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View Poll Results: Write-in?
Yes, all the current options suck. 14 70.00%
No, are you crazy? 6 30.00%
Voters: 20. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 05-06-2008, 02:49 AM
 
Location: Huntersville/Charlotte, NC and Washington, DC
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Does anyone seriously plan to write in a canidiate for this election? I'm just so dismayed with all 3 i may write someone in.
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Old 05-06-2008, 05:32 AM
 
Location: Bradenton, Florida
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Were I to ACTUALLY vote, the only candidate I'd write in was....ME.
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Old 05-06-2008, 06:49 AM
 
Location: Dallas, NC
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I will write in Hillary in November if my options are Obama or McCain. I won't be part of the group that enables the Republicans to continue their current path and I WON'T ever cast a ballot for Obama.
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Old 05-06-2008, 07:32 AM
 
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I don't know if we can do a write in for a canidiate. I'm in Florida home of the hanging chad! We have changed the way we vote and I don't know if a write in could be done. People say its a wasted vote, but why vote for a person that a privately owned party tells us to vote for. Thats a wasted vote!! Where is the freedom in that! I don't like any of the three now, so if I vote for one of the two that are left in this election. wouldnt that be a wasted vote? mmmmmmmmm thats deep !!!!
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Old 05-06-2008, 08:46 AM
miu
 
Location: MA/NH
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I wouldn't write in a candidate. If the election were between Obama and Mccain, my voting strategy will then be to make sure that the worst candidate for the job doesn't get elected. Remember that the people voting for Nader helped Bush win.
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Old 05-06-2008, 04:22 PM
 
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The only person worth writing in would be Ron Paul.
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Old 05-06-2008, 04:33 PM
 
Location: Houston, Texas
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If they all suck then why bother voting? I know I know you have the right to vote. Yeah but you also have the right NOT to vote and if there is no one to vote for then it only makes sense to stay home and rent a good movie on Nov 7.

If you really feel the need to vote for the lessor of 2 evils then dont ever forget what your 1st grade teacher taught you about 2 wrongs dont make a right.......just as the lessor of 2 evils is still very very evil.

But if you still insist on voting a write in. Do what millions of others are doing: Write in Ron Paul. If you do not love freedom and you do love the IRS and more govt then you can always forget Ron Paul and write in Les Spending. He is a real nice guy ya know.
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Old 05-06-2008, 04:37 PM
 
Location: Houston, Texas
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Remember that the people voting for Nader helped Bush win.

You could look at it that way. Or you could look at it like the people wanted a president rather then a Dictator who eventually shreadded our Constitution and then called it "just a G-damn piece of paper".

How would Nadar have done as president? Who knows? One has to admit though, he is FOR the people. Like him or not, whether you owned a Chevy Corvair or not, Nadar would have had a good shot at staying honest unlike the others.

Oh yea......and bushy only won once. The other time he lost fair and square. The courts appointed him the other time. May bushy be damned too.
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Old 05-07-2008, 05:39 AM
 
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The only person worth writing in would be Ron Paul.
Yeah, Thats what I was thinking also.
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Old 05-07-2008, 07:17 AM
 
Location: Wilmington, NC
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I might write in thomas jefferson.
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