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MineralMan

(146,262 posts)
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 10:37 AM Oct 2016

Can't vote for Trump? Don't like Hillary? Stay home!

There's your solution, you undecided and conflicted folks. Just stay home on election day. Pay no attention to those down-ticket races. They don't really matter, now, do they? I know...you're a Republican....it's OK. Nobody is required to vote in the United States. It's OK if you stay home. Take your kids to the park. Walk the dogs.

Take a break on election day. You don't really have to make a decision. Just stay home. Send the message that says, "Want my vote? Show me a decent candidate."

Republicans? Just stay home. That'll show the party you mean business...

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sarae

(3,284 posts)
2. Agreed.
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 10:42 AM
Oct 2016

And the best way for pissed off Trumpeters to stick it to the establishment is to stay home. After all, if the election is rigged, why bother voting?

ffr

(22,665 posts)
3. I prefer it when they do vote. It defines them for the values they support.
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 10:43 AM
Oct 2016
And I can use that to brand them for the rest of their lives.

MineralMan

(146,262 posts)
9. Republicans who do not vote help us in down-ticket races.
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 10:59 AM
Oct 2016

My focus is on outcomes, not branding.

Arkansas Granny

(31,507 posts)
4. I have had 3 die hard Republicans admit to me that they just can't vote for Trump.
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 10:49 AM
Oct 2016

I'm pretty certain they won't vote for Hillary either, but that's 3 fewer votes for Trump. They will probably vote on the down-ticket races, however. We have medical marijuana on the ballot this year and they are dead set against it.

I've let them know that I'm very pleased with my candidate.

whatthehey

(3,660 posts)
5. And yet it's not all that unusual
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 10:50 AM
Oct 2016

to see that exact action espoused here for left leaning voters who find Clinton doesn't "inspire" them, as if we need the 10th muse to teach us the basis on which to make the choice whether a competent center-left global politician or a lunatic apricot bigot with all the personal self-restraint of a toddler gets the keys to a multi-trillion budget, the NSA, the final arbiters of US justice, and the nuclear codes.



 

randome

(34,845 posts)
6. Guess what? 'Republican' is about to be an even more embarrassing term than 'Liberal' once was.
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 10:53 AM
Oct 2016

I don't think the GOP can recover from Trump in the long term.
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femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
8. That is what I have been telling them, too.
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 10:59 AM
Oct 2016

But if you don't vote, you lose the right to complain later.

awake

(3,226 posts)
10. It would be great if Trump supporters who hate Paul Ryan would all stay home
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 11:05 AM
Oct 2016

Can we start a movement among Trump people to show the GOP how "strong" they are by not voting down ticket letting the GOP know that they mean business about changing Washington.

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