Forget Hillary. Also forget Bernie. If you are voting for a person, frankly, you're doing it wrong.

[TalkingDog]

This isn't a high school football rivalry. This is about people's lives.

Vote policy or don't vote.

[cali]

1. not so. i vote on history, character and policy proposals.

[randome]

3. CALI IS BACK!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen, Anthem (1992)[/center][/font][hr]

[First Speaker]

7. Good to see you...:-)

[bigwillq]

9. Hi, cali.

[ms liberty]

11. So happy to see you back!

[HassleCat]

2. Not entirely.

It's great to examine policy, but you have to look at a person and ask yourself, "Is this candidate the type of person who keeps promises, sticks to principles, doesn't waffle or weaken in the face of opposition, etc.?"

[-none]

4. I vote for the person.

Therefore I am doing correctly. Voting for the party is part of the reason we are in this mess. Both parties have gone off course.

[Hortensis]

12. I always vote issues. Of course, that means

choosing the candidate whom I feel is my own best means for achieving my goals.

[-none]

13. That is what voting for the person means

That is why I am for Bernie. A candidate with actual Democratic values, not corporate values..

[Hortensis]

14. Although I know what you mean, there probably

is a difference in our approaches. Yes, it's about our values, our principles, our hopes for our state and nation, our issues and goals.

But people like me don't have heroes, we don't follow leaders, and we'd drop even a candidate we really admired for someone else if that new person was newly seen as the best choice to achieve our goals.

When people like me say the election is about the issues and has never been about Sanders or Clinton, we mean it. When I say I'm a progressive liberal today, you can bet I'll be a progressive liberal next decade, no matter who won or lost any of the elections or a neofascist conservative government made it very unwise to admit it.

[floriduck]

5. Character and integrity matter when policy is weighed. That's where Sanders gets it.

[thesquanderer]

6. Or vote for who you think will more easily beat Trump in November. (n/t)

[egalitegirl]

8. In which case, all of us have to vote for Bernie's policies

If we followed this advice, we have to oppose wars, corporatism, alliances with the Bush family and the Military Industrial Complex. This means none of us should vote for Hillary's policies.

[Lizzie Poppet]

10. I disagree.

Policy is the priority, but "character matters," as they say. Prior policy positions cannot possibly cover every situation a president faces. An honest assessment of the candidate's character is an important part of a voter's decision making process, I'd argue.