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

Who'd you vote for?

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 ;) ).

I voted for Kodos

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I'm surprised no one voted for trout :(

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

You choose.... poorly.

Rocky who?

Balboa. Scrappy fighter. Comes from Philadelphia

SI

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

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

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.

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

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.

Annnnd thats exactly what I was talking about

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

Commie.

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

IWS #203 - The Results - Front Office Football Central

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

None of the Above.

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)

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).

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.

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.....

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

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.)

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

SI

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Reminds me of the recent TAL.

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

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.

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

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

True Dat and we still love 'em :)

Nicholas Brody.

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.

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

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

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

Why was the poll edited?

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.

Not that I really care THAT much, I'm glad that it was edited to be private.

Those of us who aren't in the "Trout" click and rarely vote probably didn't fully understood that our results would be easily viewed by anyone who happens to be in the thread as well.

Well at least you got the last one right ;)

edit to add: Although knowing our legislative history, both long-term & short-term, I figure they'll end up making us regret that vote sooner rather than later

People who can vote and don't vote should have their tax rate cranked to 65%.

:banghead:

Says ths person hiding behind an alternate screen name.

I wonder how many people voted for Roseanne Barr?

Not enough Green's to get her on the ballot, anyways.

Yeah, who is this guy? Has showed up a bunch recently, seems familiar, but says Sep 2012 reg date.

She's a choice on the Florida ballot..

I'll break down the odds-
Hifi Revival -700
Franklinnoble +450
The field +800

https://www.facebook.com/leroy.veritas

Also possibly a fan of the Washington Nationals.

barr-shehan

I've read quite a bit and had decisions made on all the local races (lots, including some controversial state proposals), but I didn't know what I was going to do with the presidential race until I had the ballot in my hand.

Anyway, about 30 minutes to vote - made sure I got in there before the rush hour rush. Heaviest turnout I've seen by far - and this is a heavily Republican district.

But he already responded to Subby and wade's already posted in this thread so no probably not a moore. I'm stumped :D

SI

Unofficial polling of my office has Romney winning 100% - 0%. Alright everyone, you don't have to watch NBC tonight.

The results are in...

A tie for Obama and Romney in nation's first results – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs

A TIE!

Is this going to be the Election thread?

President Map - Election 2012 - NYTimes.com

Really liking this. Too bad I won't be home to use it. Would be interesting to follow the Network Calls section.

Obama won this district last time, so a tie clearly shows the swing in Romney's favor...

and people actually try to argue this forum doesn't lean leftward.

FranklinNoble? Wouldn't he be on SportsDigs first?

I'm pretty sure Gary Johnson isn't getting 11% of the electorate either

SI

Shared that link & recommended it as a good central page. I like the organization of it, seems pretty streamlined to me.

edit to add: Was trying to say thanks for the suggestion, realized I didn't bother to actually, you know, say it. So thanks.

Part of me wants to ignore the news tonight, and just wake up tomorrow like it's Political Christmas. "Gee, I wonder who our next Prez is?", etc ...

I voted as I said I would all year. Having the Executive and Senate be the same party is very bad for the country, imo. With the Senate staying Dem, I had to vote Rep for the Executive. I would've easily done the reverse.

Okay, now I can back this thread. ;)

I really wish on ballots there were a straight "Fire Everyone" ticket. That's what I would've checked as opposed to have to fill in the boxes.

Basically, we got to pick between the guy who hasn't done much the last four years and the guy who wants to pretty much go back to the policies that got us here in the first place.

I voted for the guy that has us treading water, not the guy that swings by in his yacht & tosses us an anchor to hold on to.

Domestically, Obama hasn't been that bad. He just hasn't been that good.

SC and FL turning up blue so far? Wut Da Hell??? Even VA is showing red, and we all know NOVA is a buncha Commie Pinkos. Oh, the irony!

How is having the House and Executive the same party any better at all than having the Senate and exec be the same? your logic is rather faulty there.

I was thinking the same thing.

That NYT sub-map for Change vs 2008 is pretty impressive.

Zoomable, '08 results by county on mouseover, red/blue arrows (pointing right/left accordingly) provide a visual reference for the swing.

Choice 1 - Took a near 1 trillion dollar debt and turned it into 16 trillion. Uses strong armed tactics "you are either for or against me" approach.

Choice 2 - Took an olympic games that was going to run out of money and lose a bundle and turned it around to the point where they had a surplus. Was praised as governor for working with both parties to reach a solution.


Seems like an easy choice.

I for one, look forward to our LBO future as USA subsidiary of China.

Except that both of yours are basically lies. Or at the very least ridiculously huge exaggerations.

Seriously, Bush pushed our national debt to nearly 12 trillion (because yes, you DO have to count his unpaid war debts against him even if his bill didn't come in until 2009.)

Strong arm tactics? really? Lets talk filibuster for a bit shall we?

The Olympics were never, in any sense of the term, in danger of losing money.

Romney's policies in MA were all but identical to Obama's. So yeah, lets roll with that. makes the President look mighty good there.

It is an easy choice really. Don't give the keys back to the party that totaled the family finances in 8 short years.

Now my own state - NC - is showing blue. Blue is now indicative of my mood, as well ...

United States public debt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
$1T to $16T? Huh?

SI

Florida could end all this speculation a lot earlier than anyone expected.

He's tied but Dade and Broward are only up to like 15%. I think Obama wins Florida and his numbers in Ohio look strong. I think this is mostly over.

SI

The Senate usually has the power in budgets, nuetralizing some of the craziness in the House version. Also, it is only the Senate that approves nominees. Also, I perceive that in legislative reconciliations between two versions, the versions end up being close to the Senate's. Finally, the Senate leaders are more powerful than the House leaders.

Addendum: I would favor the Legislature both be the opposite party IF any President has the balls to veto. Checks and Balances.

You really don't want anything to get done like, ever, in Washington =)

Chris Rock disagrees with you...

Not sure why it matters if it is public or not since it is obvious how everyone feels/votes based on anything they say.

Ok, I'll play.

Who did I vote for in the last 3 elections?

Ralph Nader.

Write in vote for this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGS8re8cIVI&feature

Assuming this is of the two major parties (so no "I didn't vote" or 3rd parties), I'd guess Bush, Obama, Romney.

EDIT: But it's a total shot in the dark. Going back to my point from a day or two ago, some folks wear their political identities on their sleeves and it's a huge part of who they are and what they believe in. Others not so much. And either way, it only makes up a portion of the composite of what others see.

SI

Pat Paulsen?

Kang?

I'd agree on Obama and Romney for WM's vote. Don't remember back enough to 2004 to say one way or the other there.

Which was basically my point. I do not wear my politics on my sleeve and I wish more people were that way. That was my point of the comment on the poll. Then CF came with this "bah, everyone knows who people vote for anyways based on what they say". And I don't think that's the case with a lot of people, myself included.

Your general thought process is right in that I don't vote on party lines fwiw. Your specifics are off, but I have voted for both parties for prez in the last 3 elections.


see above ;).