I try to vote for the candidate that I believe will do the best job in the office that they are seeking. To my sorrow, on several occasions I have come to regret my choice. The current presidential administration is an example...
Dwight
Posts: 4280 | Location: Anchorage, AK | Registered: 06-05-02
"I have never voted for the Republican candidate." Though, as I have only been eligible to vote in two presidential elections, that's not saying all that much.
Posts: 4360 | Location: Rochester, NY, USA | Registered: 06-03-02
So far my personal tally is Republicans 5, Minor party candidate 2. And, like Lighteningrodd, voting for another minor party candidate in 2008 may very well be in the cards.
Posts: 3474 | Location: Colfax, WA--the home of the world's largest chain-saw sculpture!! | Registered: 06-03-02
Never understood you and your two party system . Unfortunately, the one moment you get a government that can do what it was elected to do you get a President who seems, by some accounts, to be abusing the system. How any country can be governed by an endless series of uncertain compromises and deals remains a mystery to Britons Still if it works for you...
I have never voted with my party simply because they were my party - except of course in the primaries where you have. When the time comes to vote, my vote goes to the person I think will do the better job. (or unfortunately in some cases, who will do the least damage)
I don't think the two party (or more) system will ever change, I just wish that we were allowed to vote outside of our party in a primary.
. Unfortunately, the one moment you get a government that can do what it was elected to do you get a President who seems, by some accounts, to be abusing the system. How any country can be governed by an endless series of uncertain compromises and deals remains a mystery to Britons 
Still if it works for you...
