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Zhang Fei · 08-12-2011, 08:59 PM

Obama/Biden, McCain/Palin, or third party?

mackinac81 · 08-12-2011, 09:10 PM

Third party. I didn't feel comfortable enough with Obama and I couldn't stomach four more years of the GOP.

theunbrainwashed · 08-12-2011, 09:11 PM

Obama/Biden. He was not my first choice though, my primary vote would have gone to Mike Gravel if he had stayed long enough for the PA primary

The Right Side_TX · 08-12-2011, 09:12 PM

McCain even though he wasn't ideal. Better than the other option by far. But we all know how that turned out.

bigchuckie · 08-12-2011, 09:14 PM

you forgot to add none they all sucked

Tatooine · 08-12-2011, 09:41 PM

I liked McCain until his campaigning went overly negative, and Palin pretty muched ended that vote for me. I did end up voting for Obama.

eskercurve · 08-13-2011, 12:07 AM

Yeah, I was leaning McCain, but when the ultra-right evangelicals and ultra-right teabaggers decided they needed a Bible-literalist, folksy, half-wit governor as his running mate, it doomed my vote. I want to know if my potential future president, should something happen to McCain and he dies, would really believe that dinosaurs walked the earth 4000 years ago. That is important to me.

roysoldboy · 08-13-2011, 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Tatooine

I liked McCain until his campaigning went overly negative, and Palin pretty muched ended that vote for me. I did end up voting for Obama.

I voted for Sarah and that white haired guy running with her. I couldn't vote for Biden so Obama had no chance of getting my vote.

Joe_Ryder · 08-13-2011, 12:35 AM

I voted for Bob Barr, a Libertarian. Though not particularly enamored with anyone on the 2008 Ballot, I just couldn't cast a vote for the Obama/McCain dog and pony show.

I had been hoping Ron Paul would get the Republican nomination but that didn't happen. I didn't particularly like McCain but favored him over Obama. I would've picked Kucinich over McCain but he like Paul was kicked to the curb by his own party. When McCain chose Palin as a running mate, I went Libertarian. While McCain was a healthy man, he was getting on in years and I could just imagine that ditz taking the office if something happened to McCain. The thought still gives me shivers.

sacramento916 · 08-13-2011, 12:49 AM

Obama and I didn't regret it.

I knew he wasn't going to deliver on everything, and knew he would be constrained by the system in Washington. But he was far better choice than McCain and a far better choice than a continuum of the Bush disaster.

However, if Ron Paul is running this year, he will get my vote.