2012 Presidential Election - Who'd you vote for? (Now anonymous thanks to anonymous!)

[Kodos]

Who'd you vote for?

[Marc Vaughan]

I can't vote myself - although tbh I'm glad of the fact because I have serious issues with both of the main candidates (Obama on his civil rights abuses and drone strikes, Romney .... well on nearly everything ).

[Desnudo]

I voted for Kodos

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by Desnudo

I voted for Kodos

Like

[CrimsonFox]

I'm surprised no one voted for trout

[Izulde]

I'm waiting for JIMGA to pull a swerve and say he voted for Jill Stein.

[Kodos]

Originally Posted by Desnudo

I voted for Kodos

You choose.... poorly.

[CrimsonFox]

Rocky who?

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by CrimsonFox

Rocky who?

Balboa. Scrappy fighter. Comes from Philadelphia

SI

[lungs]

Since this poll is public, I'm taking names.....

[BYU 14]

Originally Posted by lungs

Since this poll is public, I'm taking names.....

Guess it's good we're both on team O

[wade moore]

I'm not voting because it's public.

:shurg:

I'm weird about thinking that we don't keep these things more private in this country. I generally don't talk about who I voted for.

[korme]

Why would you make this a public poll? Curiosity or do you just not care about maximizing the amount of voters?

[Kodos]

Eh, nobody is forcing anyone to answer the poll. I didn't figure privacy was a big deal. Few of us know each other in real life. Perhaps I was wrong.

[korme]

Originally Posted by wade moore

I'm not voting because it's public.

:shurg:

I'm weird about thinking that we don't keep these things more private in this country. I generally don't talk about who I voted for.

Annnnd thats exactly what I was talking about

[molson]

Originally Posted by wade moore

I'm not voting because it's public.

:shurg:

I'm weird about thinking that we don't keep these things more private in this country. I generally don't talk about who I voted for.

You're going to be really disappointed in about 20 years when we start voting via facebook.

[Logan]

Originally Posted by wade moore

I'm not voting because it's public.

:shurg:

I'm weird about thinking that we don't keep these things more private in this country. I generally don't talk about who I voted for.

Commie.

[Suburban Rhythm]

Originally Posted by molson

You're going to be really disappointed in about 20 years when we start voting via facebook.

Not Facebook specifically, but online...I read it here

IWS #203 - The Results - Front Office Football Central

[Leroy Veritas]

I took the Brewster's Millions approach for the 3rd consecutive election.

None of the Above.

[BishopMVP]

Since my state doesn't matter, I usually throw it away on a 3rd party. This year both seemed a little too crazy, so I voted for Kang.

I usually go for the ballot initiatives anyway, but I'm not really that interested in either this year (Medical Marijuana, Right to Die)

[Easy Mac]

I'm not entirely certain, but I'm about 90% sure that the presidential election was the only instance on my ballot of anyone running against a Republican. There might have been one other, but I'm fairly certain everything else was Republican v. write in.

So the only vote I cast was on the ballot initiative (voting for Lt. governor separately or with governor).

[Abe Sargent]

My dad would say, when someone asked him who he voted for, "I voted teh right way." When asked which way was the right way, he would wink and say, "Secret Ballot." As a pastor, he didn;t want to introduce divides into the church because of politics. He registered as independent and didn;t tell people who he voted for.

[ISiddiqui]

I kept looking for Pumpy on my ballot, but couldn't find him . So I decided to vote for the closest substitute & since Obama is black.....

[Izulde]

Originally Posted by Abe Sargent

My dad would say, when someone asked him who he voted for, "I voted teh right way." When asked which way was the right way, he would wink and say, "Secret Ballot." As a pastor, he didn;t want to introduce divides into the church because of politics. He registered as independent and didn;t tell people who he voted for.

That's essentially the way to go about it when you're in a position of nonpartisan leadership such as a pastor, IMO.

[molson]

Originally Posted by ISiddiqui

I kept looking for Pumpy on my ballot, but couldn't find him . So I decided to vote for the closest substitute & since Obama is black.....

If you were voting in Rhode Island and you got 4 friends to vote for Pumpy, he'd actually appear in the official Federal Election Commission results

http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2008/2008pres.pdf

As far as I can tell, Rhode Island is the only state that tabulates and reports who received write-in votes, as long as someone has at least 5 votes. The other states group the write-in votes together as "scattered", or they'll only tabulate write-in votes that were for someone who actually registered with the state to be a write-in candidate. (that's why there's a bunch of votes for Santa Clause in Idaho - there's a guy named Santa Clause who registers as a write-in candidate every year.)

[sterlingice]

Definitely will need to check out the Rhode Island results tonight then

SI

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by wade moore

I'm not voting because it's public.

:shurg:

I'm weird about thinking that we don't keep these things more private in this country. I generally don't talk about who I voted for.

I suppose on a local election level, it could cause division for personal relationships. But I'm not entirely sure why for national office. Yes, if you disagree vehemently with your friends, I could understand. However, Obama and Romney are just cartoon characters to us: tailored personages that they want us to see. We're basically judging that, not so much the person.

SI

[Easy Mac]

you should listen to this weeks This American Life. Its shocking how people react when they hear you're voting for these characters.

[Butter]

Listening right now, it's pretty harrowing stuff. So much needless intolerance.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Izulde

I'm waiting for JIMGA to pull a swerve and say he voted for Jill Stein.

Not on the ballot here. Only Johnson among the minor parties made it to the ballot.

I did as intended, although with considerably more regret than I expected, and did not cast a vote in the Presidential race.

The whole process, btw, took about 4 minutes from door to door.

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by Easy Mac

I'm not entirely certain, but I'm about 90% sure that the presidential election was the only instance on my ballot of anyone running against a Republican. There might have been one other, but I'm fairly certain everything else was Republican v. write in.

So the only vote I cast was on the ballot initiative (voting for Lt. governor separately or with governor).

President, Senate and House here. Everything else was Republican vs. write-in.

[Easy Mac]

How did they come up with the order of the ballot? On my ballot, Romney was listed at the top. Obama was listed fourth.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Easy Mac

How did they come up with the order of the ballot? On my ballot, Romney was listed at the top. Obama was listed fourth.

Varies by state, best I could find from a quick Google.

Some states draw lots, others go by qualifying date/time, some are at the discretion of state officials (this seems to be SC), some at the discretion of local officials, and at least some now vary the order in batches of ballots sent to different precincts.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by Easy Mac

I'm not entirely certain, but I'm about 90% sure that the presidential election was the only instance on my ballot of anyone running against a Republican. There might have been one other, but I'm fairly certain everything else was Republican v. write in.

Same down here. It now makes more sense why Tim Scott and the two dudes running for school board are the only candidate whose signs I've seen. Those were the only contested elections on the ballot besides POTUS. There were a half dozen or so others of R vs. no one.

[panerd]

I'm liking the FOFC 3rd party turnout. Would be fantastic if it was mirrored nationally.

[wade moore]

Originally Posted by sterlingice

I suppose on a local election level, it could cause division for personal relationships. But I'm not entirely sure why for national office. Yes, if you disagree vehemently with your friends, I could understand. However, Obama and Romney are just cartoon characters to us: tailored personages that they want us to see. We're basically judging that, not so much the person.

SI

So your claim here is that you are not judged by who you vote for for president? That you don't get into unnecessary fights if you tell people who you are voting for? That they don't view you in a certain way based on who you're voting for?

If that's true where you are, I'm moving now.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Speaking of people running unopposed ... keep in mind now that I live in Paul Broun's congressional district.

We didn't have a single contested local (i.e. county) level race ... every single candidate was a Democrat.

[Scoobz0202]

Originally Posted by wade moore

So your claim here is that you are not judged by who you vote for for president? That you don't get into unnecessary fights if you tell people who you are voting for? That they don't view you in a certain way based on who you're voting for?

If that's true where you are, I'm moving now.

Reminds me of the recent TAL.

If people are interested:
Red State Blue State | This American Life

[Kodos]

Heh. Looks like someone edited my poll. I'd have preferred someone just made a second "secret ballot" poll, but no biggie.

[BYU 14]

Originally Posted by Kodos

Heh. Looks like someone edited my poll. I'd have preferred someone just made a second "secret ballot" poll, but no biggie.

Kind of wierd, I would think on a board like this that remains civil (for the most part) and few know each other in RL it would be no big deal, shrug.

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by BYU 14

Kind of wierd, I would think on a board like this that remains civil (for the most part) and few know each other in RL it would be no big deal, shrug.

I think most of us have a pretty good idea what most of the regulars here lean politically anyways.

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by BishopMVP

Since my state doesn't matter, I usually throw it away on a 3rd party. This year both seemed a little too crazy, so I voted for Kang.

I usually go for the ballot initiatives anyway, but I'm not really that interested in either this year (Medical Marijuana, Right to Die)

there was a third question on the ballot for us as well. (Right to repair) Not that it is one to motivate though

[BYU 14]

Originally Posted by Alan T

I think most of us have a pretty good idea what most of the regulars here lean politically anyways.

True Dat and we still love 'em

[DanGarion]

Nicholas Brody.

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by wade moore

So your claim here is that you are not judged by who you vote for for president? That you don't get into unnecessary fights if you tell people who you are voting for? That they don't view you in a certain way based on who you're voting for?

If that's true where you are, I'm moving now.

Yes, Texas- that utopian paradise of non-judgmental behavior.

I'm not saying I recommend walking into the GOP office and yelling you're voting for Obama. Or going up to some guy in an Obama shirt and try to talk him into voting for Romney. And, frankly, there are a lot of reasons to vote for each candidate and we choose which reasons we judge more important than others before making our selection.

Similarly with any personal interactions, there are some people at work I would be more reluctant to mention this topic. But that's not just true for politics but for a myriad of topics. And, if you associate with folks that you fear tomorrow morning are going to come in, slam their hands on your desk and yell "Obama/Romney won! Where is your God now?", I think it might be time to find some new folks to hang around with.

I guess what I'm really getting at is that we are judged by a host of decisions we make and I don't see this as much higher on the scale than a lot of things like what clothes one wears and what music one likes. And it's certainly on a lower scale than, say, what one looks like, who one chooses to associate with, what one spends ones money on, or a host of other questions.*

SI

*I'm not making saying these things are of equivalent importance- I'm just scaling based on how others judge us. One could argue that it's much more important but also is weighed on how much influence your single vote has versus 120M others.

[Big Fo]

This thread is still better since the third party candidates aren't all lumped together.

[larrymcg421]

President: Barack Obama
US House: Jeff Kazanow
State Senate: Did not vote. (Unopposed Republican)
State House: Scott Holcomb - Really hoing he holds on as he suffered disgusting attacks from his challenger, including a TV ad that was edited to make it look like he admitted to using drugs.
Public Service Commissioner: Stephen Oppenheimer
Amendment 1 - Charter Schools: No
Amendment 2 - Multi-year lease agreements: Yes

[larrymcg421]

Why was this edited to be private? If people choose to vote in a public poll, then what's the problem?

[KWhit]

Why was the poll edited?

[BishopMVP]

Originally Posted by Alan T

there was a third question on the ballot for us as well. (Right to repair) Not that it is one to motivate though

Yeah, I'll be honest I read that one like 5 times and I really doubt I could explain it in any coherent way, so I figured it was best to skip mentioning it here Some of the proposed initiatives that didn't make the ballot looked fun - expanding the do not call list to include some charities, allowing an exemption to the no private taping law to cover public figures when they are doing their duties (a.k.a. being able to record police officers in public without being arrested), casinos would have been nice and divisive. But I was even more thinking of the crazy ones Concord has done the past couple years - banning the sale of bottled water and coming 1 vote away from passing the "cat on a leash" law, or like when Newton voted to officially rebuke George Bush's invasion of Iraq.