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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
Thu Dec 26, 2013, 05:24 PM Dec 2013

What matters most to YOU in the 2016 election?

Does simply ELECTING someone president who says they're a Democrat suffice for you? Or does winning for your principles matter more?


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Electing a Democrat is ALL that matters
2 (33%)
Electing someone who cares about my principles matters more
4 (67%)
other
0 (0%)
no
0 (0%)
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Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
2. "Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone,
Thu Dec 26, 2013, 05:26 PM
Dec 2013
"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." John Quincy Adams

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
3. Beating the pukes so they cant pass any crazy ass legislation or seat any judges
Thu Dec 26, 2013, 05:27 PM
Dec 2013

I don't care if the dems get much done as long as the pukes never have any power

TheKentuckian

(25,023 posts)
6. Might be tolerable were we not in such nosedive and that too many nominal Democrats
Thu Dec 26, 2013, 05:36 PM
Dec 2013

share much of their agenda thinly disguised by different rhetoric for the same ends.

The problems are to treacherous and systemic to try to tread water, we will drown. The least risk is in ending the Reagan era, we are running out of time and the strength of the wealthy few waxes.

 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
7. Do you believe that "stopping the bad guys from doing their worst" is a sustainable political model?
Thu Dec 26, 2013, 05:36 PM
Dec 2013

If so, for how long?

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
10. At the rate the teabaggers are ripping the gopers to shreds, we might be out of the woods in 4-6 yrs
Thu Dec 26, 2013, 05:43 PM
Dec 2013

Once the gop eats itself to death, we'll get to run Progressives against Centrist Dems without worrying about a nutjob squeaking in.

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)
4. It's a continuum rather than a zero sum game
Thu Dec 26, 2013, 05:29 PM
Dec 2013

No politician will be exactly what I want but there is definitely certain things I expect from any potential candidate.

Bryant

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