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meadowlark5

(2,795 posts)
2. I keep seeing "I'm more disturbed by Hillary's actions than Trump's words"
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 06:52 PM
Oct 2016

There is a lot of people who are still behind him 100%. I think the RNC is in a pickle because if they somehow get him to drop out, the deplorables will know it was coerced and they will rebel by not voting or even revolting in the streets.

They're screwed no matter what happens.

mucifer

(23,548 posts)
3. She could vote for Johnson, Stein or a write in. All of that wouldn't hurt us
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 06:53 PM
Oct 2016

if she was planning on voting trump before.

Well maybe the downticket races.

mucifer

(23,548 posts)
5. I feel like that is their game not ours. We shouldn't encourage that.
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 06:59 PM
Oct 2016

Everyone should vote even if we don't agree with their choices.

ronnie624

(5,764 posts)
10. The "game" belongs to all of us.
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 07:29 PM
Oct 2016

If there are fewer Republicans voting as a result of this, all the better for American society.

Hekate

(90,710 posts)
12. Sorry, but no. We're all better off if Trump's base stays home.
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 07:46 PM
Oct 2016

I lost your point of view somewhere about Newt Gingrich's ascent.

ProudToBeBlueInRhody

(16,399 posts)
13. Really?
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 08:06 PM
Oct 2016

People should not vote if they are ignorant or uninformed. Just pulling a lever "because you should" is dumb.

stage left

(2,962 posts)
15. I don't actively discourage Republicans or Trump supporters from voting.
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 02:13 PM
Oct 2016

I don't know where you live, but living in a red state, as I do, that might be dangerous. Down here you have to think twice before putting a sign for a Democratic candidate in your yard or putting a bumper sticker on your car. It can get your yard rolled. It can get your car keyed. Or worse.

I don't actively encourage them either. I rather hope the guys driving around like they own the country, with huge confederate flags flying from their trucks will forget what day the election is. The same goes for the people who sport those Hillary for Prison stickers. And the ones who call black people...well you know what they call black people...and expect me to be all right with that since I'm from the same place they are. Of course, they're just joking, don't you know? Some of their best friends are black.

I won't be too unhappy either if the men who hold the same sexually entitled attitude toward women that Trump has expressed don't bother with the ballot box. Or the ignorant women who do whatever their men say. Or the people who vote Republican because their parents do. Or the fanatical Christians who want to take us all back to the dark ages. No. I won't tell them not to vote or even suggest it. But I won't help them any, and if they don't vote I won't be sorry. The more of them who don't vote, the better for the rest of us, and for them as well.

 

Drunken Irishman

(34,857 posts)
6. If she was a Trump supporter, her voting third party or not voting helps.
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 07:00 PM
Oct 2016

Trump losing voters still gets Hillary to White House.

I could see a scenario where Hillary grabs like 45% of the popular vote and the rest is divided up between Trump and Johnson.

 

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
7. Doesn't matter what conservatives do.,the voters trump needed will
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 07:01 PM
Oct 2016

Absolutely not vote for him....college educated white women especially after trump spews his hate on Hillary Sunday night....that will be the end of trump and the GOP....

salin

(48,955 posts)
8. tell her about the write in McMullin (sp?) effort
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 07:04 PM
Oct 2016

the independent conservative guy. Gives her a place to go that is NOT a vote for trump.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)
9. This is where the massive RW Propaganda Campaign
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 07:07 PM
Oct 2016

proves itself worthy of all the time and effort expended on its behalf.

Their extensive and successful efforts to maliciously smear everyone to the left of Archie Bunker with a vast array of lies and innuendo allows some of the more thoroughly brainwashed citizenry to believe any Democrat, particularly Hillary, on whom much RWPM energy has been focused, must be defeated.

Oh, and their effective efforts to promote melodrama over reason comes in handy, as well.

Hekate

(90,710 posts)
11. Express sympathy and encourage her to stay home....
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 07:43 PM
Oct 2016

Those down-ballot candidates don't need her help, do they?

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