I will not tell you how to cast your vote because: 1) I don’t know who I’m voting for, and 2) Why in the world should you care which candidate gets my vote?
Honestly, if you knew who I was voting for – if I knew for whom I was voting – would it make a difference? Would you change your mind? Would you quickly look at the person next to you and yell “OMG Brenda’s voting for Thus-and-so, I’ve got to do the same!!”
If you said yes, you are in far worse shape.
Right now – pre-Monday night Presidential debate – I have no idea who I will support. There’s just too much I hate about each major party candidate. I’m independent, I’ve voted Republican and Democrat. I’ve voted conservative and liberal. It may sound like I can’t make up my mind, but quite honestly I just don’t believe one party always has the right answers.
This year is incredibly difficult. It seems uglier than I ever remember. Even people I strongly respect are falling into the love one/despise the other trap.
She’s perfect – he’s an idiot.
He will save us – she’s a criminal.
I have a hard time resigning myself to a vote for the lesser of two evils. And I don’t want to cast my vote for someone as a vote “against” the other.
Third party candidates are a consideration. I’ve heard all the arguments. If I vote for a third party I’m just pulling votes from the major party candidates. Although to that I say: So what, isn’t that the point?
The real question is can a third party garner enough votes to win?
I believe the answer to that is no. So if I vote third party, and watch my candidate lose, do I still consider my vote a success? Have I sent a message to Washington? Doubt it.
Washington doesn’t seem to be listening to anything being said by regular folks like me. If they were, the budget would be balanced, social programs would be fully-funded and there would be a unicorn in every garage.
It’s hard to remember a presidential election that has been so volatile, so filled with anger and contempt. While I’ve read that many scholars consider the Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams contest of 1828 to be the most despicable, at least they didn’t have social media.
Every day we get daily doses of our friends’ feelings, usually hated for one or passion for another in and among the pictures of kitties and puppies.
I’ll watch the debate tonight and hopefully learn something new. Maybe I’ll hate one less than the other or become a firm third party voter. Who knows.
A friend recently posted: “I wish this presidential election would be over so I could like people again.”
I could not agree more.
I don’t care much for Hillary but I have to vote for the party not the individual. I have to vote for a party that has but not always will work for working people and the poor which is usually democrat. They are far from perfect but I know for sure Trump is not for me or the middle class. With all that a republican governor and majority of the legislator has done for this state and flint and genesee county, which has been nothing, I will not vote for any republican.
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i have been a lifelong democrat. sometimes i vote republican because i try to the best of my knowledge to vote for the person who sounds like he has my concerns and what is best for my country in mind. with that, i cannot vote for the person who has that YOUUGE billboard on i-75 near clio that says Hillary does not love america. i honestly cannot imagine any of our presidents not loving this country. even trump – although i feel he loves himself and adoration more than country. and of course i have more reasons – but that hit me over the weekend.
I am in the same boat you’re in, Brenda. I haven’t got a clue!
I vote Pro-life, so I will vote for Trump for president.
I vote Pro-life, so I will vote Trump for president. Hopefully, he will appoint Pro-life Supreme Court judges. There’s no chance of that with Clinton.
Did you watch the debate? Or, did you fall asleep on your couch half-way through, as I did, and wake up with some silly late show blaring?
Brenda, dear, I love to read you, but I scold you for even entertaining the notion of voting for Mr. Trump.
Did the Tigers win? Normally, I would have fallen asleep watching them rather than that Hil and Don Show.
I watched the debate, unfortunately the Tigers didn’t win (I kept up there, too).
Well stated but sad that we feel this way for this 2016 Election. It used to be we looked up to the candidates as statesmen/women (at least, when I was a little girl). Now we have a big mouth and a feminist.
Thank you to you and Andy for speaking out.
It does make me sad.
I don’t have a problem admitting I’ll vote for Hillary. She’s far from ideal but is for many of my best interests personally, nationally there is no way I want that Trump baboon representing us to the world or making any type of foreign diplomacy decisions including military ones.
What bothers me most is the single issue voters, half the time it’s about taking away someone else’s rights. Two simple and totally polar examples are gun control and abortion. The people that want to ban one or the other or both don’t care what you think. I’m quite liberal and figure it’s your right to own a gun, I do. As to abortion I think it’s a personal or individual issue and none of my business unless I happened to be the sperm donator but even then it wouldn’t be in hands to decide.