If you hated the Democratic candidate would you vote for a Republican?

[undeterred]

Poll question: If you hated the Democratic candidate would you vote for a Republican?

[NightWatcher]

1. Other: wouldnt vote, wouldnt donate, wouldnt volunteer.....

Apathy will kill the dems in 2010

[yourout]

2. I will never ever ever again vote for a Republican so its Dem/Independant/Green or stay home.

[rox63]

3. I have cast a whole 1 vote for a republican in my entire life

And it was only because the Dem candidate appeared to suck worse than the Repuke. (Weld-Silber, 1990 MA governor's race)

[undeterred]

6. Me too, and that was Gerald Ford.

I regretted it within an hour when I talked to someone with more information. Chalk it up to youth and inexperience.

[Captain Hilts]

4. It really depends. I DID vote for John Warner way back when because he knew

where Norfolk was, unlike any of his predecessors and the Democratic candidate.

[Cosmocat]

16. I vote R locally ...

every election, because at the local level you have some real decent people who do good jobs who just happen be Rs ...

the higher the office, the it repulses me to think about it, though ...

the party has completely been sucked dry of ANY level of conscience ... I mean, in congress, it is like one big vote, these idiots seemingly have no ability whatsoever to break from the pack, and worse, they are backstabbing, back talking scumbags ... EVERY stinking one of these arseholes voted against the stimulus bill, threw a big stink about it to their base or whenever they could get a microphone in front of their faces, then went back home and took credit for projects funded by stimulis money ...

IF there were actually an R who had a conscience, who was not a republican autobot who did not feed the beast, I could vote for him or her if the D was that bad ... But, the Limbaugh/Gingrich/Santorum movement has pretty much killed the R party's ability to have anyone with a conscience elected to a higher office ...

[undeterred]

19. Thats a really good point.

I was thinking of Congress when I wrote the question. I would never ever vote Republican for a representative in the House or Senate. It matters how many Democrats there are, even if they don't vote with the party on everything.

For an executive office like mayor, I could vote for a Republican, theoretically. It hasn't happened but I can't rule it out.

[Captain Hilts]

24. You have cases like DC, where Rs like Carol Shwartz provide the only alternative. nt

[WeDidIt]

5. I voted for Rod Blagojevich in 2006 knowing full well he was crooked scum with no doubt whatsoever

Does that tell you how I voted in your poll?

[LEW]

8. Ditto - I voted Blag too..........

Knew he was a disaster but the repub was a disaster also.

[WeDidIt]

10. And there was no way I wnated Topinka appointing Obama's successor

I was fully convinced Obama was going to run.

[undeterred]

9. Living in Illinois is an extenuating circumstance...

especially Chicago. I lived there for 20 years and voted for lots of corrupt Democrats.

[Radical Activist]

23. I voted for Rich Whitney and still feel good about my vote.

[JVS]

7. I wouldn't vote. Do you actually think that I'm going to put a democratic candidate I hate...

in the incumbent position so that I keep having to come back for more of their shittiness? Maybe for something with term limits, but helping elect a shitheel Senator could be something that sticks around the rest of your life.

[donco6]

11. If I perceived no difference between the two, maybe.

I can see where people might do that. I don't think I could.

[PDJane]

12. It would depend on the Republican,

But it wouldn't matter how much I hated the Democrat, I would not vote for a republican like Brown. The man's an absolute waste of breath and space....and no Democrat would be likely to have policies and viewpoints more damaging to the things that the country needs.

[vi5]

13. Will never, ever vote for a republican....

And up until recently I would have never not voted straight dem ticket either. In 21 years of voting.

No more though. I have too much in my life with a family, and a sick child and a job and balancing all of that to donate time, money, and whatever else to candidates who are simply "not as bad as the other guy."

If a Dem proves to be worth my time and share my values on most key issues then by all means I will donate all of those things and vote for them. But I'm no longer voting straight dem ticket just to get them to some magical, mythical number that they keep changing the goal line on.

Maybe when the get effective leadership in the house and senate then I'll change my mind.

[Inspired]

14. I take great pride in the fact that I've never voted for a Republican. And never will.

[The Green Manalishi]

15. Third Party

Green or Libertarian or Peace and Freedom, whichever candidate has his/her act together.


Political parties suck. Or at least I wish we had 20 or 30 of them and a parliamentary system.

[ThomWV]

17. If I hated the Democrat and wouldn't vote for the Republican I'd have to run myself

Because somebody has to fill the job.

[Motown_Johnny]

18. Last year I voted for one Green Party candidate because I could not vote for the (D)

So, no. I would not vote for the (R) but I would not vote for the (D) either

[Sara Bradi]

20. I want a capable D to represent me...

so I would vote R to unseat the worthless D currently in office, so we can have a primary and perhaps a better candidate, the next time around.

[undeterred]

36. Complicated.

[Sara Bradi]

37. kinda

if you ate something that didn't agree with you, rather than eat more of it and hope that it will eventually taste better, you purge it out of your body and find something else to eat.

[StarfarerBill]

21. Other: I'd vote for the Green or Socialist candidate (if they were on the ballot) first,

Democratic candidate second, the Republican candidate never.

[Radical Activist]

22. I vote third party or skip voting in those races.

[The_Commonist]

25. Other...

I have voted for third party candidates in the past, particularly when the Dem sucked and was certain to win anyway. I've never actually voted for a Republican. I would do so if the Rep were right for the job, but the Reps are NEVER right for the job.

[xchrom]

26. I've never voted repuke -- I have stayed home in protest of a bad dem candidate. Nt

[MissDeeds]

27. I wouldn't vote

If we continue to hold our noses and vote for candidates we hate, we deserve what we get.

[TwilightGardener]

28. If the Republican was a better candidate, yes--but I think that's only

happened once or twice in my voting history, and only at the local level. I would not vote for a Repub Senator, Rep or President.

[prairierose]

29. I will never vote for a repub but I sometimes refrain ...

from voting for my conservadem congresscritter. I usually just hold my nose and mark the ballot for her. I wish someone with brains and integrity would run against her.

[treestar]

30. I've only voted for one Republican

It was for AG, which is sort of apolitical, I thought the R had more experience and the D was just running on his name. D won - it was Beau Biden.

Now I'll vote for Biden if he runs in Nov. regardless of name/royalty considerations.

[liberal_at_heart]

31. I would vote third party

[rucky]

32. Write-in for Mickey Mouse n/t

[Madman of the People]

33. Unity is the answer!

The Republicscums are unified and will vote for any Republicscum candidate, no matter how awful they are. The only way to counter this is for we to be united in opposition to Rupublicscum neo-fascism. I may not like the democratic candidate, but I HATE the Rupublican candidate even more!

To those so-called Democrats who said they would either stay at home or vote for a Republicscum: YOU are part of the problem!


Madman of the People

[DefenseLawyer]

34. Hated? Or just not the candidate I would choose?

Some people use the word "hate" differently than others. If I actually hated someone I wouldn't vote for him or her. If I just thought the candidate was the typical tool that normally seeks public office I would still vote for him if he was a Democrat. I'm not a big fan of protest votes. I think it's better in the long run to work from the inside.

[SlingBlade]

35. I would not vote at all if I hated the Democratic candidate.

That is exactly what happened in MA.

We either learn how to fight these bastards or we fall
It's as simple as that