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Xazy · 10-28-2010, 05:34 AM

I live in NY, and I hate my choices for governor, between Cuomo and Paladino, it is same crap versus a rabid racist bulldog. Personally I am leaning towards Cuomo since he is whom I consider the lesser of evils.

Would you vote for someone who is lesser of evils, but therefore supporting him since you did vote for the person. Or do a write in for someone who you like but has zero chance of getting elected.

ASU2003 · 10-28-2010, 09:38 AM

I almost always have to vote against people. I've even been known to vote for Republicans who were better qualified than the democrat that had no platform, no experience, and no record (OH state auditor)

Since we don't have a proportional system, rank voting, or a party picks the representatives system, it's about all I can do since I have lived in Republican controlled districts my whole life.

BadNick · 10-28-2010, 10:19 AM

I've gone both ways on this. If the "lesser of two evils" is not too horrible I've voted for that person. But I've more frequently been fed up with both main party candidates and voted for someone else.

My hope in voting for an alternative candidate that really has no chance of winning is that it might send a signal to both main parties that some people don't like either one of them. I'm not sure that message sinks given the relatively low number of other people who might also do that. I'm sort of highly fed up with politics.

dogzilla · 10-28-2010, 10:45 AM

I'll vote for specific candidates. I'll also vote against a candidate, choosing lesser of two evils in that case. If a candidate is on that ballot for multiple parties, I'll consider the specific party I cast my vote for as a way of sending a message which party principles I stand for. I've never used a write-in vote.

uncle phil · 10-28-2010, 12:44 PM

sometimes, better the evil you know rather than the evil you don't know...

Tully Mars · 10-28-2010, 01:55 PM

I've been voting the lesser of two evils for years... it's still evil or so I've been told.

inBOIL · 10-28-2010, 02:18 PM

I vote for the lesser evil when the race is close, otherwise I vote for the third party candidate. There have been a few occasions where the race was close but both main candidates were so bad that I voted third party anyway.

ItWasMe · 10-28-2010, 08:04 PM

I rarely fill out a ballot where I am not voting for the lesser of two evils at least once. If my offered choices are bad enough, I vote third party or write-in.

10-28-2010, 05:34 AM	#1 (permalink)
Xazy People in masks cannot be trusted Location: NYC	Your vote? I live in NY, and I hate my choices for governor, between Cuomo and Paladino, it is same crap versus a rabid racist bulldog. Personally I am leaning towards Cuomo since he is whom I consider the lesser of evils. Would you vote for someone who is lesser of evils, but therefore supporting him since you did vote for the person. Or do a write in for someone who you like but has zero chance of getting elected. __________________ Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.

10-28-2010, 12:44 PM	#5 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	sometimes, better the evil you know rather than the evil you don't know... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

10-28-2010, 01:55 PM	#6 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	I've been voting the lesser of two evils for years... it's still evil or so I've been told. __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

10-28-2010, 02:18 PM	#7 (permalink)
inBOIL I have eaten the slaw	I vote for the lesser evil when the race is close, otherwise I vote for the third party candidate. There have been a few occasions where the race was close but both main candidates were so bad that I voted third party anyway. __________________ And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.

10-28-2010, 08:04 PM	#8 (permalink)
ItWasMe But You'll Never Prove It. Location: under your bed	I rarely fill out a ballot where I am not voting for the lesser of two evils at least once. If my offered choices are bad enough, I vote third party or write-in. __________________ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Ok, no more truth-or-dare until somebody returns my underwear" ~ George Lopez I bake cookies just so I can lick the bowl. ~ ItWasMe

10-28-2010, 09:38 AM	#2 (permalink)
ASU2003 immoral minority Location: Back in Ohio	I almost always have to vote against people. I've even been known to vote for Republicans who were better qualified than the democrat that had no platform, no experience, and no record (OH state auditor) Since we don't have a proportional system, rank voting, or a party picks the representatives system, it's about all I can do since I have lived in Republican controlled districts my whole life.

10-28-2010, 10:19 AM	#3 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	I've gone both ways on this. If the "lesser of two evils" is not too horrible I've voted for that person. But I've more frequently been fed up with both main party candidates and voted for someone else. My hope in voting for an alternative candidate that really has no chance of winning is that it might send a signal to both main parties that some people don't like either one of them. I'm not sure that message sinks given the relatively low number of other people who might also do that. I'm sort of highly fed up with politics.

10-28-2010, 10:45 AM	#4 (permalink)
dogzilla Junkie Location: New York	I'll vote for specific candidates. I'll also vote against a candidate, choosing lesser of two evils in that case. If a candidate is on that ballot for multiple parties, I'll consider the specific party I cast my vote for as a way of sending a message which party principles I stand for. I've never used a write-in vote.