked the blogger and the guy with a unsolved murder in his past better than Gary Johnson?

Johnson should be included as an option in this poll, by the way.  Will be on the ballot in all 50 states.


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^In fact, I can with 99.99% accuracy predict that Gary Johnson will be in ballots in 50 more states than Bernie Sanders. 
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Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

^In fact, I can with 99.99% accuracy predict that Gary Johnson will be in ballots in 50 more states than Bernie Sanders. 
 
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