Absentee ballot for the President of the United States

[AVGWarhawk]

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.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Right Wing, Tea Party bias thing.

Really? I thought maybe he didn't know.

[Platapus]

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.