General election poll

[Feanorcurufinwe]

Poll question: General election poll

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. No doubt!

:hi:

[MrBenchley]

2. Who the hell voted for the Chimp?

[Jack_Dawson]

4. Probably someone who wants you to ask that question

:-)

[Maddy McCall]

6. I am restraining myself...

I will just say that I wish Skinner would look at who voted that way and, um, take appropriate action.

He can, after all, see who votes how, if I remember correctly from an AtA question about polls.


Unless the voter is a freep prowler, I would ask the person who voted that way: Why are you even at DU??? What's the point of being on a progressive forum if you support the most repressive administration in US history?

[TexasMexican]

LoL

So you are saying that we need to have polls like the old Iraqi elections where once choice gets 100% of the vote.

IMO having a few votes for the bad choice is a good thing for polls regardless, it adds some credibility to it.

[Maddy McCall]

13. Yeah, a vote for the Democratic nominee is a vote for Sadaam.

:eyes:

[TexasMexican]

19. no but...

you seem to be advocating that people get tombstoned because they for whatever reasons chose to vote for the "wrong choice."

Whats the point of even having polls like this if you want them to always have 100% of the "right choice."

All these loyalty tests polls are really gettting annoying, how many have we had in just this past week, like 5 or 6?

[Maddy McCall]

23. How about I explicitly tell you what I advocate so you don't have to guess

A vote for Bush at this progressive website (for whatever reason, including protest that other choices aren't on the poll) is never the "right choice."

Read the DU rules and tell me where it says that Bush supporters are welcome at DU.

[TexasMexican]

25. well...

This polls author said that we could show our support of third party candidates by voting for Bush in this poll.

but as far as I am concerned, a third-party vote is a vote for Bush, so anyone who wishes to vote third-party in this poll, should just register that vote directly.

Also I think are you just getting your panties in a twist over a meaningless poll just because it didnt somehow automagically get 100% one way or the other.

[Maddy McCall]

26. His abstraction is correct.

Bush appreciates your vote.

[zoeyfong]

44. One could say that a vote for Bush is a vote for a better Democratic Party

There is such a thing as long term thinking. Dems have been losing for a long time, and ironically, their 'do anything to win' strategy is probably the reason why.

[Maddy McCall]

27. dupe - double post

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[blondeatlast]

39. I'm sure this poll was meant to be dead serious.

//sarcasm off

[Feanorcurufinwe]

41. I don't understand your post.

Based on 142 votes, 14% are for Bush.

That is something I understand.

[Nederland]

3. My choice isn't Listed

Before people flame me, what I would like to see is this:

Voting Third Party (I live in a non-swing state)

on edit, some people might want this too:

Voting Third Party (I don't see a difference between Dems and Repukes)


Note that I don't feel this way, but I'm betting a lot of people here do...

[meisje]

5. undecided

.

[Maddy McCall]

7. Huh?

Of the two choices listed, you are "undecided"?

People here never cease to amaze me. :shrug: :eyes:

[seaglass]

8. You really should add third party to the poll and not voting if

you can. I voted the Dem nominee but all flavors of progressives are participants on this site and some may not be voting for the Dem.

[Maddy McCall]

10. After the Dem nominee has been chosen,

according to Skinner, third party supporters won't be able to post support for third party candidates at DU, if I remember correctly what Skinner said.

[seaglass]

22. Yep, I know. Just curious how many would vote third party

or not vote - that's all.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

11. You are welcome to make such a poll

but as far as I am concerned, a third-party vote is a vote for Bush, so anyone who wishes to vote third-party in this poll, should just register that vote directly.

[Maddy McCall]

14. I agree with ya...

We saw how it affected the 2000 election. It will help Bush again in 2004.

[seaglass]

15. Nah, that's ok. Just thought you wanted a more accurate

picture of the way people are thinking now about the GE.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

16. I wanted an accurate picture of how many DUers will support the nominee

And how many will support Bush.

[corporatewhore]

18. a vote for a dlcer is a vote for bush oh sure his name will be different

tweedledee not tweedledumb
neoliberal not neoconservative
spineless democrat not spineless republican

[Maddy McCall]

24. hahahahahahahahaha!

You don't try to be humorous, but I find this post SO DAMNED funny.

If you believe that there is no difference between the Bush administration and ANY DEMOCRATIC administration, you are wrong.

You want four more years of Bush? Fine, protest the Dem nominee; help Bush get re{s}elected We'll talk again in 2008--perhaps then you will have changed your opinion.

[INTELBYTES]

29. Your blind allegiance is frightening.

I am ABB in spirit, but not to the zealous point that I would put any incompetent hack in office. If we just choose "anyone" just to get rid of this current administration and he screws up the country, we have only ourselves to blame if we can't get another Dem in the white house for another decade.

I'm not voting for bush, nor am I voting for Kerry. I'd rather stay at home and watch reruns of the superbowl halftime.

[Maddy McCall]

30. Which one of our candidates is an "incompetent hack?"

I think any of the present field is MUCH better than what presently occupies the Oval Office.

I've been politically active since Carter, and can't say that any serious Democratic candidate would be worse than the Republicans who have held the presidential office.

It's not blind allegiance; it's a voice of experience from seeing the havok the Republican party has unleashed on our nation, and knowing that ANY Democratic challenger in the past 25 years would have been better than ANY Republican who has held office.

If a frog had wings, it wouldn't scrape its butt when it jumps. None of the Democrats running right now are as bad as the Republican one of them will face on November 2.

Stay home and watch reruns. That's a grand contribution to this nation. :eyes:

[bigwillq]

9. The DEM nominee

even it it's a tootsie roll

[Maddy McCall]

12. I hope that the pro-Bush votes are the result of Freepers lurking here

Am I correct that even NON-MEMBERS can vote in DU polls?

Surely no DU members voted for Bush? If so, I have to say that is the most ridiculous form of protest I have ever seen.

Free Republic will LOVE this poll...their boy carries a quarter of the vote even at our progressive web forum. Go figure. :shrug:

[maddezmom]

17. didn't know we had so many lurkers. :(

[Feanorcurufinwe]

21. You gotta hope that's what it is.

[Intelsucks]

32. You cannot vote in a poll without being a registered user.

I logged out and tried because I wasn't sure myself. That means there are freepers registered on DU. At the time of this writing, 12 just in this thread alone. :wtf:

[Maddy McCall]

33. Unbelievable--

Thanks for that info, intel, even though I hate to know it.

Glad to see that our bandwidth is being used to show support for Bush. :eyes:

[Intelsucks]

35. Pretty crazy, huh?

:wow:

[Tom Rinaldo]

47. Of course there are

Geeeze, the Republicans are known for dirty trick politics. I never believed for a moment that they don't plant some people at sites like this to muddy up the waters and piss people off. IT just goes with the territory of open access bulletin boards.

[corporatewhore]

20. if kucinich doesnt make it David Cobb

free trade will be encouraged dem (if not kucinich)or bush

[deutsey]

28. What kind of silly poll is this?

and why are there at least 11 people here who would vote for Bush?

[Intelsucks]

31. That's what I was thinkin'... What's the point?

:shrug:

[deutsey]

34. It's like asking:

Do you choose life or a painful, violent death?

How many idiots would choose the latter? Well, at least 11, according to this poll...

[Feanorcurufinwe]

36. How many DUers will vote for the Democratic nominee & how many for Bush?

That's the point.

:shrug:

[arcos]

37. This has been done at least a hundred million times...

and I get the feeling people are getting tired of it. That's probably the reason why you are starting to see a lot of polls with simply weird results.

A few days ago, Lieberman won a poll he obviously wasn't going to win here. Bush is now getting 14% of the vote here... I bet $5 that most of those who voted for Bush are simply protesting polls... or making them even more useless that what they are.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

38. They are protesting all right

but I think the motivation is different than the one you describe and I think that protest is misguided.

[deutsey]

42. How many DUers are fascists and how many are not?

How many DUers enjoy breathing and how many do not?

How many DUers prefer to insert steel rods into their eye and how many do not?

How many DUers enjoy eating the entrails of pigs and how many do not?

Why not take a poll on these questions too?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

43. Those questions aren't about politics.

Except the first one, which is implied in my poll anyway.

You could post those others in the lounge, if you wanted.

[deutsey]

50. Geewillickers

Thanks for the clarification, chief! Maybe I should have said: Will you vote for the Democratic nominee or stay home and eat fresh pig entrails?

Has the same relevance as your "poll".

:eyes:

[zoeyfong]

46. It's a false choice, but let's just say i'm not voting for kerry.

I will write in Dean.

[oasis]

45. Chimpy get out of the People's House.

[INTELBYTES]

48. Un-freeping believable!

How many people that voted for bush are freepers and how many are DU'ers pulling our chain?

[Renew Deal]

49. These are your only two choices anyway.

There is no other choice.

[bowens43]

51. Not enough choices to make an intelligent decision.