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1) If your choice of candidate drops out of the race before you vote in your state, do you care who they endorse? That is, do you transfer your allegiance based on who they say they will support? (This is for both Republicans and Democrats)
2) Right now Mitt Romney has his finger in the GOP race even though he isn't running. Does the fact that he lost twice make you (Republicans only) more likely (experience running) or less likely (two time loser) to listen to him? If you were a Republican candidate would you seek Romney's or McCain's endorsement?
3) Dems, if Reid and Pelosi endorsed someone would you be more likely to also vote for that person, less likely to vote for that person or be totally indifferent?
4) Republicans, if Boehner and McConnell endorsed someone would you be more likely to also vote for that person, less likely to vote for that person or be totally indifferent?
(I can't mention a GWB or a Bill Clinton or a Ron Paul endorsement for the obvious reason that they have family running.)
If Mitt endorses someone,I go the other way. Great guy. Great man and humanitarian. Wish he had fought to win in 2012 instead of run a gentleman's campaign. Yet he is not a conservative.
I don't automatically accept or reject endorsements. I factor them in when I'm deciding about someone, but I make my decision based on everything I think I know.
Sadly corporate endorsements by big businesses hurt GOP candidates because of their assigned reputation by the liberal community. If a candidate was heavily supported by Monsanto, ADM, Walmart and Goldman Sacks that poor candidate would not have a chance in hell because of all the media attention and the liberal community out there going on about bug business owning a candidate.
Oh, sorry, I am wrong that corporate support is not harming HRC one bit, OOPS.
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1) If your choice of candidate drops out of the race before you vote in your state, do you care who they endorse? That is, do you transfer your allegiance based on who they say they will support? (This is for both Republicans and Democrats)
No, people should stand on their merits, not whoever says they have some.
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3) Dems, if Reid and Pelosi endorsed someone would you be more likely to also vote for that person, less likely to vote for that person or be totally indifferent?
Totally indifferent, if they're not running their opinions matter little.
No, people should stand on their merits, not whoever says they have some.
Totally indifferent, if they're not running their opinions matter little.
I agree with you but not for the same reason. I think some of these candidates that drop out glom onto the candidate most likely to 1) give them a job or 2) help them pay off their campaign debt.
Endorsements don't make or break a candidate for me. I'm not more or less likely to support a candidate because of an endorsement. What I care about is the candidate and where the candidate stands, not another name of support.
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