It wasn't that many years ago that the American voter would not vote for a Catholic, a Mormon or a Jew because they weren't Christians. Yet we elected one of them to be president and damn near elected another one just a few years ago. Today the pundits are saying we won't vote for a Christian because he believes in the the teachings on creationism.

Personal religious beliefs are never going to be universal throughout the electorate, to make them a focus of a campaign against someone, shows a weakness in the accusers platform.

 

Shooter keeps thinking the old dog will post something new, but is constantly disappointed.
Apparently the dogs link to the Democratic hate machine propaganda archives haven't been refreshed since the Clinton administration.
And as everyone knows, the puppet of socialism hasn't had an original thought since he discovered that girls can actually think for themselves.

 

Seems to me, that you are doing more of the infamous ''DL assuming'' once again.

Is believing in God, really all that bad, you need to believe in something, in my mind, itis far better to elect an individual that believes in God, rather that electing an individual that wholeheartedly believes in the Easter bunny.

Or is it, that you only want to smear Carson, because there just can't be a black man on the GOP ticket for POTUS?

 

No.

Even if it comes down to Trump vs. Hillary, it is a choice with policy consequences.

Besides, every major election puts many contests on the ballot, most of which are local and have a direct impact on your life.

Not voting is laziness combined with ignorance.

 

Meaning, you don't know and you're making shit up as usual.

DL, if you're a Catholic, you literally believe that bread wafers turn into Christ's flesh and the wine in the chalice turns into Christ's blood when the bells ring. You know, transubstantiation and all that.

 

Perry the Platypus!

 

i disagree
not voting is just a symbol of being willing to allow any one to do as they wish with no reason to expect reprisals
if you do not vote for or against you cannot be allowed a voice either for or against any policy or person
it is that one last stand that you can take to draw your personal line to say i will not accept it
if you fail to vote for somethng you have thereby condoned it

 

Participation in the electoral process is a civic duty, and democratic systems depend on it.

This means more than just voting. It also means reading the news on a regular basis and staying informed. It means knowing more about the candidates than the one soundbite that resonates from Yahoo News. It means that if you do not like any of the candidates, you should run yourself, or find someone else you can support.

In a sense voting is the least part of the civic duty, and for me they're all wrapped up together.

Although, in this particular race, which started out with more than twenty-five presidential candidates that we know about (and hundreds more officially running), is it really possible that every last one of them are "douches?" Not a chance. They can't all be "douches." Most of them, whether you're for or against their policy positions, are pretty good people who are working a lot harder to improve things than most of us.

So, yeah. Not voting, not being informed, not forming convictions and standing by them: to me it's not a "statement." It's an abrogation of your civic duty.

Most democracies require their citizens to educate themselves about the candidates and vote.

 

when was the last time that you searched a candidate?
lets look at hits for carson
i get 12,500,00 hits when i look up ben carson
then there are the side links like that he lost his medical license in all 50 states
trump and fiorina are about the same
jeb bush is 4.78 million
hillary clinton is 11.8 million
sanders is 8.6 million
so what in those is the truth?

 

Not voting is a cop out for lazy ass idiots, period.

There are provisions to write in any name that you wish to. That not only allows you to voice your displeasure with the slate of candidates offered, but you exercize your voting rights as well.

 

Would writing in a joke name count? Isn't writing in a name a waste? How is it better than not voting? Who will listen to my dissatisfaction in the choice of candidates offered, moreover, why would it matter? What change can I affect? (Bear with me. Voter apathy combined with clinical depression is making this an especially difficult time)

 

If they choose not to vote, they dont have a voice, and , write-ins are a waste of time.

I have always voted for the lesser of the two evils.

 

Which is your choice.

The words written on a ballot have infinitely more power than those written only in your mind.

 

If it makes you feel better to use the ''write-in''option, by all means use it, I have serious doubts that any write in has ever been elected, so therefor, it is a waste of time.

You really are becoming deranged, extremely confrontational, and above all, a fucking hypocrite.

 

I wouldn't vote for either Hillary or Carson if that's the two major candidates on the ballet. I see no comfort in voting for one asshole over the other. I despise both of them but I will vote though, I always do. I get good mileage out of state and local elections but feel left out during the presidential elections.

If it's Carson or Hillary, I'm voting Green even though the Green Party has no chance.

You have to look at yourself in the mirror and know you're not part of the problem.

 

How does it have power? More to the point, do you honestly think it's power enough to affect change? I doubt people would take a campaign supporting a write in for the presidential election would be taken seriously. At best, it might upset the balance enough to tip in favor of one candidate.

Ace's, to the best of my knowledge, write ins have been elected but I've only ever heard of it happening at the local (mayor/city council members), and possibly state levels... Didn't some place in Canada elect a tree as it's mayor? And I think a cat once held office in someplace in like... Ohio or something, idk.

Maybe Rixer has the right idea...

 

Most elections are won or lost on less than a hundred votes, and it is the many little elections that have the biggest impact on individual lives.

Not voting is a lazy cop-out.

 

Then what do I do? Why should I vote for one candidate over the other when they're both terrible? The one that promises to help me, my situation, the most? What's stopping them from promising me the world and then not following through once they're in power? What's the point of it all? Some stupid hope that it'll get better someday?Faith that the one in charge will do the right thing? Fuck that. There is no hope.

 

Ask Jesus . . . .or Obama . . . your choice.

 

They are both alarmingly silent on the issue.