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Issue Voting Poll

September 4th, 2008 by Syd


This is something I have struggled with for a long time — how to decide my vote? Could I vote for someone that I liked on the other issues, but who was on the wrong side of gun rights? This year, the question is purely academic because Obama-Biden is so offensive to me on gun rights and security issues that it isn’t much of a contest, but I could imagine a situation in which I liked the candidate and platform on everything but gun rights. Could I vote against my gun? Could you?

Let me know your thoughts:

 

 

7 Responses to “Issue Voting Poll”

  1. on 04 Sep 2008 at 4:18 pm1 Grant

    Luckily, there is a third (and fourth, and probably fifth) choice outside of the two party system. I don’t agree with Obama on gun control or socialized medicine, but I also don’t agree with McCain on most issues and have zero confidence in his ability (or his honesty). I will not cast a vote for a gun grabber and I will not cast a vote for a pro-war, stay in Iraq for 100 years, “bomb Iran” candidate either.

    I chose the second option in the poll. Guns are a primary issue for me, but not the ONLY issue.

  2. on 04 Sep 2008 at 5:38 pm2 Rick Shay

    Here is my philosophy of voting:

    1) It is always easy for me to pick who I will vote for in national elections. I simply identify the person I LEAST WANT in office, then I will vote FOR one of the opponents. (Using this method, you can easily accept candidates that are less-than-perfect.)

    2) That having been said, the next modifier on my choice is voting FOR the person on the ballot who I think is best able to maximize those few things in government that are GOOD, and minimize those many things in the government that are BAD.

    3) NOTE: the person who is identified in Number 2 above MUST BE ELECTABLE. The only message I want to send to government is the PERSON I vote for.

    IMO, if any voter chooses to vote for someone who can’t possibly be elected, I AM wasting their vote on a message that will not be heard.

  3. on 04 Sep 2008 at 7:18 pm3 AlanDP

    I will not vote for any presidential candidate this election. I have been disenfranchised through lack of any suitable candidate.

    I am registered to vote, and have always been since I was eligible. I will be voting in state and local elections. Both presidential candidates this time are so hideously bad that I believe irreparable harm will be done no matter who gets elected. To vote for someone whom I so radically disagree with would be to waste my vote and to transgress against my own conscience. I absolutely refuse to choose a so-called “lesser evil” again.

  4. on 04 Sep 2008 at 7:31 pm4 Syd

    I think you should write in “Cthullu”

  5. on 05 Sep 2008 at 8:48 am5 Chris Meissen

    Several philosophers and scholars have observed through the ages that citizens denied the right to arms are merely slaves and subjects. Regardless of what stand a politician may take on issues other than firearms, if he or she would deny constituents their right to be armed then all else is empty words and temporary promises. If the candidate doesn’t trust the citizenry with arms, then they are effectively saying that they have no respect for their constituents and consider them a mob to be ruled rather than citizens to be heeded.

  6. on 05 Sep 2008 at 10:10 am6 Grant

    “IMO, if any voter chooses to vote for someone who can’t possibly be elected, I AM wasting their vote on a message that will not be heard.”

    Rick - This is the classic catch-22. Everyone thinks that a third party can’t win, so nobody votes for them. Nobody votes for them, so they can’t win.

    I would just like to remind you, along with anyone who refuses to vote or thinks that voting does no good, that any third party who receives 5% of the vote in the general election is eligible for federal funds in the following election, and has a much better chance of being on the ballot in all 50 states (thus, they might actually BE electable next time!).

  7. on 05 Sep 2008 at 10:07 pm7 John

    If any of you, like me, have served in the military, then you, like me, swore an oath to “defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic.”

    There are people running for the two highest offices in our government that would like nothing better than to disarm the american public at large. What makes it even more ironic is that they also swore a similar oath. They have shown by their actions and their words where they really stand. In my book, they are enemies of freedom. They do not represent the citizens of the United States.

    By registering to vote, you assume the responsibility that goes with that act. It is your duty as an american to vote for the candidate you believe will serve the people best.

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