Voting Poll

I don't fit this well at all.

I'm voting for libertarian everywhere available on the ballot. I am voting for a Democrat for State House (my 2nd Democrat vote ever). And beyond that begrudgingly GOP.

(11-03-2014 11:16 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  I don't fit this well at all.

I'm voting for libertarian everywhere available on the ballot. I am voting for a Democrat for State House (my 2nd Democrat vote ever). And beyond that begrudgingly GOP.

I think that means you are generally third party since they a third party is your preference wherever available.

(11-03-2014 11:18 PM)UM2001GRAD Wrote:  

(11-03-2014 11:16 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  I don't fit this well at all.

I'm voting for libertarian everywhere available on the ballot. I am voting for a Democrat for State House (my 2nd Democrat vote ever). And beyond that begrudgingly GOP.

I think that means you are generally third party since they a third party is your preference wherever available.

The trouble is, it is rarely available. My sample ballot from SCVotes is over FOUR PAGES long. But libertarians are maybe on 1/2 to 1 page on that.

I'm all or mostly conservative, socially and fiscally. But I don't see a category for that in this poll so I guess I'm unable to vote in it.

One GOPer for the House and one write-in, probably myself, for the Senate.

Holding my nose and voting for Gillespie. Warner was a decent centrist governor and, believe it or not, I voted for his senate campaign last time. He has been a disappointment and voted in lockstep with Harry and Barry. The Libertarian is a leftist. I would consider libertarian if it was a conservative one as I don't like Gillespie, but Sarvis is a leftist libertarian.

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I only had two real elections to worry about.. and that was our House Seat and our State house seat, and both of those went GOP

Everything else was pretty much decided, so it was either incumbent or 3rd party for me this time around.

Then we have to vote on retaining/removing judges (most boring part of an election.. just remove them all every election cycle!)

And four state constitutional amendments.... (how some of these things get on the ballot, I'll never know)

(11-03-2014 11:16 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  I don't fit this well at all.

I'm voting for libertarian everywhere available on the ballot. I am voting for a Democrat for State House (my 2nd Democrat vote ever). And beyond that begrudgingly GOP.

Me neither. I try to ignore the letters next to their name...so I don't really know how mine will end up.

Especially here in Michigan. We vote for the board of regents for UM, MSU and Wayne State. Party really has no bearing whatsoever for those positions...at least to me.

I'm likely going to vote GOP in the Maryland Governor race. The Democratic candidate is a neophyte of O' Malley - and that guy nearly ruined the damn state.

Maryland Republicans tend to be rational and moderate - which makes them very electable.

The spin room is mostly Republican, hmmmm, you don't say.

(11-04-2014 10:09 AM)firmbizzle Wrote:  The spin room is mostly Republican, hmmmm, you don't say.

Flawed options list is flawed.

Beginning with the General Election of 2010, I have voted for every Libertarian on the ballot. For offices Without a Libertarian candidate, but With a Republican and a Democrat candidate, I support the Republican about 80% of the time (personal guess; I'm not keeping count) and the Democrat about 20% of the time.

Georgia's law (requiring an absolute popular-vote majority in order to win statewide office) gives me the freedom to vote Libertarian without too much concern that my second-choice will get eliminated. I figure if someone can get 50%+1, more power to them. If not, I can choose between the top 2 in a run-off later.

Like I said they don't cover me well. And you damn write that is a write in there ... the candidates for Secretary of Education in SC were all so universally abominable I wrote in Ron Paul.

(11-04-2014 12:06 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  the candidates for Secretary of Education in SC were all so universally abominable

Is that the one where Mark Sanford's wife made the TV-ad with the Democrat? It's a funny ad, but I doubt it will be enough to pull a Democrat over the finish-line in S.C.

(11-04-2014 12:29 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(11-04-2014 12:06 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  the candidates for Secretary of Education in SC were all so universally abominable

Is that the one where Mark Sanford's wife made the TV-ad with the Democrat? It's a funny ad, but I doubt it will be enough to pull a Democrat over the finish-line in S.C.

No idea. There was a push of conservatives behind the Democrat for Secretary of State. I believe the Democrat was even endorsed by SC Club for Growth.

The GOP primary for S.o.E. was enormous ... like 8 people. The person, astonishingly, who won ... is a former Democrat, said "you have to abandon what you say in the campaign once you're elected" publicly, will probably be for Common Core, and against School Choice which SC **ALMOST** passed last session. And not watered down school choice ... CATO called it the strongest bill drafted in the nation. Full choice for homeschooling, parochial, private, and public.

I'm not sure who None of Above is , but I wrote him in on several Races.
Since GA has a runoff it is different from a not voting for any candidate.

Example:
500 for D
499 for R
1 for None of Above
would force a runoff.


500 for D
499 for R
1 Abstain
D would win with 500 of 999 votes.

I would love to have instant runoff
then my ballots would look like
L/R/None of Above

None of Above/R

(11-04-2014 12:31 PM)sparkomemphis Wrote:  I'm not sure who None of Above is , but I wrote him in on several Races.
Since GA has a runoff it is different from a not voting for any candidate.

Example:
500 for D
499 for R
1 for None of Above
would force a runoff.


500 for D
499 for R
1 Abstain
D would win with 500 of 999 votes.

I would love to have instant runoff
then my ballots would look like
L/R/None of Above

None of Above/R

You should get M's to install a voting precinct for you there. Certainly you've purchased enough beer to qualify for such a benefit by now?

(11-04-2014 12:30 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(11-04-2014 12:29 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(11-04-2014 12:06 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  the candidates for Secretary of Education in SC were all so universally abominable

Is that the one where Mark Sanford's wife made the TV-ad with the Democrat? It's a funny ad, but I doubt it will be enough to pull a Democrat over the finish-line in S.C.

No idea. There was a push of conservatives behind the Democrat for Secretary of State. I believe the Democrat was even endorsed by SC Club for Growth.

Yeah, that's the one. The Democrat is named Ginny Deerin and she's running against incumbent GOP'er Mark Hammond. The set-up for the ad is that Ms. Sanford keeps talking about all the bad stuff that "Mark" has done, and of course the audience is supposed to make the connection with her loser ex-husband who's back to being a Congressman again.

(11-04-2014 12:33 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(11-04-2014 12:31 PM)sparkomemphis Wrote:  I'm not sure who None of Above is , but I wrote him in on several Races.
Since GA has a runoff it is different from a not voting for any candidate.

Example:
500 for D
499 for R
1 for None of Above
would force a runoff.


500 for D
499 for R
1 Abstain
D would win with 500 of 999 votes.

I would love to have instant runoff
then my ballots would look like
L/R/None of Above

None of Above/R

You should get M's to install a voting precinct for you there. Certainly you've purchased enough beer to qualify for such a benefit by now?

The Elementary school I vote at is not far from there.