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View Poll Results: Hillary or Bush for President?
Hillary 21 60.00%
Jeb Bush 14 40.00%
Voters: 35. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 04-14-2015, 11:31 AM
 
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The primaries are over and it is between Hillary and Jeb Bush. Who would you want to be president and why? Remember not voting is a vote for the opposition.

I will vote for Hillary although I wish it would be Warren. But Hillary has the greatest chance of winning. With Hillary for me it is a vote against the GOP who will have the opportunity to stack the Supreme court with regressive conservatives. This really terrifies me for the fate and direction of the country.

I also think Hillary, although a hawk, will carry on Obama's foreign policy of Diplomacy over War. It will be difficult because Netanyahu will drag her into war and she might be unable to resist that kind of pressure which Obama has been able to with a little bit of success.
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Old 04-14-2015, 11:36 AM
 
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The primaries are over and it is between Hillary and Jeb Bush. Who would you want to be president and why? Remember not voting is a vote for the opposition.

I will vote for Hillary although I wish it would be Warren. But Hillary has the greatest chance of winning. With Hillary for me it is a vote against the GOP who will have the opportunity to stack the Supreme court with regressive conservatives. This really terrifies me for the fate and direction of the country.

I also think Hillary, although a hawk, will carry on Obama's foreign policy of Diplomacy over War. It will be difficult because Netanyahu will drag her into war and she might be unable to resist that kind of pressure which Obama has been able to with a little bit of success.
I would abstain from voting, and know in my heart that America is now without a doubt on borrowed time, think I would grill some good steaks and get drunk as a skunk.
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Old 04-14-2015, 11:46 AM
 
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Can't vote for either.

I WILL NOT for another Bush.
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Old 04-14-2015, 11:47 AM
 
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I would also not vote so that in 5 or 10 years when everything has gone to hell, I can look in a mirror and know I was not an enabler.
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Old 04-14-2015, 11:51 AM
 
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Neither. 3rd party unless Warren,Sanders and MAYBE Manchin or Schwartz join in the race.
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Old 04-14-2015, 12:04 PM
 
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Hillary will win.
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Old 04-14-2015, 12:05 PM
 
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Neither. 3rd party unless Warren,Sanders and MAYBE Manchin or Schwartz join in the race.

Too late. The media has pushed Hillary down our throats for over 2 years now for any Democratic contender even have a chance.
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Old 04-14-2015, 12:12 PM
 
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Too late. The media has pushed Hillary down our throats for over 2 years now for any Democratic contender even have a chance.
Hillary could set puppies on fire on national television and she'd still get the nod...and the vote. Let's see if she tackles any issue besides let's get a woman in office.
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Old 04-14-2015, 12:15 PM
 
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The primaries are over and it is between Hillary and Jeb Bush. Who would you want to be president and why? Remember not voting is a vote for the opposition.

I will vote for Hillary although I wish it would be Warren. But Hillary has the greatest chance of winning. With Hillary for me it is a vote against the GOP who will have the opportunity to stack the Supreme court with regressive conservatives. This really terrifies me for the fate and direction of the country.

I also think Hillary, although a hawk, will carry on Obama's foreign policy of Diplomacy over War. It will be difficult because Netanyahu will drag her into war and she might be unable to resist that kind of pressure which Obama has been able to with a little bit of success.
About sums it up for me. As much as I disagree with her on some issues, I see *no one* in the R contenders that I could stand to vote for.

And I really don't get the idea that if you don't vote, you can't be blamed. Seems a lot too childish to me.
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Old 04-14-2015, 03:01 PM
 
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It's difficult for me to ignore that both of their families represent elite corporate interests no matter how much they try to appear like the common person or distance themselves from their family's time in office. It would behoove both of them to keep this campaign about the future instead of digging in the dirt of the past because respectively their parties are never going to see eye to eye on certain issues. It's the swaying votes they have to cater to.

Republicans don't waste their votes and they're counting on reluctant Hillary hating liberals and democrats to waste their vote on an Independent or on principle. The GOP thrive on the apathy of a low voter turnout of the opposing party such as we saw with the last midterm elections where the GOP dominated the House and Senate in record numbers.

I also do factor in that four Supreme Court Justices will be 78, 80, 80 and 83 when the next President is sworn in, and that the future President will likely get to appoint replacements in the next decade for Stephen Breyer, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Ruth Bader Ginsberg when they announce retirement. I'd rather have a President that supports and represents more than half of what I stand for than someone who stands to oppose most everything I am for.
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