Poll for everyone but I'm particularly interested in republican replies

Do you plan to watch the democratic debates?
Please be sure to indicate whether you stand on the right or the left.

 

I voted yes but only watching Thursday's, Bernie and Biden is where it's at.

 

What's the point? DNC primaries are fixed anyway...

 

I'd watch it but my wife hates politics and spending time with her is more important.

 

I don't think you set the poll up in the best way to get what you want. That said, I answered "no" and I stand on the right. I already know that I'm not voting for any of the democratic candidates in either a primary or the general.

A better way to set it up would have been with the following choices:

• Yes, and I'm on the right.
• Yes, and I'm on the left.
• No, and I'm on the right.
• No, and I'm on the left.
• Yes, but I have some special circumstances that I will explain.
• No, but I have some special circumstances that I will explain.

Not sure what your other two questions were about. They were kind of nonsense, especially the last question.

 

So far the anointed is Biden. If he has a humiliating evening, I would not be surprised if the DNC switches him for another, anoints that person, and the MSM, deep state, our public schools, etc. will follow suit. So, it's worth watching the reports/clips tomorrow to see just how badly he does. He and the fake Indian, I think, are going to do badly. But they all suck so badly. Except Tulsi. I'm not sure if she's even in round 1.

 

What do you think debates are for?

 

No. You didn't offer separate choices for left and right, just one for both, which essentially covers everyone except the centrists. Since I'm not going to vote for a Democrat, anyway, and I'm certainly not going to vote in the Democratic primary, what's the point?

 

Trying to be honest with you, Kode, even though we're on "opposite sides" on nearly everything. BTW, I'm more Libertarian than anything else -- and, I formally quit the Republican Party almost two years ago because I became so infuriated with RINO's who had turned the Republican Party into a disgusting, depressing pile of gutless 'wanna-be, half-liberal ' sh!t....

No, I'm not going to watch the Democrat 'circle-jerk' tonight, BUT -- I will be watching Democrats carefully starting next winter. By then, they'll have gotten rid at least half their number of candidates, and it will be possible to make some sense of whether or not the Democrat Party is really as GUT-BUCKET AWFUL as it seems today....

 

Heh, same. I quit the Republican Party in 2016 when Trump won the nomination, and their complete failure to accomplish anything of conservative value in the two years they had the House & Senate & Presidency, including defunding Planned Parenthood, convinced me that the Republican Party isn't worth two cents.

 

Maybe it would be good to know your opponent, but you seem like the other righties here, afraid you might like something you would hear. And that would be very disloyal.

 

I don't have a problem with disloyalty. As I noted in the post directly above yours, I left the Republican Party in 2016. I criticize the Republicans often and loudly. I pay enough attention to the political news to know who stands for what. I don't need to listen to Democrats spout their lies and their far-left lunacy. I've stopped listening to the Republicans spout their lies since they've shown they don't follow through. I disagree with Republicans' professed policies on a few issues and with Trump and the RINOs' actual policies on a LOT of issues. So no, I'm not not listening to the Democrats because I might like something I'd hear, I'm not listening to the Democrats because I already know what they're going to say, and all of it is wrong wrong wrong.

I've never voted for a Democrat, but I can tell you specifically of a time when I would have. When I lived in Rhode Island, the Massachusetts governor's race was between liberal Republican William Weld and conservative Democrat John Silber. How a conservative won the nomination of the Democratic party in uber-liberal Massachusetts, I'll never know, but I would have voted for Silber in that election. Weld won, by the way, the first Republican governor in 20 years, because he was to Silber's left.

 

I would hope, not to create an "anointed." But they do have their uses.

 

Well, "anointed" is a term of opprobrium but debates are intended to eliminate contenders and narrow the field. So the objection is absurd.

 

No point in watching, for me.

I will never vote for a Democrat, unless he clearly and convincingly renounces the strategies of hate, division, and character assassination.

The only candidate that I'm interested in is Gabbard. I listen to her every chance that I get. I won't put up with having to hear all of the clown show troupe in order to hear her, though.

If she was an independent, who caucused with the Republicans, I'd vote for her in a heartbeat.

 

Though I am no longer Republican, I see no point in viewing debates at this point as it is far too early and nothing of actual consequennce will be said.

 

Haaahahahahaaa!

Moderator Chuck Todd was on the panel half as long as the ten candidates. Yet he came in fourth in words spoken. Rachel Maddow came in ninth. Lester Holt came in eleventh. Jay Inslee came in last, among the candidates, at thirteenth.



https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/first-2020-democratic-debate-night-1/

 

I'm going to wait until they are down to 5 or so. Too much noise, not enough signal in this huge field.

 

I'll just wait and get the best of the comedy routines on Fox News.

 

My objection is to the results of the debate: that there are those with a lot of power that will try to tell the people, "this is who you will vote for" . They have a right to their opinon but any process that foisted Hilary Clinton on an electorate that desperately would have wanted anyone else is flawed.

 

Missed the first one but watched the second. I would say it was a free for all with the emphasis on free. Not one question on the debt or deficit or how they would pay for their extravagance except for one question to Yang which he replied with enough funding for less than one third of his plan to give everyone 1K a month.

 

I did, and was really disappointed with the second night. To me, no one came out in front in the same way Castro did in the first night.

 

1. There are more ways to stand than right or left. Let's not be childish here...
2. I stand middle right/libertarian (feel free to ask me to clarify why if you don't know what that means)
3. I watched the clown show both nights and it was hilarious! Poor biden got eaten alive by a socialist and I couldn't stop laughing

 

There over and no, I didn't watch any of them. I've known for quite awhile whom I would support and whom I wouldn't against Trump among those I know fairly well. The remaining five or six or so, I don't expect any of them to last long. If they do, there's plenty of time to do some research.

The three I like the most will probably not be around come December or January. Then there some I would choose over Trump and a few I wouldn't. Those I wouldn't means I'll would vote third party again as I did in 2016, I know already I won't be voting for Trump. So we'll see how all of this plays out.

For me candidates matter. I'll just say this, 2020 is an election for the Democrats to lose, but then again, so too was 2016. One can only hope the Democrats learned that lesson from 2016, candidates matter. Candidates matter especially to independents, the non-affiliated. Not so much to the major parties as history shows that on average 90% of Republicans and Democrats vote for their party's candidate regardless of who that candidate is. Independents, the non-affiliated are all over the place. Candidates matter. Just remember, Trump is president because he won the independent vote. Yet 12% of independents voted third party against both Trump and Clinton. A total of 9 million voters cast their ballot for third party candidates in 2016. So we'll see whom the democrats finally come up with.

 

Julián Castro: "Nobody has called for open borders. That's just a right-wing talking point."

1. You don’t want a wall
2. You don’t want to detain crossers
3. You want amnesty for everyone here
4. You don’t want any deportations