If the last three posters were running for POTUS who would you vote for and why?

[Leinad]

Goldwater. In line with me on lots of domestic issues, despite our foreign policy differences.

Edit: I guess lean Virginia for 2nd preference, although I don't know everything about both of your policies.

[Leinad]

Goldwater. In line with me on lots of domestic issues, despite our foreign policy differences.

Edit: I guess lean Virginia for 2nd preference, although I don't know everything about both of your policies.

Well domestic policy-wise, Sanders actually represents a significant portion of my views. A dramatically expanded offering of social programs (free public college tuition, singleplayer/universal healthcare, paid sick leave, campaign finance reform, voting/civil rights expansion, massive infrastructure expansion/rebuilding, etc), increased taxes on wealthy, closing corporate tax loopholes, Wall St speculative taxes, and so on.

Foreign policy-wise, I can't say how I compare to Sanders because his FP seems opaque. I'm anti-war and believe we should stay out of other countries affairs unless absolutely necessary.

Social policy - Pro-gay marriage, pro-choice, etc. Heavily identify with socially liberal/Democratic policies on that.

So if you're a Libertarian, sadly, I'm probably on the complete opposite side of a lot of your views

#VIRGINIA2020

Well, I was meaning more relative to MohamedChalid, another Hillary backer. It's like choosing one type of celery over another--I'd rather have a different food, and am by no means an expert on celery, but I'm sure I could choose my favorite type of celery (...are there multiple types of celery? Let's assume there are...) if I knew the nuanced differences.

I'm quite similar to you on foreign policy, and social policy (social libertarianism is not social liberalism, but they're closer to each other than social conservatism, even when you add my "conservative" stance on abortion). Economic policy? Not so much.


Hmmm...three posters I like despite their ideology ...

1. Virginia
2. Kalwejt
3. MormDem

Again, the differences are nuanced and on another day I could give this a different order. Liberal, socialist, and communitarian--none my cup of tea ideologically, but I could find common ground with all 3 of them (such as foreign policy with AFAIK all of them, abortion with MormDem, and other social issues with the other two).

(However, if Kalwejt's Official White House Press Releases are as good as his recent works of fiction on the Forum Community board, I'd have to vote for him, despite his ineligibility for the office.)

[Leinad]

1. Smith (more moderate than me on economic issues, but outside of that he's not too far off. Perhaps in the area in between leftists and libertarians--an area much too quiet.)

T2. The D-VAs with -E and +S PM scores. Hard to determine without detailed policy positions.

[Leinad]

1. ElectionsGuy
2. Higgs
3. Kingpoleon

ElectionsGuy might be the closest to me on the forum politically, while the other two are more moderate, but not that bad overall.

[Leinad]

1. Spiral
2. Kingpoleon
3. New Canadaland

[Leinad]

Probably:

1. Higgs
2. Kingpoleon
3. RFayette

[Leinad]

1. RFayette (not entirely sure where he is since his religious moderation, but I'm presuming he's somewhere near Kasich)
2. Kalwejt (sort of like Bernie--hope Congress reins him in economically but he can still keep us out of wars and reform the criminal justice system)
3. beaver 2.0

[Leinad]

1. Kingpoleon
2. ExtremeRepublican
3. LD Smith

[Leinad]

1. Kingpoleon
2. Computer
3. Southern Gothic

It's a close one. If any of them were running in real life I would neither support them nor create a "#Never[Candidate]" movement around them. Moderates, you know? Meh.

[Leinad]

1. Kingpoleon
2. Derpist
3. Beaver (although I'd consider voting for him if he used "Leave it to Beaver" as his slogan)

[Leinad]

1. cxs018
2. Kingpoleon
3. Darth E-Bear

[Leinad]

1. ClarkKent
2. Kingpoleon
3. MormDem (if only I could combine his foreign policy with Clark's domestic policy...)

Wow, three socon Southern Democrats...

Yeah, there are a lot of those on the forum nowadays, it seems.

[Leinad]

1. ElectionsGuy (with enthusiasm)
2. RR1997
3. Kingpoleon

[Leinad]

1. CXSmith
2. Intell
3. Turkisblau

[Leinad]

Easily Goldwater.

[Leinad]

1. Goldwater
2. Peebs
3. Bagelman

[Leinad]

1 Goldwater
2 LDS
3 ExtremeRepublican