As you go to the polls, don't blame the candidates for how their supporters behaved

Today is the big day for so many of us. We've really had quite a number of dustups over the last few weeks. I take that back. We've had one long continuous dustup. Well, not actually. More like we've had one long broken bottle bar brawl!

A lot of nasty behavior has been exhibited by both sides. There have also been a huge number of posts that say, in effect, I would never vote for Hillary/Obama because of the way her/his supporters behaved.

While a lot of bad behavior will be forgiven and forgotten, I just want to remind everyone that this last rhetorical flourish is pretty silly. Unless you think Hillary and Obama or their campaign organizations issue marching orders to DUers as to how nasty to be on General Discussion: Primaries, then how their supporters behaved here has nothing to do with the candidates.

I am obviously an Obama supporter and have problems with the way Hillary's supporters behaved (and you may be the converse), but I am sure not going to blame Hillary for the way Hillary's DU supporters behaved! I'm also not going to blame Obama for the way Obama's DU supporters behaved!

I suppose many of us already have our minds made up, so this really goes out to the undecideds:

Neither Obama nor Hillary are responsible for the way their supporters behaved on DU over the last few weeks. Vote your conscience, your economic interests, your hopes and your aspirations -- not on the basis of a DU grudgefest!

Now go out and enjoy the vote!

None of the Above is not an option. /sigh

Sitting out the general election against the Repugs is a different, more controversial story.

I'm tired of having to hold my nose and vote for what I consider to be the lesser evil.

I want someone I can truly believe in.

Maybe next election.

..and I think it carries over. While Obama supporters haven't been angels on here by any means, the ones that have been bad and more nasty seem in more of a contrast to Obama himself who seems to have taken more of a high road (although no angel himself) and Hillary.

Personally I just get the same sense of entitlement and "How dare I be challenged! I earned this!" from HRC as I do her supporters on here.

I'm sitting out the primary because they both leave me cold as candidates. But I'm sorry I just see the tone of HRC and the tone of her supporters as being too similar to discount.

And yes me feeling this way obviously means I'm a stealth Obama supporter/republican/sexist/mysoginist/troll/etc. so spare me the invective.

you can't really blame her for it. And as I've said, I don't support HRC.

Maybe I'm trying to be generous because election days always put me in a good mood!

but obviously not.

Fortunately, even the reasonable majority of DUers represents only a tiny fraction of Dem/progressive voters, so the vocal minority here is barely perceptible beyond the walls of GDP.

I'm voting for a Democrat in November.
We're electing a Democrat in November.
We must defeat the GOP in November.
That's the bottom line.

K&R.

and definitely made us want to be better people. Makes you wonder what drives other candidates' supporters? Money? Polls? Celebrities? Meh.

but everywhere.

We aren't the candidate- they have no control over their followers positively or negatively.

peace~