Which Republican candidate would you not vote for?

arbilad · Head Chef

Which Republican candidate would you not vote for?

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

I said Brownback cuz it reminds me of Brokeback Mountain.

lundbaek · Profuse Pontificator

If Ron Paul is not the Republican candidate, I expect to vote for the Constitution Party candidate.

I'm surprised at the voting here. I guess Ron Paul has more support here that I thought.

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

I had occasion the last week or so to drive that section of road between Saratoga Springs and Lehi and I saw Ron Paul in just about every house!

The gal that taught me to bottle tomatoes last week has a Ron Paul sign, too.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

I picked Tancredo... though I believe Brownback's campaign has engaged in some pretty low antimormon crap...

Euphrasie · Senior Bucketkeeper

A bunch of Ron Paul signs cropped up around my town this week too. I felt surrounded.

I can't answer this question, really. It depends who my other choice is. I'd probably vote for any of them if my other choice were Hillary.

-- Edited by Euphrasie at 19:28, 2007-10-06

Poncho29 · Senior Bucketkeeper

I don't know enough about most of them to make an informed decision. But, ditto to what Euphrasie said.

mirkwood · Senior Bucketkeeper

lundbaek wrote:

If Ron Paul is not the Republican candidate, I expect to vote for the Constitution Party candidate.

Me too, since it will be Ron Paul.

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

Well, I think there may be something skewed in the voting here... before I voted (with 33 votes in place), it said 9.1% for Ron Paul and a couple of other candidates. I voted my selection for whom I would never vote for, and he shot up to 11.8%... but it also appeared the other two candidates who were at 9.1%. So, with 34 votes in place, and 10 candidates / potential candidates (did Keyes officially join or something) listed, 11.8% equals 4.018 votes cast.

Or maybe I just saw it wrong and those that were 9.1% before went down to 8.8%

Organist · Senior Member

I don't think I could vote for someone like Rudi, who left his wife for another woman. Those poor choices in personal life mean similarly poor choices for the USA and the world. I fear if he is elected.

Mahonri · Senior Bucketkeeper

I couldn't vote for Rudi, Thompson or McCain. I vote 3rd party or not vote if any of them won the nominaton.

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

Right now it appears that the man who is not even a candidate is the least likely to not be voted for.

I don't know if that means no one really cares enough about his comments to even consider not voting for him, or that in some sort of sick, twisted reverse psychologic scientific poll it means he is the most likely candidate to win the Republican nomination...

This may require a trip to the Kwik-E-Mart home office for clarification...

arbilad · Head Chef

Cat Herder wrote:

Right now it appears that the man who is not even a candidate is the least likely to not be voted for.

I don't know if that means no one really cares enough about his comments to even consider not voting for him, or that in some sort of sick, twisted reverse psychologic scientific poll it means he is the most likely candidate to win the Republican nomination...

This may require a trip to the Kwik-E-Mart home office for clarification...

Cat, I took this list of candidates from the Wikipedia list of candidates who have filed papers with the federal elections commission and who are running national campaigns. It is entirely possible that they got their facts wrong, but I did try to make the list up of only official candidates.

BTW, from the comments in this thread it seems that some people are unaware that you can vote for multiple candidates in this poll. You don't have to choose just one candidate that you won't vote for.

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

Well, darn, I want my vote back

LoudmouthMormon · Profuse Pontificator

If the poll is to be realistic, it needs different phrasing.

"Assuming the Democrats run Hillary, which of these would you not vote for if they won the Republican nomination?"

Anyone wanna change their answer?

LM

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

arbilad wrote:

BTW, from the comments in this thread it seems that some people are unaware that you can vote for multiple candidates in this poll. You don't have to choose just one candidate that you won't vote for.

Well, that would explain the odd fractional percentages... some one person (who knew that one could vote for more than one selection) {pointing finger at an unknown phantom

} must have voted for more than one person while the rest of us defaulted to the best matching answer to the question.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

I'd rather vote for McCain than Paul.

arbilad · Head Chef

Cat Herder wrote:

arbilad wrote:

BTW, from the comments in this thread it seems that some people are unaware that you can vote for multiple candidates in this poll. You don't have to choose just one candidate that you won't vote for.

Well, that would explain the odd fractional percentages... some one person (who knew that one could vote for more than one selection) {pointing finger at an unknown phantom } must have voted for more than one person while the rest of us defaulted to the best matching answer to the question.

It's not that hard to tell. This poll uses checkboxes, which aren't exclusive. That means that you can select multiple selections. Radio buttons, which most polls on this board use, are exclusive. You can only select one. Since it's a very common way of doing things, I didn't feel the need to elaborate.

arbilad · Head Chef

LoudmouthMormon wrote:

If the poll is to be realistic, it needs different phrasing.

"Assuming the Democrats run Hillary, which of these would you not vote for if they won the Republican nomination?"

Anyone wanna change their answer?

LM

Actually, since that was not what I was asking, it would be innacurate to change the question that way. That would be an interesting question for you to ask in your own poll, though.

hiccups · Future Queen in Zion

arbilad wrote:

It's not that hard to tell. This poll uses checkboxes, which aren't exclusive. That means that you can select multiple selections. Radio buttons, which most polls on this board use, are exclusive. You can only select one. Since it's a very common way of doing things, I didn't feel the need to elaborate.

Drat. Another real life IQ test failed. bleh

I'm going to have to work on that.

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

This is clearly a hanging chat (or is it chad? wouldn't want to proposing hanging him if it is the other word...

) issue, as the ballot was unclear and was written in an unclear fashion.

I think there must have been some nefarious plot afoot to disenfranchise us of the right to vote the way we would have had there been clear instructions at the polling place...

Euphrasie · Senior Bucketkeeper

I thought you lived in Michigan. Was it a recent move?

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

Michigan politics = function{union power (centered in Detroit + Pontiac + Flint) + Democrat power base (centered in Detroit + Pontiac + Flint) * (liberal/socialist leaning*foreign born governor )}

Translated, this means that unfortunately, Republicans and conservatives have accomplished very little in the state due to the current administration and the long term entrenched democrat / union power structure, despite the bulk of the state being conservative.

The only similarity to Michigan voting and this thread is that Arbi didn't word the ballot in this vote with the proper instructions that we could choose more than one, hence we wuz disenfranchise-ified by only choosing ONE candidate we would never vote for...

Euphrasie · Senior Bucketkeeper

Okay. I just thought you sounded suspiciously like someone from Florida for a second there...

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

sour grapes indeed... do I win a prize Arbi???

TitusTodd · Senior Member

I probably do not have to tell how I voted. I would never vote for Ron Paul.

-- Edited by TitusTodd at 10:47, 2007-10-09

Randy · Senior Member

TitusTodd wrote:

I probably do not have to tell how I voted. I would never vote for Ron Paul.

Well I would never vote for Ron Paul for president, but I'd certainly vote for him if the question were "Which Republican candidate would you not vote for?"

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

My very most liberal (flaming Hillary fans) relatives who hate our family for being conservative really want Ron Paul to win... --Ray

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

Are you serious?

The Taliban wants Hilary to win.

hiddentreasuredotws · Senior Member

YES TO RON PAUL

NO to Julie Annie!