Kerry (even though he was the worst Dem candidate)
Obama
Obama
Sanders (write in)

J A M I E @ 14/1/2018 18:59

im canadian. I'm offended by the question

Which was the last queen you voted for?

Igor @ 15/1/2018 1:44

Primate @ 14/1/2018 20:02 Also no offense to the OP, but this is a question you aren't supposed to ask. That's retarded. If you're afraid to say who you voted for then you're a pussy

From the guy who won't ever vote and then will complain about the election results?

Igor @ 15/1/2018 18:30

vladykins @ 15/1/2018 9:34 Igor @ 15/1/2018 1:44 Primate @ 14/1/2018 20:02 Also no offense to the OP, but this is a question you aren't supposed to ask. That's retarded. If you're afraid to say who you voted for then you're a pussy From the guy who won't ever vote and then will complain about the election results? Man, you're right. If only I voted then Hilldawg would be president

Because no decisions have ever come down to single vote being important. Oh wait, what happened here in Virginia a few weeks back?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/random-winner-drawing-tied-virginia-house-race-back-politicians-trade-n833511

Yep- tied race, which also was the determining race for whether Reps or Dems controlled the House of Delegates here. It literally became a random drawing of lots. The Reps won it and so they control the House of Delegates, all because somewhere in Virginia, one person didn't vote.

And just think if, say, 600 people in Florida had decided in 2000 to show up to the polls and vote Gore? 600 "I don't feel like it" people in the entire state of Florida who, through apathy, got us eight years of Dubya.

Yes, it effects local politics more, but why is that a bad thing? You definitely aren't showing up anyone by not voting at all. You are better off voting 3P to try to shake up the main parties than not voting at all.

Wikey @ 16/1/2018 15:19

Do they count spoiled ballots in USA?

You don't even want to know about the "hanging chad" controversy from that election.

The answer is- often they don't.

Localities handle balloting- at that same time period, my locality (Arlington County) had full electronic voting. Of course, that has its own issues (like hacking) so we now have physical ballots which are read by a machine. Personally, I think we could have kept the electronic, but had it print out a copy of the ballot that was confirmed by the voter and then put in a box.

In those areas in Florida, they had you punch holes in the ballots. The set up of the ballots were also really dumb (the single line down the middle making it harder to determine who you were voting for).

Primate @ 16/1/2018 20:18

Mads @ 16/1/2018 18:46 Primate @ 16/1/2018 17:19 Ahoda @ 16/1/2018 6:27 I usually vote republican due to the industry I work in. My political beliefs are usually right down the middle. This year I refused to vote either of those giant turds and went 3P. I vote 3p pretty regularly. My big hope is that trump will scare the parties so bad that they either head back to center or go so far out there that the people will finally stop drinking that jungle juice they shit out. I can tell you firsthand that that isn’t happening lol I would add that it is happening more and more at the local level. I have also read that the dems will head further left in the 2018 elections.

Maybe, but I see a lot of older Dems backing the current center-right establishment folks, bitching about the " BernieBros as they like to discount the lefties. There is actually an older woman I know who keeps bitching about how the younger voters who backed Bernie "haven't earned a place".

In short, look for Dems to win in 2018, but to still need to find their ass before 2020.

Yeah- I expect a lot of "I'm not Trump" campaigns on both sides of the aisle. But that's not a campaign- if so, I should be elected.

Dadd @ 17/1/2018 11:26

Vlady/Mads 2020

I have too many skeletons in my closet to ever pull a decent Southern strategy.

Mads @ 17/1/2018 11:44

vladykins @ 17/1/2018 12:34 Dadd @ 17/1/2018 11:26 Vlady/Mads 2020 I have too many skeletons in my closet to ever pull a decent Southern strategy. I’m squeaky clean!

That's because you weren't an early-90s DC goth going to BDSM events which, amazingly enough, had quite a few Republican Congressional staffers at.

But I digress.

Mads @ 17/1/2018 15:55

You’re very right about that.

I had a DJ friend. One of the times we went, though, we went with a Rep staffer who liked getting spanked. His wife was hot and looked great in latex, but he liked getting spanked by this other fugly chick for some reason. They divorced later, to no surprise.

Dadd @ 17/1/2018 17:25

vladykins @ 17/1/2018 16:25 Mads @ 17/1/2018 15:55 You’re very right about that. I had a DJ friend. One of the times we went, though, we went with a Rep staffer who liked getting spanked. His wife was hot and looked great in latex, but he liked getting spanked by this other fugly chick for some reason. They divorced later, to no surprise. I'm assuming the fugly chick looked manly

She was not attractive, but not manish either.