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yes I did... I couldnt vote for Trump or Clinton in good conscious. I know Clinton will win Minnesota so its not like my vote mattered specifically....
The fact is, you're getting one of them. If you really sit and think about it, I'm sure you'd realize one is more harmful than another.
You know I respect you, I just don't think this is wise...
But, I get that it's your vote to do with as you want.
Yeah, I realize we'll get one of them, doesn't mean I have to vote for one. And honestly, as much as I would not want to see Trump as president, I'd be far more concerned with some of his lunatic groupies than him.
Clinton will probably win anyways, so you didn't need my vote.
I didn't write in but I voted third party for president for the first time. I voted for the person who shared the same philosophy as I do on the issues and who would make a competent president. I really considered the major party candidates. I carefully analyzed the pluses and minuses of both. I don't like either Trump or Clinton and I couldn't choose between them.It's like a vegetarian choosing between eating chicken or beef.
In the end I voted for the person I actually want to be president (no political games of who is the lesser evil), even if there is no hope. I know Trump or Clinton will win the election. Clinton is expected to win my state. But I see them both being equally poor choices for different reasons. I see my votes on my state's constitutional amendments and local tax and bond issues as being more impactful than if either Clinton or Trump wins.
Wanted to add, one thing I find funny is that I've heard from Democrats that voting for a third party is a vote for Trump... but I've also heard from Republicans that a vote for third party is a vote for Clinton. Why is it both sides think that and can't see that it's really a vote for neither?
Wow, thanks, stepped away and came back to find a lot of responses.
To those who offered the expected "wasted your vote" opinion, I get that perspective, I really do. I struggled right up to this morning with whether I was going to do it or not.
Not voting is not an option for me. My father was a 100% disabled WWII veteran who voted every election, big or small. His ghost would haunt me if I didn't vote. My mother will be 88 years old on Saturday. She votes, and she never, ever tells anyone for whom she voted.
In the end, I decided to do the write-in for the sake of a clear conscience. I am 58 years old, and this is the first time in my life I wrote in the name for a Presidential candidate. I am making a rather ineffective statement, I know. I am curious to see tomorrow how many people felt as I did, that they could not vote for either main-party candidate. I did look at the Libertarian and Green Party candidates as well, but there was just nothing that sparked me about either one.
Though my statement today might be ineffective, I am hoping against hope that we wake up and see that we need something better than the two-party machine system we have now. We need not to allow this situation of having to choose the lesser of two bad choices to happen again.
I'm pretty sure I will wake up tomorrow and find that we have elected our first woman president, and that is something. I am just old enough to remember seeing my first woman letter carrier, my first woman police officer, and we got our first woman engineer in my department back when I was still a secretary. We've come a long way, baby. Now we have to join together, regardless of gender, race, religion or whatever, and tell whoever is taking up seats in DC that we demand and expect better than what we've been getting.
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