Talk Elections

One vote, last round, unless there's a tie. Go!

Christie.

[5] Susana Martinez (R)   
[6] Chris Christie (R)
[4] Mitch Daniels (R)
[2] Brian Schweitzer (D)
[1] Russ Feingold (D)
[3] Hillary Clinton (D)

Martinez. And I think it's awesome that she's made it this far.

Schweitzer

[1] Daniels (R)
[2] Christie (R)
[3] Schweitzer (D)
[4] Feingold (D)
[5] Martinez (R)
[6] Clinton (D)

1. Christie
2. Martinez
3. Daniels
4. Schweitzer
5. Clinton
6. Feingold

1. Feingold (D)
2. Clinton (D)
3. Schweitzer (D)
4. Daniels (R)
5. Martinez (R)
6. Christie (R)

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Accidentally voted Hillary; meant to vote for Schweitzer.

I voted for Feingold accidentally- I would pick Hillary out of these. Feingold would be #2.

So it's gonna be Feingold vs. Christie in the final round most likely... interesting. Seeing as this would be the first Presidential election I could vote in, if this were the matchup I'd struggle with who'd I'd vote for.

Schweitzer

This was almost painful. I'm a huge fan of all three democrats left, but in the end I picked Feingold. I have a huge respect for Clinton as SOS, and Schweitzer is gutsy and has a larger than life personality, but ideologically I'm a hardcore progressive and I voted as such.

I'm kinda surprised. She's not all that well known.

Daniels for me.

Brian Schweitzer (D)

Is there gonna be a final round with an R vs. a D?

Possibly. This forum is dominated by liberals and libertarians though so it is difficult to even the playing field ;)

:P

[1] Schweitzer (D)
[2] Feingold (D)
[3] Daniels (R)
[4] Martinez (R)
[5] Clinton (D)
[6] Christie (R)

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Seems like there's twice as many voting for the Dem candidates as the GOP candidates, so you could do a round with two D and one R.

Schweitzer

Until you make up your minds between Chris Christie and Mitch Daniels, the final round will be a choice on which of the three Democrats you find least objectionable (Hillary Clinton is currently running third). 

Schweitzer

Looks like Schweitzer is edging out Feingold for the Democrats... There's a lot of Schweitzer love on this site. He strikes me as wholly appropriate for a forum with so many liberals and libertarians.

He has cross-over appeal too.

[1] Daniels
[2] Christie
[3] Martinez
[4] Schweitzer
[5] Clinton
[6] Feingold

Totally.

If the 2016 race (which, ironically, will be the first POTUS election I can vote in) is between Schweitzer and someone like Rick Santorum, I'll vote Schweitzer in a heartbeat. The field of Republicans for 2016 is really seeming like a bunch that I could happily vote for any one of them.

I'm a foreign policy voter, and Christie's persona, while probably effective in dealing with opponents, is not exactly conductive to diplomacy.

I don't know that much about Schweitzer.

So aside from his vetoing legislation from the Republican legislature in Montana, what makes him popular?

http://www.ontheissues.org/Brian_Schweitzer.htm

Schweitzer's a liberalitarian, and this forum has a lot of liberals and libertarians.

This is interesting.  May shape out to be yet another round where the Martinez and Clinton supporters decide their respective primaries.

So far
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Red-Christie
Blue-Daniels
Light Green- Martinez
Dark Green- Pence

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Green- Feingold
Blue- Schweitzer
Red- Clinton

Schweitzer, so much. He's incredibly good at masking moderate and even liberal positions (the anti-Citizens United rhetoric, attempts to move Montana towards Canadian-style healthcare, demands for BP to clean up after themselves) in populist rhetoric.

If Romney loses 2012, there are a lot of good candidates for 2016. I'd probably support the Republican, but I wouldn't hate the Democrat on the ticket nearly as much as I hate Obama. And I'd like to think it would work the other way, too. Martinez, Christie, and Daniels can't look that terrible to the Democrats here.