Absentee ballot for the President of the United States
 

All are welcome to vote: Note only two canidates, no write in votes.

This only counts for subsim members anyway, no national polls will report us lol

Democratic party canidate: Barack H. Obama

Republican canidate: Mitt Romney

If the polling trends keep going the way they have been and he doesn't flub the last debate I think Romney is going to win.

I still don't think Mitt has quite got what it takes, but it's certainly going to be close. If anything, for the GOPs sake I hope he fails, they need a shake-up and a revaluation to survive the 21st century.

Still, time will tell...it's what...less than three weeks now?

I have no idea, nor would I care to guess. I only wondered why you used Obama's full name (with middle initial) but not Willard M. Romney's.

Right Wing, Tea Party bias thing. :O:

Really? I thought maybe he didn't know. :D

:D Good ole Willard ... how could I ever forget a name like that? :hmmm:

It is tough to upset an incumbent.

To unseat an incumbent president two factors have to be present.

1. The citizens must be significantly displeased with the incumbent

and

2. The challenger must be able to offer something significantly better.

Lacking these two factors, the incumbent usually wins.

This is what happened in 2004.

The first factor was present. President Bush had very low approval rates. however, Kerry and the Democrats failed to demonstrate that Kerry would be a significant improvement over Bush. The result is that the "tie" goes to the incumbent.

Kerry could not run on the "I am not Bush" platform. Romney wont be able to win on the "I am not Obama" platform either. Unfortunately, Romney's platform relies a lot on him not being Obama.

I think Obama will win, but it will be close. And once again, Obama will win because the RNC failed to offer us a viable candidate.

I mean really? The RNC is telling me that Romney is the best of the best of the best of the Republican Party? Really?

I know I will be voting against a candidate instead of voting for a candidate and frankly I am sick of that. :nope:

Election boycot from me. Turnout drops slightly, therefore.

Not a manual nullification of my ballot, which would help to keep the turnout up, but a refusal to vote at all.

Noticed this ad above the poll: Donate $5.00 to the Romney campaign

I plan on voting for Obama, but my wife says she's voting for Romney. It has been somewhat a fuss, as I have told her that she can't, but she says she will anyway. I told her since we will void each other out, we should just stay at home.

I think from most perspectives outside the US, even the thought that Romney would win seems bizarre at this point.

By the way Skybird, my understanding this poll isn't "who you'd vote for" but "who you think will win". If it was the former, then I would also abstain.

Cant afford 4 more years of this.

No kidding, we should never have wasted all those billions on Iraq.

And who put us there.


Oh that's right.