Republicans love to declare themselves to their party

[tavernier]

front runners.

I'm curious: how many of us will vote for whoever our party chooses to be our presidential candidate?

[Xipe Totec]

1. Personally, and I mean that literally, me: I don't give a toss about the presidential race.

But I do care about the congressional races, the state races, the governor's races, and the state legislature races.

because those are the races that will determine our destiny in the next decade.

Those are the races that matter, and while were fret about who's going to be president, the races that determine our future are proceeding un-noticed.

[elleng]

2. You're right about that.

[tavernier]

3. I wish we all felt that way.

Much more important! Sadly, it's much more the race for Miss America in the White House. 😥However, it does determine who will be the judges. 😪

[lovemydog]

8. You are absolutely right about that.

I find the presidential races entertaining.

But the Congressional, state, governors and state legislature races will determine our destiny.

[Art_from_Ark]

11. So it wouldn't have made any difference whether Bush

or Gore had been in the White House in 2001-09?

It wouldn't have mattered whether Reagan or Carter had won in 1980?

It wouldn't have mattered whether Nixon or Bobby Kennedy had won in 1968?

Or whether FDR or Hoover had won in 1932?

[Xipe Totec]

12. Would it have made any difference if Gore won

and the republicans had a majority in the house and super majority in the senate?

And under those circumstances would it have mattered if Carter had won in 1980?

Etc. etc,. etc...

It is utterly absurd to speculate about what would have happened if one specific thing happened differently but everything else happened exactly the same. It doesn't work that way.

[Art_from_Ark]

13. If Gore had won,

that is, if the election hadn't been stolen from him, there wouldn't have been two Texas oilmen in the top two positions making up lies to attack an oil-rich country.

If Carter had won in 1980, he wouldn't have straddled us with the lasting specter of voodoo economics, even if he had lost the Senate (the House remained ostensibly Democratic, even with Reagan's landslide), and he would have kept us on the path to alternative energy development.

If Kennedy had won in 1968, we would have been out of Vietnam that much sooner.

If Hoover had won in 1932, we wouldn't have had the New Deal.

[Agnosticsherbet]

4. In the general election, I will vote for the best candidate on the ballot.

I feel confident that could never be a Republucan.

[tavernier]

5. At least not this bunch.

And I do fear that many Dems might sit out the election unless they have the perfect candidate. I guess my answer to them would be ... Scalia? Thomas? Etc.

[Agnosticsherbet]

6. The people who choose not to vote don't care.

And deserve what ever Republicans do if they should win.

I choose to vote and try to make things a little better.

[No Vested Interest]

7. I will vote for the nominee of the Democratic Party for President of the US.

I will also for Democrats for offices down ballot.

Should a Democrat running for public office be so vile or corrupt or stupid that I can not in good conscience vote for him/her, I will leave that office blank on my ballot.

[lovemydog]

9. Yes, and I'll vote for democrats down ticket too.

[YabaDabaNoDinoNo]

10. I will only vote for candidates that reflect my values never republican and no

more corporate, conservative, or moderate Dems either.