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[Nadaka]

When I lived in Mississippi I voted for Ralph Nader. In Florida? not so much.

[SealyStar]

Yep, Colin Powell's pretty much always been that sort of guy. I mean, you can tell he's a good guy by the sheer perfect storm of candidates he'd be, yet he doesn't want to run. I spose if stuff got bad enough, he'd be a pretty good candidate for a Republican realignment.

Yeah, if the Republicans finally began recentralizing after drifting right since 1980, he might be a good candidate for the job.

[mainiac]

I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone:

If you don't live in a swing state, you accomplish far more by voting for a third party candidate than by voting for Obama or Romney. For once, let the electoral college work in your favour, and help a third party candidate inch a wee bit closer to the point where someone might bother talking about them.

By voting for Romney or Obama, you're essentially just throwing away your vote!

I would have agreed a month ago but I'm worried that Obama might lose the popular vote and give republicans new fuels for their whine fests.  I don't want that so I'm voting Obama.

[kaijyuu]

Couldn't that be a good thing? We might get bipartisan support for abolishing the electoral college if both sides get burned by it in recent memory.

[SealyStar]

Couldn't that be a good thing? We might get bipartisan support for abolishing the electoral college if both sides get burned by it in recent memory.

Yeah. The Dems got trashed in 2000, and if the Republicans also suffered, it would provide a bipartisan impetus to trash the ridiculous system.

[10ebbor10]

Couldn't that be a good thing? We might get bipartisan support for abolishing the electoral college if both sides get burned by it in recent memory.

But then my plan to drug them all, and elect a monkey for president will be useless.

[Karnewarrior]

The monkey lost the popular vote but Florida voted it in because it was smarter than the majority of people in the state.

I'm voting Obama because I'm afraid all this election Fraud may actually start making Romney a viable candidate.



In other news, this is the first time I've seen 4chan actually think seriously about voting Obama. I'm surprised, given that this is a board where at least one thread is dedicated entirely to racist slurs against black people.

I'm not sure how to feel about this.

[MonkeyHead]

George Dubya has already had his 2 terms though. Oh, you mean a different monkey.

[mainiac]

Couldn't that be a good thing? We might get bipartisan support for abolishing the electoral college if both sides get burned by it in recent memory.

Because angry conservatives leap to bipartisan aproaches

[Darvi]

But I thought only Sith had black-white thinking?

[Caz]

Best way to vote in America is to buy a one-way ticket to Japan.

[Mutagen]

But I thought only Sith had black-white thinking?

Absolutism is absolutely wrong! Nothing is black and white, everything is gray, including the black and white that the gray is comprised of! 

[PTTG??]

I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone:

If you don't live in a swing state, you accomplish far more by voting for a third party candidate than by voting for Obama or Romney. For once, let the electoral college work in your favour, and help a third party candidate inch a wee bit closer to the point where someone might bother talking about them.

By voting for Romney or Obama, you're essentially just throwing away your vote!

I would have agreed a month ago but I'm worried that Obama might lose the popular vote and give republicans new fuels for their whine fests.  I don't want that so I'm voting Obama.

I'm in California and I've already cast my vote for Jill Stein. Have a little courage. Realize that frankly Romney isn't going to achieve anything anyway, since the congress will still be mired in bickering.

[Mephansteras]

Had an interesting thought today:

The President has little direct control over Laws, since that's congress' responsibility. Sure, he has Veto power, but that only goes so far. And yet, almost everything Presidential candidates talk about doing has to do with new Laws or Changing Laws.

Why don't they talk about all of the changes that they CAN do within the Executive Branch? All those Federal agencies that actually enforce laws and generally make a mess of things are directly under the control of the President.

I want to see a Presidential Candidate who promises to do things like curtain wasteful spending and inefficiencies within those agencies. Sure, some of the projects are mandated by law. But there must be a lot that could be done that wouldn't require any cooperation with Congress.

Am I just missing something?

[Lord Shonus]

To put it simply, most people have no idea what powers the President actually has. Pushing for laws that the target demographic wants, and vetoing ones it doesn't want, is a highly visible form of leadership that people easily understand. Trying to get into the minutiae of the workings of the DoD or CIA would confuse people, and might even make them believe that he was promising to exceed his authority. In short, such a promise would only appeal to the relative handful of people who have an understanding of the inner workings of government departments, while at the same time alienating those who do not.