Ontopic Candidate Preference Poll
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Jimmycrackcorn
abscesschin
it didn't need to be explained....she's trying to sell her championing of it as an explanation
Jimmycrackcorn
abscesschin
5%-
I Felt the Johnson.
For the same reason thintoast and Domon said.
I guess I'd rather take my chances with Trump than Clinton, mostly because we're not supposed to have dynasties in this country.
Basically voted Libertarian everywhere it was an option, Green where it wasn't, against the incumbent where only R & D were offered (term limits/citizen politicians, not career ones) and left blank anything that only had one person running unopposed.
Basically same thing I've done for several elections now.
We didn't have a marijuana option because Texas but would've voted pro-pot if I could.
Voted Neither in this poll.
I Felt the Johnson.
For the same reason thintoast and Domon said.
I guess I'd rather take my chances with Trump than Clinton, mostly because we're not supposed to have dynasties in this country.
Basically voted Libertarian everywhere it was an option, Green where it wasn't, against the incumbent where only R & D were offered (term limits/citizen politicians, not career ones) and left blank anything that only had one person running unopposed.
Basically same thing I've done for several elections now.
We didn't have a marijuana option because Texas but would've voted pro-pot if I could.
Voted Neither in this poll.
Jimmycrackcorn
abscesschin
Jimmycrackcorn
abscesschin
Darth Handsome
Not Nearly as Handsome as Advertised.
Its not democracy. Two parties? Divide? Conquer? Cello?
Ok, how about this.
What of Trump's policies seem good?
1) Term limits on congress is reasonable to me. I understand that elections are term limits in a way, but setting a total limit of 4 or 5 terms would help to avoid stagnation.
2) Repeal ACA? Sure, if something better is offered in its place that isnt just "go back to the way things were"
3) Withdrawing from the TPP
What of Trump's policies seem good?
1) Term limits on congress is reasonable to me. I understand that elections are term limits in a way, but setting a total limit of 4 or 5 terms would help to avoid stagnation.
2) Repeal ACA? Sure, if something better is offered in its place that isnt just "go back to the way things were"
3) Withdrawing from the TPP
i voted for johnson because even though i don't agree on certain issues with him, he's the only sane one i saw on the ballot. he's really the only one i felt i could actually vote for and have a clear conscious 20 years from now. if he wasn't an option, it's no secret i would have opted for trump and all his flaws over hillary and all her flaws.
there's some multiple term politicians here i've met and liked oddly enough, so they got my vote. hell, my old lawyer is a democrat and ran for attorney general, she got my vote (but lost the election). all others i voted for based on how they treated certain local issues, so their past records so to speak. most of my choices were new blood over incumbents.
we also had like 20 judges we got to vote to keep or not. after seeing how unfairly minorities are treated here in the courtrooms (yea i know, everywhere) after the fallout in ferguson i decided they should all go.
as a wall enthusiast and as a person with a youtube channel with a collection of my video's of fantastic walls around the greater st louis area... you're not gonna like my answer.
judges were the toughest vote for me, so little information about them out there. Probably took me half an hour of research per judge (we only had 6) to form a reasonable opinion.
lets make it a tourist attraction, like the great wall of china ,that creates revenue and make sure that it pays for itself in a certain period. A great spectacle.
I'm all for term limits and 4 or 5 seems too many to me, especially in the Senate.
Healthcare is so fucked and expensive pre and post ACA I'm willing to throw my idealistic political stuff aside and try single payer if it seemed like it might work. I could see it getting abused and clogged up with every runny nose and paper cut but people do that with the ER now. I'd like to hear ideas from the actual docs, nurses, lab techs, etc. doing the day to day work for good ideas. It's now hugely inefficient and expensive.
I like the concept of redoing trade deals, fixing imbalances, making stuff here, not being dependent on China for every little consumer item in your house, etc., but that topic has been long on sloganeering and short on substance.
the weirdest part is missouri has it's own way of voting on judges. basically the judges are all appointed, then we choose whether to keep them or not. "should we keep Judge X." yes or no. it's called the missouri plan.
the worst thing I could find on any of mine was that one had to recuse herself from a case but it doesn't say why. unless I started going through court records and interpreting their decisions I wasn't going to be any more informed than when I started
the best metric I could come up with was keeping those that spent a long time in the public defender's office and all but one had.