Don't mean to start a big debate or anything, but...

[Queen Octavia]

I'm Canadian, but I cast my hyopthetical vote for Obama.

When trying to decide I inevitably found lists of all sorts of wishy-washy things that the various candidates support, which is all very nice and fluffy but also rather irrelevant. So I dug a little deeper for the ones that they weren't just jumping on the bandwagon and saying "I am against taking candy from babies" and looking for the things that they were really acting as the catalyst for.

Not only that but I also wanted to try and figure out who they would tug along with them as the assorted influencial appendages of their presidency.

Even still my decision isn't as informed as I think it should be considering the US presidency's huge impact on the future of the world. It's also silly how my hypothetical vote is worth the same amount as someone who knows much less and someone else who knows much more. Ah well, that's democracy, any other method just allows for even more corruption.

If I had to change democracy I would just pick 1001 random people each electoral year, hire them full time at a salary of $1,000,000 for one year, tell them their job is to research the election, candidates etc and have them be the only votes.

I mean come on, statistically a sample of 1001 will produce the same result almost all the time, except this way the votes are all more informed, and election costs go way down.

Somehow I don't think we'll see the change to uberlurk-ocracy any time soon though ;p. Although the system of government presented in the SF novel "Triple Detente" is probably truly ideal, if anyone has read that book.

[AshK]

I like Barack Obamaas President.

[Mitera Nikkou]

Oh, I can vote again?

Nader: since Paul won't make it as a Republican. Obama, Clinton and McCain are jokers.

[Queen Octavia]

Nader and Paul were my second and third choices, respectively. The other candidates I dismissed more or less out of hand based on existing knowledge and a little bit more research.

*Whines about the government in my own country and wishes there was an election happening here*

[Mitera Nikkou]

Kucinich would have been (and had been) my first choice. Darn poll keeps changing as candidates leave and enter. ;/ At the very least I hope Kucinich keeps his seat in congress.

[Queen Octavia]

I just had the random idea that we should arbitrarily divide MSF into two parties and then have primaries and a big election, lol.

Winner is elected president and gets to have an affair with the MSFer of their choice and be impeached in a week

[Mendi-chan]

One last poll update, to only include the candidates who have a legitimate chance to win their parties nomination... and Ralph Nader. ^_^

[Just some lady]

I just had the random idea that we should arbitrarily divide MSF into two parties and then have primaries and a big election, lol.

Winner is elected president and gets to have an affair with the MSFer of their choice and be impeached in a week

[color=violet]Oooh~! ^_^ That sounds like fun!

[Mitera Nikkou]

Define legitimate.

I'm still going to choose Ralph Nader, out of those remaining in this poll.

[Mendi-chan]

Legitimate as in highly plausible, as opposed to very improbable.

[Mitera Nikkou]

That doesn't make it legitimate. What does is the process. The process is prejudiced. At least that seems obvious to me. Either that or the vast majority of the populace are idiots. Lose-lose either way.

[Mendi-chan]

I'd probably say that the later of the two possibilities is true. ^_^

I just had the random idea that we should arbitrarily divide MSF into two parties and then have primaries and a big election, lol.

Winner is elected president and gets to have an affair with the MSFer of their choice and be impeached in a week

That does sound intriguing.

[Mitera Nikkou]

Yeah, but who stands by their side faithfully?

[Mendi-chan]

True enough.

[Helel]

Obama. Still.