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Originally Posted by Astrocloud
No candidate has ever agreed with my opinion 100% -therefore to vote for any candidate is an act of compromise (on my part). So I vote AGAINST candidates who I believe are against my position.
It's not easy, because I am 'joining a cause' to fight a greater evil but I think a lot of people do it.
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I see what your saying...yet I wonder if there were elections were you voted for someone you genuinely liked. You give the impression that most of the time your vote went to someone who was more the opposite of the opposition, rather than someone you could vote for outright based upon their own merits.
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Originally Posted by loquitur
there hasn't yet been a perfect candidate. Generally, I try to vote for the candidate who agrees with me on the things I care most about in that particular election. If there isn't one, I vote for the one likely to do the least harm.
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The key phrase for me in how I vote is, as you say, how candidates stand on issues
of that particular election. Changing needs for changing times. About Richardson, he reminds me of a democratic McCain: always looking for a camera to preen into. I once saw Richardson at a Tyson fight here in Detroit. He was sitting ringside, chatting with a pair of rather hot, impeccably dressed ladies sitting directly on either side of him the entire night. If he was married back then, he sure wasn't acting like it.
Here's an electability issue dealing with campaign funding that I found somewhat disturbing. Bill Clinton, a former POTUS, fundraising for his office-seeking spouse. This seems to me shady at best. I'm all for trying to gain a financial advantage over your opponent in these matters, but a former POTUS seems to me to be in a unique position relative to obtaining campaign dollars. Might we, in effect, be possibly re-electing a former President to a 3rd term?
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Bill Hosting Elite Fundraising Dinners For Clinton Campaign -- Sans Hillary
By Greg Sargent | bio
A top supporter of Hillary Clinton's Presidential campaign tells Election Central that former President Bill Clinton is hosting a series of private gatherings of elite donors designed to bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars a pop for his wife's President campaign.
And here's the unusual thing about these big-ticket events: Hillary isn't at them. The main attraction is the former President -- Bill, Bill, and only Bill.
The unusual fundraising tactic reflects the bizarre circumstances that were sure to attend the candidacy of the spouse of a former President. Hillary has to be the first candidate with a spouse who's at least as potent a fundraising draw as the candidate herself -- an odd turn of events that leaves her free to campaign or raise money on her own while her spouse hosts private big-ticket events that don't require her presence as the main attraction.
According to the Hillary backer who spoke to Election Central, the former President is being offered up for private, low-key affairs attended by fewer people than the galas hosted by Hillary herself. Invitations to these gatherings aren't typically emailed out well in advance; they tend to be offered by phone on short notice when President Clinton's schedule permits, the source says.
It's well known that the former President has been sending out fundraising emails on his wife's behalf and is co-hosting a big splashy fundraising gala with his wife on March 18. But the smaller, private events for elite donors where Bill is the sole attraction seem to have passed under the radar.
According to our source, what typically happens is that Hillary's staffers call several of her top fundraisers and ask them if they can pull together a few hundred thousand dollars' worth of guests for an intimate gathering with President Clinton.
"Her gathering are meant to raise maximum dollars in front of maximum crowds," the Hillary backer tells us. "His are much smaller, but the threshold amount of money to attract him is around $300,000. He's a major fundraising vehicle for her. It's a way of attracting significant additional money at smaller events where people can have intimate conversations with the former President."
Clinton spokesman Jay Carson confirmed that the former President was conducting the events but was unable to say whether they were attracting such dollar amounts.
The top Hillary backer added: "They'll call her fundraisers and say, `If you can bring together contributions in the $300,000 vicinity, and we can find an opening in President Clinton's calendar, then we can put something together.' Or they'll say, `I've got the President on this or that date for an hour and a half -- can you raise $300,000 for it?'"
Right now the Clinton campaign is working hard to come in with a big dollar amount when the next filing comes due -- something the campaign will try to tout as another sign of her strength.
Camp Hillary's unusual fundraising technique is yet another sign that this Presidential campaign is perhaps the strangest and potentially most history-making in decades. "It's interesting," our source muses. "They have not one but two major stars that can act as the main attraction."
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Plus: new Zogby Poll on the general election:
* Giuliani 47%, Clinton 40%
* McCain 47%, Clinton 39%
* Clinton 45%, Romney 35%
* Obama 46%, Giuliani 40%
* Obama 44%, McCain 40%
* Obama 51%, Romney 29%
* Giuliani 46%, Edwards 40%
* McCain 47%, Edwards 38%
* Edwards 47%, Romney 32%
Our first Black POTUS?