In comments over at Maguire’s place. Is there anyone who voted for McCain regretting their vote? Judging from the polls, I’ll bet there are a lot of Obama voters who are, but I’ll bet you’d search far and wide to find a remorseful McCain (or more likely, Palin) voter. As I’ve noted before, I doubt if there were very many people who voted for John McCain last year. Most of them were either voting against Obama, or for Palin.
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I only regret that I have but one vote to give my country.
Link is busted.
Rand, is the H key on your keyboard sticky? 😉
No, just a sloppy paste.
Happens in my kitchen all the time.
Oh, wait…
I only regret that I have but one vote to give my country.
Ya shoulda joined ACORN.
ACORN will register you twice, but you still only get to vote once.
I’ll bet you’d search far and wide to find a remorseful McCain (or more likely, Palin) voter
No, you wouldn’t have to look far at all. Voters polled in June (click my name for the details) claimed to have voted for Obama over McCain by a 2-1 ratio, far larger the actual vote margin. McCain voters lied to the pollsters, presumably because they wished they had voted for Obama. Maybe they’ve changed their minds since then, and maybe they’ll change their minds again, but the notion that remorse only runs one way is not supported by the facts.
As that article points out, there are many reasons for that poll result, and regret for voting for McCain is only one of them, and there’s no indication (or even knowledge) of how large a portion it is.
They also ignore another potential reason. If I were asked who I voted for, and I had voted Republican, I would have said that I didn’t vote for McCain — I voted for Palin.
I still think it would be much easier to find remorseful Obama voters than McCain voters (and it would have been true in June as well).
Oh balls, Jim. You’ve wholly misinterpreted the Slate article. Are you quite sure your head is firmly attached to your neck? That could be problem with this recurring disconnect between your brain and your mouth.
As the article itself points out, far more people claim to have voted than actually did, and the general belief is that excess Obama numbers come from those who did not actually vote, but who later don’t want to admit that fact — so they claim to have voted, and to have voted, naturally, for the winning candidate.
At least, they do so for a while. If the winning candidate becomes unpopular, it’s possible for the numbers to reverse. Again, from the article, in 2006 a Times poll found that more people claimed to have voted for Kerry in 2004 than Bush, ha ha.
ACORN will register you under as many names as you want, but you still only get to vote once per name.
Fixed.
I voted for Bones Tiberius Spockentribble III so don’t blame me. He knows about health care, he’s cool and sexy, and smart to boot. And he has a really swank pair of furry mutton chops. In fact, I would say that the abject failure of our political class can be directly tied to the decided decline of the mutton chop.
I regretted having to vote for McCain. Does that count, because otherwise, I don’t regret voting for someone most likely to beat out Obama. I happy to say I didn’t vote for McCain in the primary.
My Mom’s neighbors voted for the O.
Bith him and his wife have admitted they are ashamed of their vote and Obama was exactly as I told them he would be.
I’m thinking of having bumper stickers made …
In 2008 a vote for Obama
showed that you weren’t a racist.
In 2012 a vote against Obama
will show that you aren’t stupid.
I was interviewed by USA Today today (no, really) because I’m a former Democrat attending the 9/12 March in Washington on, well, 9/12. I made it clear to the reporter that I voted for McCain, not Obama, but did so reluctantly — not because I was inclined to vote for Obama but because I thought that McCain was the weakest of the possible Republican candidates (well, I take that back — if the GOP had nominated Huckabee, I would have voted for Obama). ..bruce..
Bruce, can you elaborate on that? Because it doesn’t make a lot of sense.
I’m not sorry for voting for McCain, which I must admit is what I did regardless of how you spin it, but then one rarely has reason to be sorry for voting for the one who doesn’t win.
I wrote in Ron Paul, someone I actually believed in for the most part. I’m proud of that, because it takes the guesswork out of things for the Republicans. Next election cycle, the Republican party will know exactly what direction they need to head in order to get my vote. They won’t have to waste their time finding a rock star version of McCain, or a candidate even more to the left on their idiotic one-axis scale, because they know already that I won’t care. Reluctantly voting for the lesser of two evils is the definition of throwing your vote away.
Leland wrote what I was going to write, almost word-for-word.
Put me with Leland. I regret voting for McCain like I regret putting down a pet. Not happy to have done it, but in the same situation I would do the same thing again, or even knowing what I know now. My opinion certainly hasn’t changed since I voted.
P.S. I would have given serious though to voting for Hillary Clinton over McCain, had that been the choice. Vs. Obama it was a no brainer.