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« on: August 16, 2005, 05:37:29 PM »
For example, you may have voted for Bush and supported him in the campaigns but maybe now you regret doing so and wish he never was in office. Do you feel "betrayed" by a politician this way?
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« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2005, 05:38:57 PM »
Not that I can think of (yet).
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« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2005, 05:40:51 PM »
I have only voted twice, and a total of 7 candidates. When I get more input I'll let you know! Tongue
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« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2005, 05:44:13 PM »
I can't vote but if I could have last year, I would have voted for Specter for Senate (even though I think he's a RINO and fully supported Toomey in the primary). Looking back on it, I would have supported Jim Clymer (Constitution party candidate) or would not have voted in that race.
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« Reply #4 on: August 16, 2005, 05:50:04 PM »
Judd Gregg, although it didn't really matter because he was facing a novelty candidate (Granny D). Still, out of principle I shouldn't have voted for him.
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« Reply #5 on: August 16, 2005, 05:58:24 PM »
No, not really.
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« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2005, 06:00:09 PM »
Can't vote, but I do regret voting for my former Vice-President in the student government elections last year.
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« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2005, 07:42:13 PM »
I don't think I regret voting for somebody who won.

Even when some people I have voted for who have won have not lived up to my expectations, I still think they were better than the alternative.
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« Reply #8 on: August 16, 2005, 08:40:33 PM »
Yes.  Big time.  Twice.
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« Reply #9 on: August 16, 2005, 08:56:43 PM »
I voted for McCain the first year he ran for the United States Senate.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!
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« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2005, 09:01:25 PM »

Who?
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« Reply #11 on: August 16, 2005, 09:08:44 PM »

Bush.  It wasn't until a few months after the last election that I was finally willing to face reality.

Whoever I vote for wins.  I need to be more responsible.
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« Reply #12 on: August 16, 2005, 09:20:50 PM »
Not in the way you mentioned.   I sort of regret supporting Bush Sr., not because of anything he did (he was brilliant at foriegn policy), but because it paved the way for his son who is IMO one of the worst presidents in American history. (Combining coruption of the Grant administration, the power grabbing imperial presidency of Nixon, Johnson's tendency to micromanage war [which some of his aids do - despite being versed in ideology rather than warfare], and the inspirational value of Carter.
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« Reply #13 on: August 16, 2005, 09:55:13 PM »
Quote from: William Jennings Beef on August 16, 2005, 09:08:44 PM

Bush.  It wasn't until a few months after the last election that I was finally willing to face reality.

Whoever I vote for wins.  I need to be more responsible.

I remember now that you were a lukewarm Bush supporter last year.  I also voted for Bush twice but I don't regret it, though I'm a bit disappointed with the way things are going right now.  But I still think the alternative would be worse.

What is the reality that you have faced, that you didn't see before?
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« Reply #14 on: August 16, 2005, 10:10:17 PM »
He didn't become a communist until just recently.
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« Reply #15 on: August 16, 2005, 10:23:35 PM »
i voted for jesse helms back in 96.
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« Reply #16 on: August 17, 2005, 01:23:07 AM »
Quote from: A18 on August 16, 2005, 10:10:17 PM
He didn't become a communist until just recently.
WTF??
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« Reply #17 on: August 17, 2005, 02:14:55 AM »
Quote from: dazzleman on August 16, 2005, 09:55:13 PM
I remember now that you were a lukewarm Bush supporter last year.  I also voted for Bush twice but I don't regret it, though I'm a bit disappointed with the way things are going right now.  But I still think the alternative would be worse.

That's exactly how I feel except I couldn't vote Wink
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« Reply #18 on: August 17, 2005, 08:21:31 AM »
Quote from: dazzleman on August 16, 2005, 09:55:13 PM

What is the reality that you have faced, that you didn't see before?

That we have been dragged into a war that is not justified and was extremely badly thought out, and we have an administration that continually sacrifices the truth to cover up for its own mistakes.

Had his opponent been someone other than Kerry...
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« Reply #19 on: August 17, 2005, 11:00:56 AM »
When Clinton became Mr. School Uniform, I regretted having voted for him earlier.
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« Reply #20 on: August 17, 2005, 07:38:04 PM »
Jimmy Carter 1976.

It was the first time I was old enough to vote. A truly sad chapter in my life.
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« Reply #21 on: August 19, 2005, 02:40:21 AM »
Bush '00
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« Reply #22 on: August 19, 2005, 11:38:45 PM »
Quote from: 4mrlrkr on August 19, 2005, 11:34:12 PM
yes, i should have voted for kerry last fall

And you would have regretted voting for him then, right? Smiley
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« Reply #23 on: August 20, 2005, 06:00:00 AM »
Quote from: TX_1824 on August 17, 2005, 07:38:04 PM
Jimmy Carter 1976.

It was the first time I was old enough to vote. A truly sad chapter in my life.

Luckily, I was saved from the indignity of voting for Carter in 1976 by the fact that I was too young to vote.  I'm not sure whom I would have voted for that year, but I would surely have regretted it if I had voted for the arrogant, naive, self-righteous and incompetent old scold.

By 1980, when I voted for the first time, we had been through four years of Carter, and I couldn't wait to vote against him.  That started me on a Republican voting streak that continues to this day.
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« Reply #24 on: August 20, 2005, 11:31:54 AM »
No, I don't regret voting for Kerry.
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