Who are you going to vote for and why?

Question

in the november elections.

why that person? what do you like and dislike about them. what do you like and dislike about the other?

im not sure who i would vote for and im wondering who knows and why?

Answer 1

I was for McCain, but when he picked Sarah Palin I went to Obama because Palin has a family to raise.

Answer 2

I'm a registered Democrat and I'm not voting this year. I don't like what Obama said about Pakistan and McCain/Palin is like the second coming of Satan and his minions. I'm hoping I can find a good job in Canada becuase this so-called good ol' USA basically sucks and the entire country is headed right down the crapper!

Answer 3

I guess you assume that only Americans come on Y!/A. Since I am Canadian, I can't vote in the elections you are referring to, but it looks like we will be facing the polls again here in Canada too.  But of course, the world won't be watching our elections the way we watch yours.  

Answer 4

I'm going to vote for Obama-Biden. I've studied the issues: affordable health care, putting Americans to work, improving education for all, removing tax breaks for hugely profitable corporations and the wealthiest 1% of Americans, and bringing our troops home from Iraq...among others. After reading about the plans and the records, intellects, and temperaments of candidates on both sides, I've decided that in this time, with the challenges facing this nation, Obama-Biden will be the better choices to return America to a path of progress toward peace and prosperity for all. Don't take my word for it, or anyone else's...do your own homework. Read information from a variety of sources, not the pundits on either side, and study the candidates own words, check into their personal conduct, then make your own decision as an educated voter. The future of the country is worth the effort.  

Answer 5

McCain

Why would anyone vote for Obama? He's for partial birth abortion and voted against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.

Answer 6

John McCain.I voted for him in 02/04, Im going to try it again.

Answer 7

McCain and Palin without a doubt.

Barack obama had my support and respect. He has lost it!

The man is a celebrity and not a politician, his European tour was ridiculous, his arrogance in believing he was already the president. His dismay at not being allowed to speak at the Brandenburg Gate because that honour is only for leaders.

I did not know he had a coke habit, he has charm and charisma but that is not enough for me. He is so arrogant he believes he is a God, he is not, he is a senator running for president and once he gets in office he will be a lost little boy and i believe he has a very sinister side.

McCain is old but there is no bullshit about him, he is a hard working, experienced politician and as for Sarah Palin. I am in awe of her.

Vote for a playboy or vote for a politician. I will vote for an experienced pair of politicians not the flashy playboy!

Answer 8

I'm voting Bob Barr. McCain is too left and Obama is FAR left. We need someone to get us back on track not try out flawed social experiments.

Answer 9

Obama, because of g*y rights and pro-choice, along with 2300 things. I am not g*y, and I am a guy. haha

McCain is gona croak, and then palin will lead our nation; scary.

Answer 10

After 7+ years of mismanagement, corruption, catering to special interests, war crimes and lies I think I will give the Democrats a shot at the executive branch. The country is so damaged (economy, international relations, education, justice, war, climate change, energy, environment, internal divisiveness etc, etc) I don't think even this grand country can take another 4 years of the same. When I heard Sarah Palin lie last night and on Monday about her reformer background and specifically that she voted against the bridge to nowhere (Alaska got over 200 million for it plus another 32 million for the approach road as per the NPR story this morning. Check out the facts in the AP link and start demanding the truth from our representatives.

America can't take another liar in the oval office.

Plus I am a vet and McCain has voted against veterans programs repeatedly and then says we are for him. Not true for my vets group.

Answer 11

McCain.  Good energy plan, tax cuts for middle class, and actual experience.

Answer 12

My vote is for McCain.  John McCain believes in walking the walk.

Here's why:

He's a fiscal and social conservative; he believes in reducing/controlling costs of health care and reforming health care so more people can have insurance; he believes in the 2nd amendment; he believes in keeping taxes low/reducing/eliminating taxes; he believes in nuclear power and clean coal fuel; he believes in our troops and supported the surge.

Above all - John McCain believes in America! He supports our veterans and our military and the healthcare needs they require.

McCain stands on principle, regardless of the political consequence. He's a true American!

McCain / Palin '08

Answer 13

I am voting for McCain and Palin.  Obama and Biden are two of the most liberal senators in Congress and have no executive leadership at all.  In my opinion, despite what Obama says, running his presidental campaign does not count as executive leadership.  I might be able to see running a Senate committee as a chairman might as a stretch count for Biden, but not really.

Palin, on the other hand, has experience as a mayor and governor.  Liberals are arguing that a city of 10,000 people doesn't count, but what they fail to say is that most cities outside of major metro areas are around there in population (no more than 50,000).  The city I grew up in in California had about 25,000 and that was in a major county, Orange County.

McCain's experiences as a Naval officer and POW allows him to understand what our troops are going through on a daily basis and allows him to make informed decisions as their Commander-in-Chief.

I will be honest, I was not looking forward to voting for McCain at the beginning of the primary process.  It was more a case of me voting against Obama than for McCain.  But after hearing Gov. Palin speak last night in her acceptance speech and hearing Fred Thompson, Mike Huckabee, and Rudy Giuliani speak about Sen. McCain, I have a new outlook on him.  Both Obama and Biden said a whole lot of nothing in their nomination acceptance speeches.  Obama's speech-making skills are great.  But if you listened to the words, or if you read a transcript, it was a whole lot of nothing.

Answer 14

McCain/Palin.

Mainly because I don't want the Socialist candidate to get into office. Also because Palin really does work for The People as demonstrated by her record managing affairs of state in Alaska.

The Socialist agenda is to cripple the US economically and militarily.  Obama promises to do both, to tear down our military advantages, halt the R&D that keeps us ahead in the arms race.  He also promises to pillage $800 billion from our pockets to hand out to corrupt nations worldwide with the excuse he is "fighting poverty" - but is not requiring that they reform their corruption that causes such poverty.  Obama was fast-tracked to his current position by some very shady characters too, and his credit card donations are largely coming from the Middle East.

I do not trust Obama to be looking out for the best interests of the USA in this world.

Answer 15

I am torn right now. I mean look at it this way. Ok, McCain has military experience and Barack doesn't, right? McCain has more political experience, right? McCain has been a prisoner of war, so that scares me, because most POWs have lasting mental issues and most have flashbacks to that time, and a majority suffer from post traumatic stresss syndrome, so he could go ballistic someday if provoked by another country. Barack seems pretty cool, calm, and collected, but does he have the strength to lead our country? Does McCain? I don't really know either way. Look at both of their Vice Presidential choices. McCain picks an inexperienced person to be his next in command. What happens if he kills over while in office, she is gonna lead our country with what real experience? Barack has picked a more experienced partner. He is more experienced than Barack. I am not entirely sure who to really go with , but I am leaning towards Barack. He is very young compared to McCain, and if something happens to him while in office, I feel more confident with Biden becoming president than McCain's choice for VP. I have nothing against the lady, she is young, and smart, but lets face it, if she can't control her own daughter from becoming a teenage non-wed mother, how will she help our country? I don't know, we will see over the next few months...Barack has a lot of great ideas, and is great with a lot of young people, and young people need to get out and vote. My theory is if you don't vote, you don't have a right to ***** and complain when they s***w up our country.

Answer 16

Obama-Biden 2008.

1) Because Barack Obama is not going to raise taxes on couples who make less than $250,000 a year. Low and middle income Americans cannot afford to pay more taxes, we just cannot (unless you want us to starve or be completely homeless).

2) Obama wants to "HELP" Americans, he wants to help re-build the image others have of our country and of the Presidency.

3) He believes that no matter what your family make-up (single-parent, grandparents as fill-in's parents for missing father's/mothers, or those who have step-parents, or those who adopted children), that you deserve a better President, who "knows" what you have been going through, the struggles you face (increasing debt, college loans, mortgage debt or can't get a mortgage, inadequate school systems, fewer US jobs, fewer benefits, etc).  Obama wants to "help" all of us get ahead not stay sunk in this quagmire of the Bush administration.

4) Biden's senate record "PROVES" that he cares more about middle income American's than McCain/Palin.  *visit the website below are see just where he stood on the issues verses McCain.  McCain is NOT for us. he is against us.

5) McCain is for big oil, and wants to drill, drill, drill...  well.. what about our environment,  All that drilling, and logging to clear the land for the pipelines is only going to damage our environment.  Drilling today will not result in useful fuel until 10 years from now (not now when we need it).  Even when drilling, scientists say that EVEN if the drilling is put into place, the output will only give us fule for 16 Months (not years).  Drilling is NOT the solution.

6) Sarah Palin is also for big oil and gas.  She has voted against having the Polar bear on the endangered species list because doing so would have prevented the pipelines from being built to transfer gas from Alaska to Canada (what do we care about Canada getting Gas??)

7) Palin likes to say she said "thanks but no thanks" to Congress when offered the money for the Bridge to no-where, when in reality a) she voted for it when running for govenor, and 2) she actually DID take the money that congress gave her.  She DID NOT give it back for use on more worthy projects in the lower 48 states.

8) Biden put forth a bill which was signed into law to protect battered women. He continues to fight to keep funding available for those women who need help (after a tragic beating) and have no where else to turn for themselves or their children.

9) Obama is for protecting our benefits and health-care.

    McCain wants to give corporations a free pass so that they no longer have to pay for their employee's health-care benefits. He want to instead give us now a 'tax incentive' (he used to at say a $5K tax "Deduction' but has changed his message in the past 2 weeks).  I'm sorry, but a tax "incentive' isn't going to cover it.

10) Obama wants to reduce the national debt.

    IMPORTANT: Under George Bush, "the Bureau of Public Debt tells us the National Debt clocks in at a staggering: $8,835,268,597,181.95

That's $8.8 trillion – an increase of $3.1 trillion dollars since January 20, 2001. And that amounts to a jump of 54% during Mr. Bush's watch.

11) Barack Obama wants to "increase" the number of US jobs, and not just any jobs, higher paying jobs.  McCain runs on a platform of continued offshore-ing of high waged US jobs, and then says he will "re-train" us to do other jobs.  First, if I went to college so that I could get my current job, why would I want to give that job up so that I could be "re-trained" to work a lower-waged service job at a fast-food place.  I kinda like the job I have & like my employee benefits.

12) One of the most important things is that Barack Obama wants to bring to the country is a vastly improved economy.  He and Biden have agreed this is the #1 issue for Americans, and he must & will do whatever it takes to change FOR THE BETTER our economy and country by keeping US jobs here, provide incentives to business's who create new and keep existing jobs IN THIS COUNTRY.

Obama wants to bring a bright and successful future to the United States of America and ALL of her citizens.

The above are not all of my reasons for voting for Obama-Biden 2008, but just some of the more important ones.