Been Voting D Since 1972. I'll Vote For Whoever The Ds Nominate in 2016

[stopbush]

That's the bottom line.

We have an excellent trio of candidates for president. I can comfortably and enthusiastically vote for the one who gets the nomination.

I've been voting for over 40 years, and while there have been D candidates that I've been less than crazy about, I will never vote for a Republican/Conservative, either by pulling the lever or by staying home and not voting at all. And believe me, Dems staying home is all it takes for somebody 10 times worse than W to win the WH.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. I've been voting since 1966. I usually vote for the Democrats.

"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." Thomas Jefferson

[Laffy Kat]

3. ^Yes.^ nt

[Martin Eden]

4. I'll vote for the candidate who best reflects my views, unless my home state (Illinois) is in play

I acknowledge the imperative of keeping a Rethug out of the White House.

I'm all for getting rid of the Electoral College and going to a nationwide popular vote with ranked choice to enable selecting a 3rd party candidate as your first choice and the not-GOP candidate 2nd. If we had this in 2000, Nader wouldn't have made a difference in Florida and Gore would have been president.

[jeff47]

5. Well, one of our three has no chance of winning my state.

And the other two have a slim chance of winning my state.

So I'll have the "luxury" of a meaningless vote for the top of the ticket, and downticket will be packed with third-way-style candidates who are doing their damndest to lose again.

Woo-hoo. Feel the excitement.