Talked to an 80-something neighbor who said he would always vote for a Democrat over a Repub,

[Binkie The Clown]

but if Bernie doesn't get the nomination he'll write-in his favorite Democrat, FDR.

[rusty quoin]

1. FDR is my fav too. But I won't stay at home if Hillary is our choice.

[revbones]

2. Some people just can't bring themselves to vote for her.

They see her as too corrupt.

[rusty quoin]

4. I am practical and think supreme court

[revbones]

6. You may consider it practical

but that's your reason for your vote. Many are tired of the lesser of two evils. Many see Hillary as nearly the same if not worse than the republican candidates.

My father-in-law is a staunch republican. He might vote for Bernie if Kasich doesn't make it. He would do absolutely anything to avoid Hillary, even vote for Trump.

There is always the likelihood of a SC nomination. It's always the most important election in our lives. People wear out when that's all the reason you give them. They need inspiration. Bernie offers that. It's unfortunate that he stated so late and so far behind. He's come from 3% in the polls to nearly a tie in many cases. Clinton has flatlined and if anything is losing support. She's not inspiring.

[rusty quoin]

7. I hope it is Bernie

It is nice that the Bernie group did not kick me out. I am banned from the Hillary group for no good reason.

I am glad to see that Bernie Sanders group is reasonable, like it should.

[revbones]

8. Completely different crowd.

It takes a different sort to support Hillary anyway...

Most of us are banned from there too. Mine was for questioning something someone said. I'm number #606 on their banned list.

[Downwinder]

11. If Hillary is the nominee,

she will run to the right of Trump.

[dana_b]

14. and if she does, she might get some of those

Repubs who are more conservative and not prone to crazy antics that Trump attracts (tea party people).

Scary.

[Divernan]

13. Job One for HRC's 1%/corporate donors is keeping Citizens United the law of the land

They don't give a shit about "soft" social issues, like gay rights or abortion or the death penalty, because those don't impact their bottom lines/profitability/redistribution of wealth to the top. The most important "quid"/political favor for their "quos"/$$$ to Hillary (whether to her as personal speaking fees, or "donations" to the Clinton Foundation, or campaign payments to her PACs) is that she appoint business/corporate/Wall Street friendly judges to the Supreme Court in particular, and the federal district and circuit courts in general.

[eridani]

10. The reality is that it only matters if you are in a purple state

Very red or very blue--the few serious issue junkies who will vote third party or write someone in aren't gong to affect the outcome.

[bvf]

9. I won't stay at home, either. n/t

[dana_b]

15. +1

I always vote, even if I don't like the candidates. There are always issues to vote on.

[hollysmom]

3. well, I am a 70 something and maybe it has to do with the respect for history

I didn't realize it but my mother talked to me more than anyone else in the family and she would tell me stories of the depression when she was a child, so I pretty much have great appreciation for social security, My sister would be playing with her friends, and I would sit by my mother while she sewed or did other work and she would just tell tell me stories. I would listen and she would talk. for some reason no one else in the family knows these stories of starving people and what people would do for money. why my grandmother died so young (starved herself to feed her family), about how people would kill babies they could not feed because there was no birth control or abortion. remember. Even about eating the vegetables they could get raw in the summer because cooking cost coal.

maybe the older people who vote republican never heard those stories.

[rusty quoin]

5. They choose to forget.

[Divernan]

12. Thank you for sharing your mother's memories.

We all need to be aware of what desperate poverty is like, especially in these times of hundreds of thousands people who have left everything behind and are desperately trying to save themselves and their families through fleeing their own countries.

[hollysmom]

16. oh, there were so many stories, some of them about families staying close to survive which is

probably why I am obsessed with keeping in touch with my family.
I never did understand how she said she got used to eating raw potatoes and onions as a kid. There was a whole bunch of child labor things,where she dropped out of school at 10 to work in a laundry and her sisters got jobs too, and the stories always ended happy with the family working together. (and the unions coming in the 30's)

[TexasBushwhacker]

17. My 87 year old aunt remembers

water on her cornflakes.