I'm intrigued by what people's answer to this question would be. It sometimes occurs that for a local office there is only one candidate. Obviously they win. But I'm curious as to how the members of this forum would vote.
-- Edited by arbilad at 20:37, 2006-09-05
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
It is my opinion that in a situation like you describe the real work starts after the vote. I would have to work with them once they are in office to try and get them to represent me. If I can get someone from the opposite party to represent me, then I may have accomplished more than if I voted a person from my party into the office.
I'd vote for him, though I'm not sure why--to fill in all the blanks, I suppose. It's certainly possible that a candidate from the other party would have good potential. I'm not one for write-ins, unless maybe there was a wide-spread campaign for someone in particular. Otherwise, everyone might write in someone different.
Probably the best solution is to work with them after the election to make your views know and see if you can get him to represent you as much as possible.
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"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart." (Blaise Pascal 1623-1662)
And if the rascal didn't represent me after he was in office, I'd work like heck to make sure come the next election, there would be someone on the ballot who would represent me!
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"Look back on our struggle for freedom, trace our present day's strength to its source, and you'll find that man's pathway to glory is strewn with the bones of a horse."
- Anonymous
I answered that I would vote for him, but a lot depends on the issue involved. For instance, I am more likely to vote for the pro-life, aggressive-War-on-Islamofascism, enforce-the-border, and lower-tax candidate. If the Democrat in a race was that person, as opposed to the Republican, I would vote for the Democrat.
But since the odds of that are about as good as the odds of me winning the Miss America pageant, this remains a hypothetical....
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I'm not voting for Ron Paul because it's not expressly prescribed in the Constitution.
Just as I find myself in the voting booth not knowing what to do in this scenario, I do not know how to answer this poll. Sometimes, if the position is just a local thing and not that big a deal, I'll vote. If it is for a judgeship or something like that, I'll withhold my vote and just abstain.
I think in the cases of where it is like a judge, and they are running unopposed, it should not be an automatic I win by default, regardless of if I get 10 votes or 10,000. The ballot should have the option to vote No on the candidate... kind of a "throw the bum out of office... and let the office remain empty for a while..."
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
