11-07-2018, 07:20 PM
Seems like every Presidential election is decided by the few people in the middle considered independents. About a third of the country is Democrat and about a third is Republican and they always vote for their own candidate. Is there anyone out there who could actually draw votes from both parties?
I might have voted for McCain in 2000 because he had that "maverick" reputation of not always following the party line, but by '08 he was just another party lapdog.
Republican John Kasich seems to be a bit more liberal idea on a few policies (health care, immigration, LGBT rights, guns, free trade agreements) but he is still pretty conservative on many other issue like climate change, abortion, education, foreign policy and defense spending.
Republican Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman had some liberal leanings regarding climate change, health care, same sex marriage, and immigration.
Democrat Gary Locke's fiscal policies when he was Governor of Washington were so conservative that he angered many Democrats with his spending cuts. Don't know a lot about his positions on many other issues, but he has a good "story". His grandparents immigrated to US from Chine. His dad was a WWII vet. He was raised in public housing and did not learn English until he was 5 and started school, but he worked his way into Yale. He was Secretary of Commerce under Obama and later Ambassador to China.
I might have voted for McCain in 2000 because he had that "maverick" reputation of not always following the party line, but by '08 he was just another party lapdog.
Republican John Kasich seems to be a bit more liberal idea on a few policies (health care, immigration, LGBT rights, guns, free trade agreements) but he is still pretty conservative on many other issue like climate change, abortion, education, foreign policy and defense spending.
Republican Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman had some liberal leanings regarding climate change, health care, same sex marriage, and immigration.
Democrat Gary Locke's fiscal policies when he was Governor of Washington were so conservative that he angered many Democrats with his spending cuts. Don't know a lot about his positions on many other issues, but he has a good "story". His grandparents immigrated to US from Chine. His dad was a WWII vet. He was raised in public housing and did not learn English until he was 5 and started school, but he worked his way into Yale. He was Secretary of Commerce under Obama and later Ambassador to China.
