POLL: Are you going to vote for the Dem nominee if it's someone you don't like?

[Selatius]

Poll question: POLL: Are you going to vote for the Dem nominee if it's someone you don't like?

What say you? Are you going to vote for the Democrat in the general election if it's someone you do not agree with?

[ShortnFiery]

1. If HRC's the nominee I'm going to write in the Non-DLC Democrat, Dennis Kucinich.

;)

[gateley]

6. Hi SnF -- I'm really hoping that's not the case (HRC as the nominee). Her

nomination has the greatest potential to split the votes (not well put, you know what I mean) because she is so intensely disliked and mistrusted.

[ShortnFiery]

18. Yes, I concur. I hope that it's Kucinich but realistically it could be Obama or Edwards. nt

[Nye Bevan]

14. Excellent idea

That'll show them. Just like the Naderites did in 2000. And so what if Romney/Thompson/Giuliani get to nominate 2 or 3 Supreme Court justices? They will only be on the court for the next 30 years or so.

[TahitiNut]

20. The "conventional whiz dumb" huh?

As long as I've been on this planet, such bullying and blackmail has been the currency of the right wing. It has been the common 'rationale' for nominating (so-called) moderates because those 'centrists' would otherwise vote for the right-wing GOP candidate.

Indeed, it has been claimed over and over and over again that the Democratic Party cannot nominate a Jimmy Carter or George McGovern or Dennis Kucinich or other solid liberal candidate because the 'moderates' have a HISTORY of walking away and voting for the right wing neoconservative.

The same tactics were used to hijack the GOP ... a refusal to support a more progressive Republican unless the insane bigots and zealots and corporatists were served.

Let's make this clear: the same poltical ideologies refusing to support the BETTER liberal candidates have been actually voting GOP (NOT merely staying away) for decades when they didn't get their way. It's like far too many "Southerners" have done - refuse to support any ticket, R or D, on which a soutnern candidate is not listed. And liberals have been the losers. Enough.

Fuck whose who want it one way - further right and increasingly Fascist.

It's past time for people of conscience to stop enabling fascist fucks who've taken both political parties further and further to the right ... and now want to denigrate and threaten anyone who'd try to use THEIR tactics - the tactics of threatened loss of support if they don't get THEIR way.

NOBODY has the right to tell me how to vote. It has to be earned.

[Individualist]

15. Ditto

[TahitiNut]

16. Ditto.

:shrug:

[gateley]

2. What is a "safe state"? Thanks. nt

[TwilightZone]

4. Essentially uncontested. Utah, for example.

I'd say that one has no chance of going to our nominee.

[Selatius]

7. Good example. n/t

[gateley]

9. Thank you. You guys are always so helpful to my continuing political education. nt

[TwilightZone]

3. I like the Republican nominees significantly less than any of ours.

n/t

[Warpy]

5. I'll vote for Hillary and her universally unaffordable, universally bad

for profit insurance scheme. Then I will continue my plans to move someplace I can get national health insurance.

I can no longer afford to stay in my own country and her health plan won't change that fact.

[gateley]

11. This is actually the first time in my life that I've even given thought to

moving to another country. It's heartbreaking, but so is the situation here.

[Roxy66]

8. Yes!!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. I'll be voting for the most progressive anti-war candidate on the ballot....

even if I have to write one in.

[blondeatlast]

12. I'm in a state that has a real chance to go blue so depending on the nominee,

I may have a conscientious struggle on my hands.

[azmouse]

13. Shoot, if I could hold my nose and vote for Dukakis in '88,

I can easily vote for any of the current Dem candidates.

[robinlynne]

17. I don't think now is really the right time to make that decision. I think right now is

the time to support the candidate of your choice, help some of the WONDERFUL left-wing candidates for congress and senate who really need us, because they are opposed by the dcc (or dlcc, or whomever rahm emanuel's group is), make the current congress hear us, stop the war, NOT let another war happen, support the ACLU in their current campaign to restore civil liberties, work on election protection in every state so that we can actually VOTE and have our votes COUNTED AS CAST....

[cyclezealot]

19. I voted other because of Hillary's vote for Kyl Liebermann

If the well being of a Democratic victory were at stake i'd hold my nose and vote Hillary. She continues to go for the likes of Kyl Liebermann it will really make it a tough vote to cast. I wont do so because of hope for a significantly better foreign policy but because of economics , the Justice Department must be taken out of Republican hands , and the Supreme COurt. If not for that i'd likely vote third party.

[emilyg]

21. Yes.

[Vidar]

22. Not if he /she is a collaborator.

[Bitwit1234]

23. Unlike the faux democrats.....

I believe that ANY democrat candidate will be better than a republican in office. Then of course I BELIEVE in the democratic principal. I have been around 75 years and can see what republicans do when they take office. Even the republicans people THINK are benign.

[TheUniverse]

24. Yes I will vote for any of the Democrats except....

Lyndon LaRouche! :P