Quote:So you have already made your choice well before election time comes up.  That's the problem on both sides.  Far too many people will just vote a straight ticket regardless.  For me personally, as a conservative I already have a couple of democrats in mind that I might possibly vote for based on past performance.  However, nothing is set in stone until I see the opposing candidates and find out about them.

 

To be fair, he did say "If a republican came out against the billionaire class  and focused on small business"  he'd go back to the Republican Party.

 

My first few times I voted along party lines.  Republican for everything.  I think it was in part because of how I was raised to believe.  And I think it was in part because republicans and democrats have turned it into "Us vs Them".  And until our politicians stop playing the us vs them game, I think most people will continue to play the same game.  


Personally I tend to vote third party to protest the two party system--though if certain candidates win the primaries I'll vote against them.  Maybe I'm too much of a cynic, but there's probably not many politicians whom I'd feel like actually voting for -- and I think I could count them on my left hand.

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