Would you consider not voting for either Presidential candidate, but rather for other federal offices, state and local issues, etc?

no. Everyone must use their vote, even if you feel it is thebetter of two poor choices.

I support your right to vote for, or not vote for whomever you please. I however am quite happy that I have the ability to vote for Obama.

I wouldn’t, but if someone truly felt that way, I’d encourage them to vote their conscience on the other issues that were important to them.

Of course, there are more than two presidential candidates.

Some people are doing this by accident. I read an article in the Washington Post a few days ago that some states (I think NC was one of them) have ballots that you can cast along party lines, BUT these options do not check the presidential choices. As a result many people who have already voted basically got the shaft. THAT kinda pisses me off.

If you do it by choice however, more power to you. You have a right to think and do as you please, and so do I. I think you’re wasting a perfectly good chance to make something count in the world.

I would never consider not voting for a presidential candidate on my ballot.

yes, it is NC. If Obama loses NC by less than 50,000 votes, we’ll know this was the problem. But better to have it happen this year when Obama will win no matter what (i.e. there will be an outcry to fix it, but it won’t affect the election), than to have it be another Ohio or Florida.

@dalepetrie: I was so embarassed by Florida, I had just moved out of there that year. It was shameful. :-P

Thanks for confirming my information, I did a quick google search but sadly I couldn’t remember the term they used for those ballots, so I had very little luck. Though a surprising number of hot dog related stories were brought back….wtf?

I think it’s called “straight-ticket”. You can vote a straight ticket by just picking Democrat or Republican, but if you do that, you have to pick the President separately. A lot of voter organizations who are getting out the vote are taking steps to make sure people know that, and polling workers are often reminding people as well. Sucks, but I think Obama will still win NC.

As for Fla, no shame in being cheated. That was outright election theft. Read “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy” by Greg Palast if you want to know the whole story of how 156,000 net Democrat voters were turned away (in an election decided by a couple hundred votes). Not much you can do when the Governor is the cheater’s brother and the Secretary of State is the cheater’s state campaign chair.

@dalepetrie: Yes! That’s the name of the thingamwhatsit. But I know they used another name for when it was incomplete, damn. I wish I could remember, the paper is in my car, I might have to go grab it and peruse.

The shame I was referring to was caused by the state government – that sucked. The people were cheated, yes, and that was unfortunate. But the government let us down.

We have several important propositions on our ballot for Arizona in November and I am much more interested in them than the two lackluster candidates we have running for president.

There is a huge temptation to just avoid casting a vote for a presidential candidate and instead vote for everything else. Still, I’m going to do both because somehow I still believe, a little bit, that my vote actually does make a difference in the presidential ballot.

I will always vote for President of the United States. My first vote for President was for George H. W. Bush in Nov. 1988 while serving in the military. I know how important it is to a soldier to elect a President who supports his troops.

When I hear people saying they are not voting because they don’t like either one, I point out they should vote on the propositions whih become laws that can change our lives. This year we have over 3 doz including gay civil rights, parental notification, affordable housing and whether the City should take over the public utilities.

I have always voted for President, even when I felt it was a case of the lesser of two evils. In this election, I was quite happy to vote for Obama.

Though I think we should all TRY to come to a decision in the Presidential race, I agree that if you can’t, it is better to go to the polls and vote for candidates in the other races, and to vote on the propositions. There are a lot of other important things being decided on Election Day besides the Presidency.

I think people need to start paying more attention to the primaries, rather than just the general election. Majority of the people in this country, dont pay full attention to the primaries, when they actually have many choices. It always ends up being which of the lesser of the 2 evils to vote for. But like tabbycat said, other elected officials are being voted in, many of which have a more direct affect on us than the President.

I have considered not voting for the President, but I will be voting for the Constitution Party candidate, Chuck Baldwin.