Is anyone actually going to vote for Mitt Romney? Pages 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NEXT | |
I guess is that approximately 50% of the American voting public will vote for Romney. But then again, that statement would most likely be true if the name of any other politician replaced Romney's. | |
I'm fairly certain you won't get that many coming forward on here to say they will vote for Romney, and definitely nowhere near an accurate result that reflects how the US population as a whole will vote; most people on here have | |
A better question: If you are casting your ballot for Romney, are you voting for Romney or against Obama? And if you're voting for Romney, then why? | |
Considering Romney is basically Obama plus all the traits of the Republican party I loathe and barely any that I respect, I can't imagine anyone would vote for him. He's the worst of all worlds. | |
I miss Frothy...he would have made the election so much funnier... | |
I'll vote for him but I can't really endorse him. I still loathe b-rock more. | |
I haven't made a decided on who I am going to vote for yet. | |
Some people expect Romney's VP to be a crazy nutjob to help appeal to the crazies who might be apathetic towards him. Frothy may come in from behind as Romney's VP, assuming he doesn't pull out again. | |
My vote will be going to Good Ol' Gary but chances are, the elections are going to be close with Obama taking a slight lead, depending on the things Romney does in the upcoming months. | |
Either him or Gary Johnson. If it looks like there's any chance my state will go for Romney I'll vote for him, but otherwise I'm voting for the only candidate I don't want to punch in the face. | |
I somewhat expect Condoleezza Rice to be the choice for VP. But that's just my guess. As for the actual question, well, I'm Canadian. If I could, though, I would vote for Romney. | |
I wan't a person who is voting for Romney to tell me why, beyond vague promises about cutting taxes and closing loopholes. , never saying who's taxes or what loopholes and shooting Obama care dead. No one is voting for Romney, they are voting against Obama. | |
Of course I am not voting for Romney, but my vote doesn't really count because I am in Texas and he will win Texas anyhow. | |
Not a chance I'm voting fopr Romney. I don't feel like he's given me any reason TO vote for him....kinda key in a candidate IMHO... "I'm not Obama" is not really a reason... | |
Not voting. My vote doesn't matter, I'm in the reddest red state. | |
Former Secretary Rice's name is often touted out, but almost all serious observations of Professor Rice have found her to not want to return to the White House any time soon (her time as National Security Adviser and Secretary of State were miserable). Plus, she has never actually ran for elected office. While her resume is impressive by any reasonable standard (Come'on Hilary/Rice 2016), she's never been on the campaign trail, and the VP-nomination would be a total crash course when Romney least needs it. By the way: You're probably the first person on this board to say he would vote for Romney, as opposed to voting against Obama, given the chance. Might I ask why? | |
against Obama I would never vote for Romney given a wider range of options, but between those two, he appears to be more... survivable, particularly given his experience salvaging economic nightmares. At the current rate of increase under Obama, the INTEREST on our debt is set to soon reach unpayable levels, based on his own best case scenario estimates. I would lament the lost ground on certain social issues, but ensuring stability, economic and otherwise, holds a significantly higher priority. | |
Ideally I'd rather vote for Ron Paul but that's just not really much of an option. So yeah, I'll likely be voting for Romney, or more specifically I'll be voting against Obama. Nothing personal against the man but I just don't know how much more "Hope and Change" I can handle. | |
If you're on the escapist i doubt you'd vote romney, in the end, you're on the escapist. | |
See, I'm voting for Obama for the same reason. I don't trust Romney to lower the budget in any way, shape, or form. The thing in the US budget that needs the most cutting at this point is the defense budget, and at least I expect him to do nothing about it, and most I expect Romney to raise it. The Republicans bang on and on about lowering taxes and spending, and they lower the taxes sure enough because it's about the easiest kind of thing to campaign and pass. But they never have the balls to cut spending. I'd rather have a President who does nothing with the budget or taxes, than yet another who successfully lowers taxes but doesn't manage to cut anything. And don't you dare try and say some person or party sabotaged their last attempt to lower spending, whenever that was. If any of them had the balls they would cooperate and do what it takes to lower the spending. But they don't, neither side does. And don't expect Romney to grow a pair between now and November, especially with how he allowed the Republican base to neuter him from being the "Moderate from Massachusetts" to being virtually indistinguishable from anyone else on the far right as soon as he became the favorite for the spot (which, ironically, was probably because he was one of the most moderate going for the spot). | |
I think, ideally, a lot of us would be voting for someone else. Neither candidate is all that good. Romney is too...squishy...when it comes to actual opinions, and is led around by the nose by everyone else, while Obama just doesn't belong as President. He just doesn't seem to have the right mindset for the job. | |
Obama might at least put up some red tape for the rich to continue fucking over everyone. Romney will kick down the doors for them. I mean his tax plan literally is take from the poor to give to the rich. Plus when it comes to thing the President ACTUALLY has a direct impact like in foreign relations Obama would beat any republican hands down. | |
Of course people are, not too many on this site obviously.
On the flipside he could be looking for someone like Spiro Agnew, someone so crazy that no one will even think of trying to assassinate him because they'll get an even worse President. | |
A Frothy and Bachmann ticket would be the most amazing thing to happen to the U.S., the debates would have to be screened on Comedy Central! | |
I'll be voting for Romney. I'm not excited about him but then I am definitely not happy with Obama. I'm curious though. Why would you vote for Obama? What is it that he has done that would get him re-elected? Did you know that every second term is always without question worse than their first term due to the lame duck aspect of the office. I have yet to see an ad stating what good Obama has done. I have seen ads saying don't pick Romney because he is worse. In fact Obama is so full of crap he says how much he hates superpacs. Oh really? Then why doesn't he shut his own superpac down? This guy is so full of crap it's embarrassing that anyone would actually vote for him. At the same time Romney isn't much better of a choice. Both parties seem to walk the same path just at a different pace. | |
In my view, a largely docile president is better then a president who will cut taxes but ignore spending, or at least ignore spending he likes, for example, defense which he outright stated he will not cut. And please, don't pretend that anyone of the candidates hands are clean, both have run total smear campaigns, Obama's ads that appeal to emotion and Romney's outright lie about the context of the "you did not build that" speech. In the end, I will vote for Obama, I feel that Romney would widen the deficit, while Obama, if he does not stand up against the republicans, will just leave the economy stagnant. | |
I'm going to be writing in a Potato for President. Because a Potato would be a far better candidate than the clowns we have running for the Presidency right now. | |
I would predict approximately 0.47 (share of the vote) * 0.55 (voter turnout) * 225 million (US adult citizens) will vote for Mitt Romney. Call it 50-60 million. | |
They could run against Vermin Supreme. People would make movies of it for generations! | |
No, of course not. Anyone stupid enough to vote for him would have killed themselves in their own stupidity by now! Oh, wait. Red states. Sigh. | |
Swing states may vote for a free market executive, a State executive and a very bland, likable guy that isn't tied to Bill Ayers. Obama's rep? "The roots of the nation's crisis, he [Obama] declared, were systemic. Fundamental change was required. He had come to deliver it. Hence his signature legislation: First, the $831 billion stimulus that was going to "reinvest" in America and bring unemployment below 6 percent. We know about the unemployment. And the investment? Obama loves to cite great federal projects such as the Hoover Dam and the interstate highway system. Fine. Name one thing of any note created by Obama's Niagara of borrowed money. A modernized electric grid? Ports dredged to receive the larger ships soon to traverse a widened Panama Canal? Nothing of the sort. Solyndra, anyone? Second, radical reform of health care that would reduce its ruinously accelerating cost. "Put simply," he said, "our health care problem is our deficit problem" - a financial hemorrhage drowning us in debt. Except that the CBO reports that Obamacare will cost $1.68 trillion of new spending in its first decade" http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/313558/case-against-reelection-charles-krauthammer | |
More uninformed dribble from Gorfias, who would have expected that. First of all $1.68 trillion is the gross cost. The net cost is $1.168 trillion, a big difference. The other thing, it is not adding $1.168 trillion to the deficit because it is replacing existing spending. You are all to happy to point out the cost in the report, but neglect to mention this sentence on page 6.
The reason is simple, while repealing the ACA would save $1.171 trillion, it would be offset by the $1.28 trillion in direct spending and lost revenue. | |
Translation: we need reform? I think everyone agrees on that. I'd like it to be very different than what Obama gave us. I think there may be enough people like me willing to vote Romney to make that statement. | |
Every swing state has Obama up by between 2%-7%. Even Karl Rove is projecting an Obama win. "Free market executive"? Romney has tried to distance himself from his Bain stuff ever since it started getting talked about. Culminating in his 'retroactively CEO' comment. | |
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I've been keeping up with US politics lately because of the upcoming elections. I know he's only the presumptive nominee of the Republicans but lets be honest he's going to run for office.
So as the title says, will you be voting for Romney. I can't actually vote because I'm not a US citizen but if I could I would re elect Obama but that's besides the point. I want to know what people who can actually vote in the upcoming US elections think about this guy.