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Who do you want to be president?

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Who do you want to be president?

  • Hillary Clinton

  • Donald Trump

  • Bernie Sanders

  • Jeb Bush

  • Ted Cruz

  • Joe Biden

  • Deez Nutz

  • They're all equally bad

  • Write in.

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I wish we could. He's mocked the notion in the past, and right now his main focus is getting more family time, but part of me wonders (hopes?) if it's all just an elaborate ruse!

I think Stewart would absolutely crush the popular vote. He's responsible for a lot of defections from Bullshit Mountain. Two of my own family members fall into that crowd.
 
MongGrel said:
Martha Stewart ?
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Convicted felon. While there's nothing in the US Constitution that specifically prohibits felons from holding office...IMO, there's no way the average US citizen would ever vote for her. (not that some wouldn't...but hey...election cycles still get write-ins for Mickey Mouse and Popeye, just to name a few)


There's no "talking head" in the current cycle for whom I would actually vote FOR...but a fuck-ton who I would vote AGAINST...even if it meant having to take a big bite of a turd sammich...just to avoid eating a shit sammich.

Once again, it looks like we're faced with an election where we have to choose the candidate we dislike less than the others. 🙁
 
Indus said:
It's funny how you put that: self awareness..

1. I'm an anchor baby.
2. I often travel for work abroad so the USD - other currencies is a factor.
3. I don't want to be arrested for being LBGT like in Saudi Arabia.
4. I actually like the ACA. I've had a family member who had their insurance dropped at a bad time in 2005.
5. I knew a few guys from school who didn't come back after getting deployed to Iraq (though it has happened to a lot of other Americans too and we might have different opinions but we still have sadness in our hearts).

An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.
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When were you born? I pose that as a serious question, if only a casual one.

There are two components to a voting incentive which I recognize, or I otherwise cannot think of others: Immediate/direct self-interest, and something called a "public interest." Some scholarly comment has suggested that a perception of "public interest" falls under a heading of "enlightened self-interest."

In another thread, I'd quoted Kurt Vonnegut to observe that Americans have some in-bred inclination to behave like the characters they'd already seen in Hollywood movies. To this I add that -- at some level -- people want a president who may look like them, or who may speak as they do, or who communicates with a vocabulary and sophistication akin to their own.

And I'm rather stunned by the results so far in this poll. So far, the statistical leader in a rank-order of forum-voter preference is Bernie Sanders -- who, as the media continues to echo -- is a self-declared "socialist." I regard Sanders to be less of a socialist than Rand Paul is a libertarian.

But -- Sanders "doesn't look like me."

Yet, he seems to communicate on "my level."

While I think all the candidates are "off-center" to what I regard is my biggest "public interest" issue, Sanders offers a convenient overlap according to his criticism of the "corporate sector."
 
I voted Trump. As Obama has shown us, it really doesn't matter who runs the country. At least Trump would be interesting.

Bernie Sanders is probably the best real candidate.
 
TheGardener said:
If I could choose the President... well that's rather silly. If I had absolute power, then I'd rule absolutely. But don't worry, I wouldn't inflict Sharia Law on all of you.

I'll interpret the OP's question to be, at this moment who would you vote for if the election primary were held today. Right now I'd say Trump. He's probably the one person not afraid of putting the Clintons in jail, where they belong.
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How could one put the Clintons in jail without putting pretty much all of Congress in jail with them? Bad as the Hildabeast is, she is fundamentally no worse than the vast majority of D.C. She's just more blatant.

ThePresence said:
I would dearly love to vote for a Cruz/Fiorina ticket, but the chances of that happening are virtually nil.
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Think how much you'd win wagering on the possibility of being able to vote for a Cruz/Fiorina ticket. That's gotta pay off like a billion to one.

BoomerD said:
Convicted felon. While there's nothing in the US Constitution that specifically prohibits felons from holding office...IMO, there's no way the average US citizen would ever vote for her. (not that some wouldn't...but hey...election cycles still get write-ins for Mickey Mouse and Popeye, just to name a few)


There's no "talking head" in the current cycle for whom I would actually vote FOR...but a fuck-ton who I would vote AGAINST...even if it meant having to take a big bite of a turd sammich...just to avoid eating a shit sammich.

Once again, it looks like we're faced with an election where we have to choose the candidate we dislike less than the others. 🙁
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Welcome to American politics. Next verse, same as the first!
 
Could we run someone with a terminal illness for President with Obama as V.P.?
 
werepossum said:
How could one put the Clintons in jail without putting pretty much all of Congress in jail with them? Bad as the Hildabeast is, she is fundamentally no worse than the vast majority of D.C. She's just more blatant.
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One would have to start somewhere. Usually one solves a problem by going after the low hanging fruit. The others take more time and complexity.
 
If Rand Paul was more libertarian than conservative he'd do fine. More realistically, any of the reasonably centrist candidates would work for me: Mark Warner, Evan Bayh, Susanna Martinez, Amy Klobuchar, Jon Huntsman, Brian Schweitzer.
 
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