Do the ones running for office get to vote also? Just wondering..I mean for any office but espically President.

Sure, Sammy, they get to vote for themselves.

It used to be cinsidered a courtesy to vote for your opponant. Of course courtesy has rather totally departed the political stage. And if a candidate doesn't think they are the best why should I consider voting for them?

I seriously doubt if anyone running for president ever voted for his opponent. Some, however, didn't vote at all. As a soldier always moving from location to location, Zachary Taylor never established an offical place of residence and never registered to vote, He didn't even vote in his own election. It wasn't until he was 62 that he cast his first ballot. I just learned, here on AnswerPool.com, that Eisenhower is also one who never voted prior to his running.

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Originally posted by Doriangreyed:
I seriously doubt if anyone running for president ever voted for his opponent. Some, however, didn't vote at all. As a soldier always moving from location to location, Zachary Taylor never established an offical place of residence and never registered to vote, He didn't even vote in his own election. It wasn't until he was 62 that he cast his first ballot. I just learned, here on AnswerPool.com, that Eisenhower is also one who never voted prior to his running.

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Yes. It seems curious to me that a candidate who has missed voting in even a single election is likely to be attacked for that lapse alone -- as if every election had issues worthy of everyone's attention. Some of the ballot propositions I see, I can see the merits of passing or rejecting, or have no confidence in my ability to forsee the consequences of passing or rejecting. Under these circumstances, abstaining, on at least some issues, seems the only honorable course. Likewise with candidates for public office. If they represent only slightly different positions on the issues of interest to me, why should I vote for either? Is it not better to leave the election to those who have an interest in it's outcome?

Alan Moore