Who are you voting for for president? and why? im so uncertain who to vote for help me decide.?

Question

Who are you voting for for president? and why? im so uncertain who to vote for help me decide.?

Answer 1

No one can decide for you. You have to look at how the candidates stand on the issues. Then pick the one the believes most like you do. All the advertisements don't mean a thing, just look at what it is the candidates stand for and make an informed decision.

I will be voting for McCain/Palin. Not because someone helped me decide. Not even because I agree with McCain 100%. It is because my beliefs most closely match his. There is little I agree with Obama.

The choice is yours and yours alone to make.

Answer 2

There are a few key issues that I am most interested in that the candidates are opposed on.  

The Military: The left was swearing all over that Iraq was in civil war and that a troop surge would just kill more soldiers and lead to a 'debacle' and 'quagmire'.  McCain supported the surge and not only is there no civil war but we just turned the birthplace of Al-Qieda in Iraq, the Anbar Province, back over to the Iraqi Government. The Sunnis are steeled in their resolve to keep terrorists out of their country. In short-the surge worked!  Obama would have us withdraw from Iraq and leave the country to be picked apart by warlords and terror factions that would sweep in.  This would give the Iraqi people, especially her children, a sense of abandonment in their greatest time of need.  The last time we did that was in Afghanistan after the Russian invasion which helped develop the mind of a young Osama Bin Laden. Remember, military issues are not ended overnight.  We were in Japan for 7 years AFTER they surrendered, and that was when the Government let the Armed Forces do what they do without political kibitzing.

The Economy: It is my belief that Liberals (not all democrats) are fundamentally backwards when it comes to economics.  They fail to realize that it is only good for us when the companies we work for are profitable.  If you give companies and corporations tax incentives, then they  have more money to give us.  When we have more money, we buy things and go places, which increases sales tax revenue.  If you reduce OUR tax burden, we spend even more.  Obama would rather penalize companies that make a profit but eliminating tax incentives and then raising the minumum wage.  Not only will this cause corporations to lose revenue, which means that your 4% raise just became a 1% or less raise; but it will cause small businesses to go belly up.  Unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will go in the toilet....and the left will need to increase taxes on us to get the money they want for government welfare programs.

Healthcare:  Obama (and Hillary) keep touting Universal Healthcare, like they have in Canada. They say that Socialized Medicine is the way to go.  Just ask a Canadian how they like it...they HATE it.  You lose your right to choose your doctor.  The government tells you who your doc is, and it isn't always the closest or the best.  Wait times for primary services take weeks and specialized services take months for appointments.  Doctors, who go thru years of college and hundreds of thousands of dollars in schooling now are lower paid government employees since they can no longer bill supplementary insurances; it's all paid by the gov.  There are no longer private insurance companies, so those people are out of a job.  You will be paying LOTS more in taxes for people to make an appointment for every little sniffle, ache and pain.

2nd Amendment: Obama wants to make it a crime to own a gun.  Criminals are already going to commit a crime, so why should they be afraid to use a gun on a now unarmed public?  It is a fact that in areas that have less restrictive gun laws, violent crime has been reduced because a criminal doesn't know if his intended victim is armed.  Let a person take a class on the safe handling and use of a firearm, the laws in regards to self defense and defense of others, and then give them a permit to carry a weapon in an educated manner.

Tort Reform: The only profiteering that the left doesn't go after are the lawyers.  We have become a sue-happy society and the lawyers are getting 1/3 of all these millions.  Class Action suits against asbestos made lawyers multi-millionaires in the 80's and Billionaires when they went after tobacco companies.  The victims? They got squat.  The new gold mine is environmental lawsuits.  Obama wants everything to be green - but how?  Wind Farms?  Sure, as long as you put em where no one can see em....except those places don't have any wind.  Solar?  The money saved by using solar cells just barely covers the cost of purchase and installation. Hybrid cars?  Wait a few more years when the batteries need to be replaced and people start screaming about the thousands of dollars cost for the parts and recycling fees. McCain has plans to make better use of existing energy technology but we need to fast track the upgrading of energy plants and building of new plants to make more energy available to an already overtaxed grid; and he wants to do it with incentives, not mandates.  You can't spur technology advances by using a whip!  But if you dangle a carrot, R&D will make logarithmic leaps forward.

Answer 3

I am most likely voting for Obama.  The two factors that most influence my vote are:

1. John McCain has declared he wants to make the Bush tax cuts permanent.  If you look at those tax cuts, the only people that really benefited are those that make $300,000 or more per year.  The rest of us actually pay a higher percentage of our income in taxes than those people and corporations that benefit from the tax cut. As far as the tax cuts helping the economy, I can't survive the kind of help we have received so far.

2. Obama has the desire to remove lobby money from owning our country. At first,looking at having tax payers fund elections seems bad, until you consider how much someone contributing to a candidate receives.  For every $1,000 contributed, we eventually pay that and a lot more in legislative favors for the contributor.  I want to see law makers submit expense reports and have the treasury reimburse the expenses.  Then if they accept a nickle from a lobbiest, throw them in jail. Our political system is too corrupt and must be fixed.

I feel John McCain would bring a number of positive attributes to the office if he were elected, but because of the two issues I have listed, I am going to try Obama.

Good Luck in your decision, it is a hard one.  (P.S. Those that say they are "A lifelong Republican or Democrat but are voting the other way"  Probably are not telling the truth.) I have included one well documented source outlining the pro's and con's of the tax cut.

Answer 4

You are hot. Are you running for anything?

Answer 5

Since it seems so far that no one else is answering your question seriously, I will try to do just that.

I'm voting McCain because McCain is against raising taxes period.   I also like his plans for education.   I don't like the idea of socialized healthcare because although it sounds good in theory you lose a lot of quality in practice so that's one reason I won't vote Obama.  McCain has military experience which I think is important when dealing with the war in Iraq and in dealing with tensions from overseas.  He also has more foreign policy experience than Obama which again is important dealing with tensions overseas.   I think McCain's plans for economic reform and environmental reform are more realistic and more readily achievable than Obama's.

I'm also more moderate in my social views which is more inline with McCain.  Obama is on the extreme left.   That's why I'm voting McCain.  Hope that helps.

Answer 6

I've been planning to vote for Obama since (seriously) 2006. I met him at a rally at a college nearby and have followed his politics ever since.

The best thing that I think you can do when looking at candidates is find a few issues that are really important to you, something that maybe you don't hear much about. When I did this for a class this summer I picked Native American Relations, the War in Iraq (kinda cliche), and drilling for oil in Alaska. I researched what both candidates say on those topics and I learned A LOT. I also think it was beneficial cause now I have some solid areas other than the usual g*y marriage, abortion, and Iraq that most people depend on.  

Answer 7

It's easier to tell you who I'm NOT voting for and why.

Obama’s socialist spending plans are aimed at equalizing wealth; with “hope” and “change”, the exact mantra of Fidel Castro. We will all be equal, equally poor just as they are in Cuba now. Another fellow that has had Obama’s platform was popular in 1917. His name was Valdimir Lenin and we know what a success that was. Obama by the way admits to being an admirer of Karl Marx.

Of course most of Obama’s rhetoric is absolute B.S. Fortunately, if he does manage to become our President, the congress and senate will be able to moderate him just as they did the most incompetent Nancy Pelosi.

Obama is lickin’ his chops over the military budget. He intends to dessimate our military.  He doesn’t give a c**p about U.S. security or takin’ the fight to the enemy. He wants to spend that money not save it. He has a bill right now on the floor of the Senate called the “Global Poverty Act”. $300 billion (the same we have spent defending this nation since 9/11) to give to the United Nations to “FEED THE WORLD”. Obama was against the war. He has never said WHY.

What Obama is proposing is socialism and it does not work. It is not my responsibility to feed other nations. It is the responsibility of those nations to feed their people. I could care less if someone who has never been to the United States likes the image portrayed by the Liberal media. As far as giving….the citizens of the United States give more than any government BY FAR including our own. Tsunami victims ring a bell. So who really cares? If liberals donated blood as much as conservatives the blood supply would increase 50%. Conservatives donate money at an even higher rate compared to Liberals. And when it comes to getting off the couch and actually donating time…24 to 1. Mostly Christian Conservatives. So when hurricane Katrina hit and you saw on TV all those volunteers who came out to help, for every 25 people in the shot, only 1 liberal. And I think that was Sean Penn.

Also, he is NOT a Christian. He's the only IL state senator to vote against the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, which required medical care to be given to live infants who survived abortions. I find that absolutely disgusting. That kind of person is NOT who I want running the country I so love.

Answer 8

I'm voting for the one who isn't a former crackhead.

Answer 9

i am not voting. maybe in 2012

Mitt Romney 2012

Answer 10

Lies you should know about before you make your decision -

Obama is not racist, he is half white himself & was raised by a white woman {his mother}

-Obama is NOT a former crackhead that is definitely a lie

-Obama is NOT a baby killer, he is just pro choice, which i'm sure you know means that he he giving woman the chance to chose for themselves .. (nothing wrong with that)

-Obama does NOT hate america ..

-Obama is NOT muslum

-Obama is NOT going to be taking our money out of our paychecks .. he said himself he was going to be cutting taxes for 95% of working families ..

all these rummors were made up about him ..

If you vote for Obama you can expect change .. that's all I can say!

Answer 11

Barak Obama

Answer 12

The first thing to keep in mind is to not vote based on the candidate's skin color. That being said I am voting for  Obama because I believe we need someone with intelligence (long overdue) someone that speaks proper english and doesn't make-up words,someone relatively young who's in touch with society and our modern world's beliefs and technology

someone that doesn't try to solve every problem by shooting at it and someone who truly believes that every man and woman is created equal.

How do I know the he qualifies for all that? I don't, no one really does but I believe and hope that he does.

Answer 13

You want to get the USA into more debt than we already are in?

Don't vote for McCain then. (Bush will just leave him a to-do list on the refrigerator in the White House down the hall from his young hot VP which is a nice piece of EYE CANDY!!) also having her running errands just to watch her walk in and out of the Oval Office. LOL

He reminds me of meeting an attractive young women for the 1st time and wants to give her the world, but in his case he wants to give her the whole country.

She is just 1 heart beat away from running the U.S.A. WOW!!  

Answer 14

Sounds as if you are probably moderate, like most Americans.  We normally get caught having to vote for one extreme or the other.  I've been and voted Dem all my life.  But this year, I'm voting McCain.  This is why:

Hillary and McCain are both moderates.

Obama is as left as they come.  All of his heroes are Marxists.  His Global Tax bill goes a long way to show his intentions.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/t...

The concept is to make Americans pay an additional tax and then give the money to an international governance who would decide what to do with the money *after* we give it to them!  

But move on to paragraphs 7 & 8 where much is hidden.  It actually refers to other documents.  You have to know what is in them, but Obama is suggesting that we give away our right to bear small arms.  *Small* arms.

Do the research.  It's scary.  

--a life-long Dem and Hillary supporter who is vigorously campaigning for McCain because I *do* know a thing or two about politics!

Answer 15

I would recommend that you watch Palin speak at the Republican National Convention tomorrow night, (Wednesday). As a matter of fact, just watch the whole thing tomorrow. I think you'll know who to vote for after that! Look, Palin can't help it if her daughter did something thousands of other teenage girls do, but that is their business. As for McCain & Palin, I really believe that they know how to get things done and they will make great things happen for the good of this country. Honestly, Obama has charm, but I'm scared to think he may be in charge of America. I want to see McCain & Palin in the White House, and bringing back pride, and happiness to the American people! They can do it, and we've got to be the ones to put them in that position! Vote McCain / Palin 2008!!! If you walk up to the voting booth this November, and you're still undecided, just mark McCain / Palin, and you will have voted for 4 years of a new America. THEY are the REAL CHANGE that America needs!!!

Answer 16

As usual, it boils down to who do you think will cause the least harm to the country, rather than which candidate do you really believe will actually DO something GOOD for the country.

Answer 17

This is the motto of the NEO CON right::

Do as I say - not as I do.

If you dont vote McCain - you must hate America too

Answer 18

Obama because bush ruined the economy and started a needless war which is goin badly both failed policies McCain endorses and pledges to continue. Best way to decide is ask urself does bush work for u because McCain admits himself he wont be much different in his policies

People who make a quarter million can easily pay a bit extra so the rest of us have some basics like healthcare. Also the big wigs @companies that gouch in wartime export jobs and pollute dont need to be given tac breaks they need to be held accountable for their crimes.

Answer 19

ok. I am voting for Obama. He is not my first or even second choice, but he is better than more of the same McCain.

The reason why? Since Ronald Reagan, the republicans have been cutting taxes while drastically raising  spending on the military. This has led to huge deficits...around 7 to 8 trillion dollars worth since 1980. Our country is in serious financial trouble, yet we are now spending  750 billion dollars a year on the military. Obama is the better choice here because he wants to us the h**l out of Iraq, where we spend over 10 billion a month off budget.

The other thing that is scary is that McCain will try to face off against Russia by going forward with the defense missile shield in Poland, and try to bring Georgia and other former Soviet Union countries into NATO.  Russia was promised this would not happen, and now they are getting angry about it. This an extremely foolish foreign policy, unless you want to start WWIII. That's why I think Obama is the better choice, because he is more diplomatic than Bush or McCain.

These two reasons alone, in my opinion, are enough to caste a vote for Obama over McCain.

A few others are Health Care, a balanced or nearly balanced budget, and a return to the constitution. I can think of many others but I don't want to go on to long here.

I have no doubt Obama is the better choice. He is very smart. He has written two books, writes his own speeches, has a degree in political science with an emphasis on international relations, a doctorate law degree from Harvard with honors, was chief editor and president of the Harvard Law Review. He has a history of bringing people or opposing sides together. He is ready to be president; he knows the law and constitution better than McCain and Bush put together and then some.

        

    

Answer 20

It is so interesting that one of the most important elections in this Nation's history has so little to offer the American people in terms of choices for President. I am baffled by the two not so great candidates. I am ready to vote for whoever might run as that third party...I don't care who it turns out to be. Please, please, somebody give us a better choice and a better chance.