Are you REALLY going to vote?

Question

After watching the DNC and now watching the closure of the RNC...I'm convinced of one thing at this point...

I'M NOT VOTING!

I'm tired of all of these speeches.....I've been listening to speeches for what? 2 years....d**n!

I have the RIGHT to vote, and am grateful for the opportunity as well as those who shed blood and sacrificed for me to have that choice. But...NOBODY has won me over AT ALL...just a bunch of brawlers exchanging verbal blows!

In the words of our dearly departed Bernie Mac...

"America?"

Somebody please enlighten me...I don't mean to be apathetic...I just don't know how to push these folks to stand by their words and stop the bashing!

What is everyone else doing? How are you dealing with it?

(and please, do not take refuge in statements like, "it's politics" or, "this is how politics works" cause I'm not buying that anymore)

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I agree with you to a point.  I can't bring myself to vote for either of these candidates.  I am going to vote though.  I will write in my first choice.

Answer 2

Well, I respect your position, but I don't share it.  

If you don't want to vote, then don't.  

But you know what they say, if you don't vote, you have no right to complain!  

Answer 3

Sounds like you have a bad case of electile dysfunction.

Answer 4

Go ahead, don't vote.  But then, don't complain about the outcome.

Look, I've been where you are but I always voted , even if sometimes I felt I was just picking the lesser of two evils.  Cutting through all the rhetoric is hard sometimes.  Turn off the tv, radio, etc. and take some time to research the records of the candidates...those are not subject to interpretation and may help you in making a decision.

Answer 5

uu goo girll!! (Y) ;*

Answer 6

yes i really............

Answer 7

Oh okay, so when something happens that you don't like, your just going to sit there and be silent? If you answered no to that, then vote. You have no right to complain about our country if you don't vote. You're given a right, and your just letting it go to waste. Good one.

Answer 8

I have to give you props for at least choosing not to vote instead of just voting on somone you half-way support. I am voting on McCain, but that's a personal choice for myself. Do whatever you want to do, I don't think its a bad thing and I hope no one else does either.

Answer 9

so you give up something hundreds of people along the way have fought to give you ..the right to vote..as a woman you should consider this even more of a privilege because we didnt always have it....no way im giving mine up..ill be there at 12..my lunch break from school...you should reconsider

Answer 10

I'm 46 years old, became registered at age 18, and have never missed an election.  So, yes, I am voting.  I understand your feelings.  There were times I, too, felt so disenfranchised that I considered not voting.  Oftentimes both candidates seem so similar I feel there would be no real difference between the two.  Not this year.  McCain and Obama are polar opposites.  

McCain does not represent my personal needs in any way, shape or form.  Conversely, Obama seems to take the words right out of my mouth.  Furthermore, I HONESTLY believe Obama will be a President who can mobilize action; he will rebuild the "Yes, We Can" attitude which made this country great.  Republicans admit Obama is a great speaker but insist being one does not make a good president.  This is true.  However, it will take a great speaker to motivate the kind of change we so desperately need.  

I am reminded of John F Kennedy's speech when he said, "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving a goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth." (1961).  Because Kennedy inspired us to do so, we succeeded in this goal in 1969, beating the Russians, who had a great lead on us when the speech was made.   Now facing us is a huge challenge of energy dependence which has lead us to war, put us in drowning debt, and ruined our economy.  Obama Barack plans to  invest $150 billion over the next ten years to enable American engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs to advance the next generation of biofuels and fuel infrastructure, accelerate the commercialization of plug-in hybrids, promote development of commercial-scale renewable energy, and begin the transition to a new digital electricity grid.

It is a huge commitment, and one desperately needed.  I believe his youthful energy will transform America.  I believe he will challenge us and see to it that we meet his challenge.  

I encourage you to move beyond your [understandable] apathy, learn all you can about both candidates, and chose the one who most closely represents your interests.  

Answer 11

I was so pro-Obama a few months ago...something happened, not quite sure.  Now I'm unsure.  I don't really care for McCain either but I am impressed with Palin.  I have a lot of soul-searching ahead of me.  It makes me not want to vote.

Answer 12

Wow, judging by your avatar, I would assume that you have ancestors who were beaten, spat on and possibly killed for the right to vote and a few silly stump speeches is keeping you away from the polls.....

I have a dream....hmmm, I guess for some of us, that message fell on deaf ears and deaf minds.

Please reconsider.

Answer 13

d**n straight im voting and its for McCain!!

Answer 14

If you don't have any feeling about how the past president (Bush) and his administration did their job, then I can see why you wouldn't want to vote today.  But if you follow the news, I think it would be hard to not have an opinion one way or the other.  And you would definitely recognize how important it is to vote the right candidate into office.  Do you think that our country would be the same if Al Gore had been president for the last 8 years?  I think the difference would be staggering.

Answer 15

My family is voting for McCain, because of three reasons: Honor, Integrity, Experience.  

Answer 16

I am voting for McCain. As the wife of a soldier and as an American I feel I must vote.  

Answer 17

You haven't been listening very clearly...read up on both candidates stances and make a decision. If you have the right to vote use it, don't waste it.

Answer 18

We are screwed either way!

Answer 19

The only issue that I can really care about is taxes.

The reason I am voting is because I don't want my taxes raised.

That might be selfish.  But I have a household to run.  

I am voting for McCain because I don't want my taxes raised.

Answer 20

You are being soooo Obama.

Real life gives you a choice and you just say "present".

Answer 21

If you don't like free and open elections, maybe China is the right country for you.

Answer 22

People are just people, nobody's perfect and you are never going find a candidate you love.  It's a fact of life.  Finding someone to lead the most powerful country in the world is impossible, this is the best we can do.  

If you really are compassionate and feel any responsibility as a citizen (wherever you live) then you have to vote.  It's easy, and maybe means little, but you gotta do it.  If you don't mean to be apathetic then don't be.  

Thanks in advance for being a good citizen.

Answer 23

It's people like u that didn't vote four years ago and look at all the h**l America is going through ur a fool if u don't!!!!

Answer 24

Yes I am voting.....McCain.

Answer 25

Vote for mcCain becuase we all know that that c**p of "just taxing the rich" is BS. Obama will raise taxes on all after he gets in and f everyone. More spending progrms for useless and worthless stuff. But his pals like Wright will get very very rich

Answer 26

I came to that same conclusion 8 years ago, but the good news is you can vote for the local things on your ballot and they will count.  If there is not an independent on my ballot I won't have a "presidential" candidate to vote for either.  So I won't vote for one.  I was taught as a child, to vote for the lesser of two evils, personally, in my opinion, there is no lesser, they are all evil.  If Pallin was on the ticket alone just running for president, I might vote for her. But I don't want McCain and I don't want Obama so there is nothing left, I may vote for Bob Barr if he is on my ticket but there is no guarentee and almost no chance of him getting elected.  There you have it

Answer 27

You know whats going to happen when you don't vote? You're not going to get what you want. Then you're going to complain and whine about it. Guess what though? You did NOTHING to try and stop whatever it is you want stopped. Pick the lesser of the two evils.

McCain.

Answer 28

I would vote for Obama/Biden but I'm not old enough.

Answer 29

I will vote since I live by a basic principle that if people do not even participate in the general elections, then they can not complain about the state of the nation. So I will always participate even if I do not like the choices.

However, I am highly concerned about voting fraud. Particularly electronic voting machines. I do not think this country is taking this problem seriously enough. Premier Election Solutions, formerly called Diebold Election Systems, has already admitted to programming errors that caused hundreds of votes to be dropped in 11 counties in Ohio. But nobody seems to really care. Instead, we get headlines about John Edward's extra-marital affair and Sarah Palin's teen daughter getting knocked up.

I kinda doubt the last two elections (which were kinda close) were actually counted correctly.

By the way, I am a software engineer (with a Bachelor's of Computer Science and currently studying for my Master's degree). From a technical standpoint, my opinion is that technology is not advanced enough for electronic voting machine. It is just too easy for the machines to become tampered with (because who knows who ends up handling these machines) and all kinds of tricks can be used to make it very hard to detect this. I trust technology for many things, but not for voting. The only way I could see it working now is if every single machine had a NSA agent or something babysitting it 24/7 from the time it was verified as secure and correct to the time voters used the machines to the time the count from these machines were transferred securely to whatever mainframe the results are collected at. Just seems kinda flimsy if you ask me.