Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 3 days agoDo most Americans vote just based on name recognizing without any thinking of the platform? Or pigeon hole a candidate to one issue and vote for them? Even if that issue is way against beliefs?message-squaremessage-square57linkfedilinkarrow-up178arrow-down115
arrow-up163arrow-down1message-squareDo most Americans vote just based on name recognizing without any thinking of the platform? Or pigeon hole a candidate to one issue and vote for them? Even if that issue is way against beliefs?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square57linkfedilink
minus-squareRBWells@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·3 days agoHonestly I generally vote against, not for. There is not usually anyone I feel really good about voting for. So I vote defensively. It hasn’t worked lately.
minus-squarearamis87@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up10·3 days agoYou vote for the person you want in office in the primaries, and you vote against the person you don’t want in office in the generals.
minus-squareFondots@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 days agoI registered Republican to vote in their primaries It’s gonna be a cold day in hell before I vote for one in the generals But I’m hopeful that I can try to head off the worst of the crazies in the primaries before it gets to the general
Honestly I generally vote against, not for. There is not usually anyone I feel really good about voting for. So I vote defensively. It hasn’t worked lately.
You vote for the person you want in office in the primaries, and you vote against the person you don’t want in office in the generals.
I registered Republican to vote in their primaries
It’s gonna be a cold day in hell before I vote for one in the generals
But I’m hopeful that I can try to head off the worst of the crazies in the primaries before it gets to the general