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So let me get this straight - you would vote for a guy with a PERFECT pro-abortion voting record over a guy who has a realistic chance of nominating judges who would overrule Roe v. Wade?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a McCain booster by any means. And I certainly appreciate and respect Obama's amazing accomplishments. But I don't want the first black president to be someone with his record. He'll be a disaster for black people everywhere. Right now 36% of the abortions in the United States are to black mothers, and an average of 1,452 black children are aborted every day in the United States. It's my number one issue.

My number two issue is giving people at the lower rungs of the economic ladder an opportunity, which requires there to be jobs for those people. Which in turn means that there has to be investment in business that employs low-skill labor.

I hear what you are saying. When I hear people that are on the McCain train they often point to his military background and thing he would be strong on the war. That's good and all but none of them either consider or look up McCain/Feingold (limiting the first amendment) McCain/Kennedy (an immigration bill that got crushed and McCain accused opposers of being nativists and racists) McCain/Liebermann ( a global warming bill that would cost the U.S. nearly 1 Trillion dollars a year). How is any of this conservative at all? I have read Obama's plans and he has some good ideas or at least his heart is in the right place on some issues but I have done the math on some of his plans. I have no idea where he thinks he is getting the money when the deficit of our country is nearly 50 trillion (look up the interview with the comptroller of the G.A.O for that number.) Okay I'm done.

Ehh, I dunno why you're so down on McCain. He's got a pretty high score from the ACU on being conservative, so I'm not so sure he's going to kill the party. I think people are rallying around him in the same way the Dems got behind Kerry in 04: they think he's the most likely to beat the opposition. Hillary notwithstanding, I think Obama could end up even worse. The difference between those two on the actual issues is that Obama sounds a lot better. When I look at who is endorsing him (everyone is talking about the Kennedy's endorsing him, but the real red flag should be Dennis Kucinich), I get some serious pause. I'm willing to rally around McCain not because he's the best, but I think whoever he'll be facing would really screw this country way more than he ever could.

McCain votes against tax cuts. I don't like that. McCain also lied about Romney with Romney sitting right there. Not a big fan of that. Frankly, I'm not really convinced McCain is all that trustworthy. McCain has also developed a very nasty habit of rubbing everyone's nose in his military history and POW status. As if that makes him better than everyone else. I'm not feeling McCain, but I like him better than Hillary. And I might even like him better than Obama when it comes right down to it.... I guess we'll just have to see.

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You have to thank Huckabee for destroying the possiblity of a religious conservative in the white house. Without Huckabee in the race, Romney had a better chance.

NO WAY would i ever vote for McCain! The dirty tricks played in West Virginia are only a timy sample of the dishonest tactic's he would use everyday in office.
John McCain is an insult to Republicans. A liberal.

Um...why would you vote for either of them? If you don't have good options, it's not immoral to abstain from voting. People act like not voting is a sin. I voted yesterday, but don't expect to vote in November if I don't have a candidate I believe in.

uhm...there is another option...www.writeinfred.com

Ron Paul seems to me to be the only candidate that's for the poeple... the rest are puppets of the powers that be

I love public choice theory.

I will not vote for John McCain, I dont like the double cC...

If it wasn't Paul I wasn't going to vote Republican at all. I would have voted for Hillary over Hunter, Tancredo, or Guliani. McCain is a moderate - conservative. For good libertarians that means he is the ultimate statist. On most charts he scores more statist than Hillary and Obama.
Interestingly, Clinton does better than Barak on most tests, too. But I'll vote for him for the historical significance.

Or I'll vote for the Constitutional party candidate like I did last time. Those white guys scare me though.

These guys are calling McCain much less statist than Romney/Thompson/etc....

Yes Shawn, but still more so that the Democrats. Only Ron Paul scores lower. Of course that quiz's outputs are mostly shaped by the kinds of questions it asks.

nathan...as you're further along in the cult than I am, and may have stopped drinking some of the kool-aid...where do you show up on that graph? I'm about two clicks south of Friedman, which makes me think I'm a kook.

Anthony,

Mitt Romney suspended his bid for the presidency today. Thoughts?

Jeff, we need a strong third party!!

It would appear I'm voting for Ron Paul in WA here in a few days for no reason... ah well.

I'm all for democracy, but it's a bit painful when the average joe doesn't know a damned thing about economics.

kyle...have you listened to econtalk ever? your mention of 'average joe' made me think of one podcast with Mike Munger (duke polisci chair), called 'private vs. public risk-taking'. really great to show why there is not radical change (hope?) to be found in politics, when it is always driven by the median voter (who doesn't know a damn thing about economics, as you mentioned).

Obama currently has the worst voting record in the senate.
Clinton is a liberal disaster as well.
Thankfully, we have another choice, though he's not great. We must choose the lesser of the 3 evils.