Dumb hypothetical question: How much $ would it take you to vote for Bush?

[skipos]

Lets say it is 2008, the constitution has been altered so Bush can run for a third term, voting is Diebold-less and 100% secure, you like the dem nominee, and polls indicate the election is going to be extremely close in your state, and your state may decide the election.

If someone offered to pay you to vote for Bush, what is the LEAST amount it would take? And remember, you don't know if your vote will effect the outome of the election.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. ONE MEEEELYUN DOLLARS!

[Sinti]

2. There is no amount of money that would be sufficient n/t

[Ian David]

3. I'd do it for $8 Trillion

And use it to pay-off the national debt.

[NewJeffCT]

16. it would come back next year

Bush would just use it as an excuse for more tax cuts for millionaires.

[BlooInBloo]

4. Idiotic question. Another case of "Skinner's Theorem"...

... Which says something like "some poll questions are so morally tilted against one answer, that the results of the poll cannot be taken as indicative of anything".

[warrens]

5. About $100 million would get me into the income class

Where Repuke policies would be good for me. I still couldn't vote for the fucker, though.

[windlight]

12. I agree

And was thinking the same thing as i read the Poll...:)

[BurtWorm]

6. It would take all the money invested in the Iraq war and in tax cuts

to be reinvested in actually productive programs. (And even then I would probably vote for someone else and just say I voted for Bushboy.)

[Warpy]

7. I just spent 2 1/2 years living on $800/month

when my mortgage took the first $560. I was looking at the necessity of selling my house and nearly everything I own and moving into a studio apartment just to survive on that amount.

And no amount of money would have persuaded me to vote for that thing. The same goes for antichoice Democrats. Can't do it, won't do it.

[DrGonzoLives]

8. $450 million

If I'm going to sell out, I'm going to do it in style.

And that money better damn well be tax free.

[tech3149]

9. right now it would be about $10 trillion

but that figure is rising exponentially.

[MrsT]

10. Lets face it, money rules the world

I wouldn't be able to live with myself for $1,000,000, but if I got enough money to fund an incredible presidential candidate, I would do it. What would that be, $100 million?

[skipos]

11. welcome to du!

:hi:

[newyawker99]

15. Hi MrsT!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Love Bug]

13. My vote is not for sale!

If I won't sell my vote for a tax cut, why would I sell it for cash? Hell, no, some things should be above money. My vote is one of them.

[Clarkansas]

14. I have to admit I'd probably take a cool mil

I don't think I could pass up that kind of financial security, and my family has some serious financial problems right now.

[uncle ray]

17. let the country spiral further down the shitter

fuck the rest of em, i got my million dollars!

:eyes:

[Clarkansas]

19. I am not the only one who voted for a million

but at least I admit that I'd consider it. Only because my family is pretty financially screwed right now.

[YankeyMCC]

18. Can't pay me enough to help

send people to die for an unjust war.

[SmokingJacket]

20. No amount would be worth being responsible for the downfall

of civilization.

[laruemtt]

21. even 3 brazillians would't be enough ;=)

[VOX]

22. VERY bad karma to take the blood-and-oil soaked money...

Seriously, I wouldn't do it. :scared:

[DireStrike]

23. Hah... 1 million? I can't even retire on that today. Get lost, cheapskate!

I'd sell, eventually. It would have to be enough money that I could sway public opinion with the merest flexing of my fiscal pinky, and still have enough left over to personally finance all the programs that would be cut by asshole. Basically, enough money to make the winner of the presidency irrelevant.

[Nightflurry]

24. Easy, however much money it would take to ..

Buy him out of office and into the Hague.

[savemefromdumbya]

25. never

nein, non, lo

[Katherine Brengle]

26. Assuming that having over a billion dollars could erase my morals...

then that would do it for me--hell, I'd get a tax cut!

[Rocknrule]

27. Only for enough money to buy back all the votes * stole