Satisfactions and Regrets - Your voting history

[Stinky The Clown]

What vote (for any office) did you cast that gave you the most satisfaction; that you still feel really good for having cast?

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What vote (for any office) did you cast that you continue to regret, maybe even regret more as time goes by?

[WeDidIt]

1. Easy

1) Barack Obama. voted for him four times, Senate Primary, Senate GE, Presidential Primary, Presidential GE. I am proud and immensely satisfied with each.

2) Rod Blagojevich. Though I don't regret the vote (it was strategic as I wanted a Dem appointing Obama's replacement), it gives me little satisfaction.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Je ne regrette rien!

Even though some I've helped vote into office have disappointed me, I've always felt that I made the best decision. In every election, I've voted consistently for the Democrat. Call me a partisan hack, but I'll vote for a DLCer or blue dog if that's my only option to keep a repug out of office. I'll try to vote down conservative Democrats in the primary, but in the end, I have to trust that their ideology is closer in keeping with my own than any repug.

In retrospect, I'm most proud of the two votes I cast for Jimmy Carter. It was a source of pride, knowing I had voted against St. Ronnie & everything ushered in during that dark era.

[salguine]

3. I sure regret voting for Obama, that's for damn sure. I'll never make that mistake again.

[geckosfeet]

4. Can't say I truly regret any of the votes (that I can recall).

Most satisfied with Clinton. I would say Obama but it is early on and I think he needs more time to get things done. Based on the way he is going, and if he gets another term, I would say Obama would be about tied with Clinton in the satisfaction index.

[cali]

5. this may sound weird but I think the vote(s) that gave me the most pleasure were for a repub

I really liked voting for Jim Jeffords. He was just such a decent humble guy and he really cared about his constituents. He had no aspirations for power. He was as rumpled and down home as Bernie.

Here's a reminder about what he stood for:

The path to defection was punctuated by rifts — some quiet, some very public. In 1981, Jeffords was the sole Republican in the House of Representatives to vote against President Reagan�s tax-cut proposal. Ten years later, when Clarence Thomas was nominated for the Supreme Court, Senator Jeffords voted against the appointment. In 1994, when the national Republican party began its most recent list to the right, Senator Jeffords took stock and decided that despite his disagreements with the tenor of the Gingrich revolution, he would stay on as a Republican. When the Senate voted against impeaching President Clinton, Jeffords� was among the majority vote. Again and again, the Vermont Senator voted against the party line: On abortion, on gay rights, on defense spending, on conservation issues — and especially on education.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,127919,00.html#ixzz0ZfxmqqVA

It's not very often, in my experience, that you can justly label a politician a sweetheart; Jim really is one.

[Le Taz Hot]

6. I've never regretted voting

(and working and donating to) Barbara Boxer, a TRUE Democrat. Regrets: Ever voting for Feinstein (I didn't last time) and Obama (the last one he's ever going to get from me).

[Blue_Tires]

7. here come the flames:

Voting for Nader in 2000 gave me a lot of (temporary) satisfaction...Before this becomes a 400-post napalm fest, let me add that I was living in the electorally insignificant state of Kansas at the time, which has maybe THREE blue counties in the entire state, where no candidate visited, and where Bush won by 30+ points...The other feel-good insignificant vote was for Kucinich in the '08 primaries (first time I ever voted in a primary)...

Another feel-good REAL vote was for Jim Webb against George Allen in '06 -- Very, very glad to see Allen go...

My ONE major regret? ugh...Zell Miller for senate in '98...But then again I couldn't NOT vote democratic in a highly contested race...

[Blue_In_AK]

21. Blue_Tires, I voted for Nader, too,

with no regrets. Like Kansas, Alaska was NEVER going to elect Al Gore, so I felt safe in voting my conscience.

[rampart]

22. nader, with no regrets

louisiana electoral votes will be going repub for the rest of my lifetime. the statement is important.

[Iggo]

8. Barack Obama for President; Ronald Reagan for President. (n/t)

[Brickbat]

9. I don't regret any votes, and the ones with most satisfaction were for Paul Wellstone.

[Iggo]

12. I don't regret voting.

I regret voting for the wrong guy.

[G_j]

10. not many, but make sure to vote in local elections

I've always voted in national elections and Dem primaries.
Most of the wins I've felt good about, were in local elections.

[closeupready]

11. I enjoy voting for Nydia Velazquez - she is a traditional liberal, 100%.

And you can actually confirm that by looking at her voting record.

Oh, this is going to get my pilloried, but I voted for GWB in 2000 - that is without question the biggest regret I have had.

[The_Commonist]

14. She's my congresswoman too.

Luckily, I've never voted for anyone names Bush...

[Kind of Blue]

13. I'm deeply satisfied with my history, even for former

Republican Rep. Connie Morella several times in Maryland - who was really a Dem in Repub clothing. I mean that much became clear when she voted against naming National Airport, Reagan National :rofl: Sure wish there were more like her these days instead of the other way around.

[Stinky The Clown]

16. I remember Connie Morella ..... she was a reasonably good moderate Democrat as I recall ......

.... other than that R behind her name

:hi:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

15. Best: Dr. Spock 1968 - Regret: Bill Clinton, both times.

[otohara]

17. Ben Nightmare Campbell - regret

Howard Dean state delegate most satisfaction!

[whatchamacallit]

18. I mostly regret the way our primary process picks my democrats for me (n/t)

[SemiCharmedQuark]

19. I regret voting for Evan Bayh--the suckiest suck that ever sucked.

It was Indiana though. He was running against a Republican and a Libertarian.

[Blue_In_AK]

20. My best votes were

for Diane Benson for U.S. House in 2006 and 2008. I like her so much that I wrote her in last year after she lost in the primary to Ethan Berkowitz, who seems like a DLC'er to me.

The one I regret the most was not voting at all in 1968. I was so angered by the Chicago convention that I boycotted the election. I'll never do that again.