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[jmdajr]

You know you could "waste" a vote on Bernie or Hillary, but will you vote in the GOP primary instead?

You could.

A) Vote for a GOP candidate outside of Trump so he doesn't win.
B) Vote for Trump so he does win.
C) Do nothing and just pray.

I don't know, but I think this will be the fucking craziest primary season we have ever seen. Brace yourselves!

edit: I will be taking option A.

Primary Calendar

 

[Majine]

 

[ivysaur12]

California's primary is so late, he'll either have the nomination by then or won't.

 

[RPGCrazied]

I'll be doing A, thanks. Who would vote for Trump? Ugh, just no.

I'm probably going Bernie, but Clinton is going to win this thing.

 

[ctothej]

I want Trump to win the primary because he's easy to beat in the general, but I wouldn't actually vote for him. Something about voting across party lines to fuck up their primary seems... unethical.

 

[kirblar]

Yes.

Voting for Trump in the GOP primary, Hillary in the General.

Primaries are open where I'm at.

 

[internetwolf]

I'm not voting it's not worth my time imo.

 

[HvySky]

For me, voting Trump is the literal definition of a "wasted vote". Not Bernie or Hillary.

I'll have a good laugh if he wins the GOP candidacy though.

 

[shoreu]

I'm not voting it's not worth my time imo.

... dude what?

 

[mcrommert]

All i can say as a conservative...please don't

 

[Boke1879]

Nope. Wouldn't even joke about doing something like that.

 

[Kyzer]

Don't you have to be a registered Republican to vote in the primaries?

 

[Spring-Loaded]

Nope. Wouldn't even joke about doing something like that.

.

It's pointing a gun at your own head, even with the safety on — naw son.

 

[Hollycat]

No. The joke might get taken too far.

 

[gaugebozo]

All i can say as a conservative...please don't

Some men just want to see the world burn.

 

[internetwolf]

... dude what?

I value my free time and would rather spend it playing video games, I don't follow politics so I get nothing out of the voting experience.

 

[Team Alucard]

Yes. I am in Iowa and will be switching my registration to vote for Trump.

If he wins Iowa its basically over for the GOP. The polls show him with a MASSIVE lead in New Hampshire. If he sweeps both he will steamroll his way to the nomination.

 

[mcrommert]

I value my free time and would rather spend it playing video games, I don't follow politics so I get nothing out of the voting experience.

As you haven't educated yourself about the candidates or their policies I support your decision

This whole "you have to vote" nonsense is tiring...only those who are educated on the election should be voting

 

[jmdajr]

Don't you have to be a registered Republican to vote in the primaries?

You can either vote GOP or DEM but not both. In the primary.

In general election you can vote for whoever you want.

 

[BertramCooper]

If the nomination is still up for grabs by the time the Ohio primary rolls around...

I'll be tempted, at the very least.

 

[internetwolf]

As you haven't educated yourself about the candidates or their policies I support your decision

This whole "you have to vote" nonsense is tiring...only those who are educated on the election should be voting

yeah I know way too many people who vote without any proper knowledge.

Personally I can't feel comfortable voting for someone I don't know myself.

 

[Makai]

I would vote in the SC primary, but I'm moving before the primary. I'll do it if I'm eligible for absentee ballot.

 

[Ovid]

Voting for people for entertainment purposes.

What a time to be alive.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Strategically it might be a good idea but I think at some point you need to sleep at night and being complicit with evil should give you pause for that reason.

 

[Sealed]

no

why would i acknowledge him at all

 

[Cerium]

I want Trump to win the primary because he's easy to beat in the general, but I wouldn't actually vote for him. Something about voting across party lines to fuck up their primary seems... unethical.

Remember Operation Chaos from 2008? Republicans did it to us back then.

 

[Yaboosh]

Doesn't this sort of undermine democracy a little?

I don't think you should be voting on the primaries of the party you don't support.

 

[Valhelm]

All i can say as a conservative...please don't

As a liberal, I kind of agree. Trump would likely be easy to beat, but the best possibility is if he goes third party. Clinton's win in that situation would be so massive that the Republican party would take years to fully recover from that blow.

 

[thelatestmodel]

Don't even joke about it. What if he actually wins the nomination, and then becomes President?

 

[weekev]

I mean, does it really matter who gets the nomination. All of the GOP seem absolutely batshit insane. If anyone from GOP get into the whitehouse the world is fucked.

 

[davepoobond]

As you haven't educated yourself about the candidates or their policies I support your decision

This whole "you have to vote" nonsense is tiring...only those who are educated on the election should be voting

one man one vote*

only if you are "educated"
only if you have proper ID
only if you are not gerrymandered to hell
etc etc

 

[Ovid]

Trump is the new Marvel.

Six threads on the first page lol.

 

[Archer]

exactly this.

 

[JustenP88]

No. I'll be counting down the minutes until people stop talking about him.

 

[dramatis]

yeah I know way too many people who vote without any proper knowledge.

Personally I can't feel comfortable voting for someone I don't know myself.

So why don't you educate yourself on the candidates?

As in, not just the national level, but the local candidates that affect your state/city taxes, your parking spots, your zoning rules, what gets built around your area, pollution, etc.?

 

[M.W.]

Don't even joke about it. What if he actually wins the nomination, and then becomes President?

The world would declare war in America.

 

[kirblar]

I mean, does it really matter who gets the nomination. All of the GOP seem absolutely batshit insane. If anyone from GOP get into the whitehouse the world is fucked.

Exactly.

He's just the one that causes the most damage for them. Ted Cruz and others are still nuts.

 

[Krejlooc]

"Troll voting" is a stupid, dangerous concept

 

[internetwolf]

So why don't you educate yourself on the candidates?

As in, not just the national level, but the local candidates that affect your state/city taxes, your parking spots, your zoning rules, what gets built around your area, pollution, etc.?

I can hardly keep up with all these movie, TV, game, music releases I really don't want to add political updates to that list.

 

[TumblingHippo]

Here's a group that trolled and undermined an election.

 

[BertramCooper]

Doesn't this sort of undermine democracy a little?

I don't think you should be voting on the primaries of the party you don't support.

Well, the presidential primary process isn't terribly democratic to begin with.

 

[jmdajr]

Isn't true that no one actually has to give Trump the electoral votes?

I don't think war would have to be declared.

 

[FrontalMonk]

I want Trump to win the primary because he's easy to beat in the general, but I wouldn't actually vote for him. Something about voting across party lines to fuck up their primary seems... unethical.

I did this back in 2008. My folks both put their ballots in the D primary for Obama, I went over to the R line and they looked at me like a crazy person. When we got out I told them that Obama was a shoe in here and they were wasting their vote, but I wanted to make sure McCain won the republican primary because Huckabee was certifiably insane. When all was said and done, Obama took VA in a landslide and McCain took VA by like 1%.

I haven't voted in a primary since, but you bet your ass I'm voting in the 2016 primary, because Trump is a madman. The way I see it, if all your voting choices are bad, you want the least bad choices to be the ones to pick from come election day. The fact is, there are so many wildly racist white folks who actually agree that we should "Make America Great Again" by pushing social issues back a century and bring back internment camps that I don't want to take the chance that the Dems screw the pooch in November.

 

[soul creator]

I can hardly keep up with all these movie, TV, game, music releases I really don't want to add political updates to that list.

lmao

 

[Arthr2ShdsJcksn]

I'll be voting for Trump because I'm afraid he's going to fire me, and a I need my job to pay for my kids, and Jesus and the Bible.

 

[Makai]

Isn't true that no one actually has to give Trump the electoral votes?

I don't think war would have to be declared.

Some don't, but most delegates are pledged to vote for a candidate.

 

[TCRS]

I'll do it

for the memes

 

[jmdajr]

I did this back in 2008. My folks both put their ballots in the D primary for Obama, I went over to the R line and they looked at me like a crazy person. When we got out I told them that Obama was a shoe in here and they were wasting their vote, but I wanted to make sure McCain won the republican primary because Huckabee was certifiably insane. When all was said and done, Obama took VA in a landslide and McCain took VA by like 1%.

I haven't voted in a primary since, but you bet your ass I'm voting in the 2016 primary, because Trump is a madman. The way I see it, if all your voting choices are bad, you want the least bad choices to be the ones to pick from come election day. The fact is, there are so many wildly racist white folks who actually agree that we should "Make America Great Again" by pushing social issues back a century and bring back internment camps that I don't want to take the chance that the Dems screw the pooch in November.

Yup. It's not an insane proposition. I feel like I have to vote against Trump.

 

[reckless]

I did this back in 2008. My folks both put their ballots in the D primary for Obama, I went over to the R line and they looked at me like a crazy person. When we got out I told them that Obama was a shoe in here and they were wasting their vote, but I wanted to make sure McCain won the republican primary because Huckabee was certifiably insane. When all was said and done, Obama took VA in a landslide and McCain took VA by like 1%.

I haven't voted in a primary since, but you bet your ass I'm voting in the 2016 primary, because Trump is a madman. The way I see it, if all your voting choices are bad, you want the least bad choices to be the ones to pick from come election day. The fact is, there are so many wildly racist white folks who actually agree that we should "Make America Great Again" by pushing social issues back a century and bring back internment camps that I don't want to take the chance that the Dems screw the pooch in November.

The problem is your other choices are Carson, Cruz or Rubio. And they are all extremely terrible in their own ways. There is no Romney/McCain this cycle to be the "moderate".

 

[Kajiba]

"Troll voting" is a stupid, dangerous concept

Agree. It's all fun and games now. But we honestly need a good fucking president in the office and really shouldn't be joked around when the time comes to vote.