Have you ever voted "lesser evil?"

[ZombieHorde]

Voting "lesser evil" means you don't really like either candidate, but one is worse than the other. I have voted "lesser evil" many times in Montana because I don't want the Republicans to win elections.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

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[TDale313]

1. Honestly, guessing most of us have at some point. n/t

[cantbeserious]

2. Every Single Election - It Is Getting Old

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[ZombieHorde]

9. If we filled political positions the traditinal way,

by lot, as opposed to elections, then I think we would be much better represented most of the time.

Not all positions should be filled by lot, but I think this would be perfect for Congress.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

[Orsino]

27. Yep. Except for when I was uninformed or dumb enough to vote for the greater. n/t

[emulatorloo]

3. Of course. No candidate is 100 perfect

[RC]

38. Some are

as perfect examples of how terrible some people/politicians are. A perfect 100% fit sometimes.

[1-Old-Man]

4. I believe that every Democrat I've ever voted for was the lesser evil

The only Democrat I've ever voted for that I did not think was, at heart, a fairly evil man was Jimmy Carter. But every other Politician I ever voted for, and over 99% of them have been Democrats, turned out to be either ineffective or a fraud. To my mind in an elected official either of those failings is cause to call them an evil man (or in some cases women).

[frazzled]

5. Those who see the world only in degrees of evil

seem very sad to me. To do so, it seems one must be clinging to some impossible utopian view that can lead to only one outcome: no one will ever live up to this, and you will be doomed to disappointment, finding ever more "evil" in the world.

I can think of only one instance in my forty-some years of voting of having reluctantly voted for someone on that basis (though I would never refer to it as voting for the lesser evil). It was when I first moved to Illinois and knew I didn't like Blagojevich (this was before all his troubles). I voted in the primary for an opponent, who lost, and then felt I had to vote for him in the general election, as opposed to the Republican. It's the single vote I regret.

[ZombieHorde]

14. "Lesser evil" is a saying, and doesn't really mean the candidate is evil.

It just means neither candidate represents your positions very well.

[frazzled]

15. I'm fully aware of the idiom, but even idioms have semantic implications

Every time I hear it, I cringe.

[ZombieHorde]

18. Fair enough. nt

[Bluenorthwest]

30. If you are going to get all hair splitty about it, I feel compelled to point out that

the OP's question was just 'have you ever voted for the lesser of two evils' meaning ever, in any election. Your response was about people who see the whole world in degrees of evil.
To leap from 'I once voted in an election with no good choices' to 'you see the world in degrees of evil, and that's sad' is absurd, reductive and just odd.
To then claim to be all about the nuances of language is just out of place. Sorry. But I found your response to be mean. It makes you sad?
I had to vote for DiFi. Lesser o' two evils. That should make you sad.

[LuvNewcastle]

6. Ever since the first vote I cast in 1988 for Dukakis.

I did want to vote for Obama in 2008, but by 2012 it was all about the lesser evil. I almost didn't vote in 2012. I live in a very red state, so it wouldn't have made a difference, but I talked myself into it because I didn't want Romney to win the popular vote.

[Flashmann]

7. Have you ever voted "lesser evil?"

Every single time...

[ZombieHorde]

13. Aristotle argued

that elections cause oligarchies, which is why the Athenians filled most political positions by lottery.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

Democracy arose from the idea that those who are equal in any respect are equal absolutely. All are alike free, therefore they claim that all are free absolutely... The next is when the democrats, on the grounds that they are all equal, claim equal participation in everything.

It is accepted as democratic when public offices are allocated by lot; and as oligarchic when they are filled by election.

[Starry Messenger]

8. Every time I vote for Feinstein.

[NV Whino]

21. Gawd I hear that

Last time I just couldn't bring myself to vote for her.

[frylock]

33. i didn't either

[Hell Hath No Fury]

10. Of course.

But less so in my old age. I am in California, so I enjoy leeway from local to national in my voting that too many are not allowed.

[allin99]

11. Don't have to, i live in a very blue state and my local goes blue too.

[ZombieHorde]

12. Nice! I'm glad you feel represented. nt

[NV Whino]

16. Frequently

Just once I would like to vote FOR someone.

[fleur-de-lisa]

17. I am a big fan of the protest vote! - n/t

[olddots]

19. Democrats for for the lesser of evils

Republics ( misspelled on purpose) vote for the most evil of evils

[Warren Stupidity]

20. Every election after 1972.

[hobbit709]

22. My average is about 8 out of 10.

It's getting so that you about have to vote with one hand while holding your nose and carrying a barf bag with the other.

[justiceischeap]

23. Since I'm a lesbian, I'm always voting for the lesser evil. nt

[Comrade Grumpy]

24. Our capitalist duopoly party system makes that inevitable.

I tend to vote for the less batshit crazy wing of the Single Unified Capitalist War Party.

[ZombieHorde]

25. I think the solution is

fill Congress by lottery, like the ancient Athenians.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

[nadinbrzezinski]

26. And I am done

[LuvNewcastle]

28. Me too, Nadine, me too.

[FiveGoodMen]

29. Have you ever had the opportunity to vote anything BUT lesser evil?

[frylock]

31. i don't know that i've ever voted for anybody. i've only ever voted against people..

and yeah, it's grown tiresome.

[Hekate]

32. None of the above. I am accustomed to my favored Dems not making it out of the primaries

But grownups accept that. I've never voted for "evil", lesser or otherwise.

[Notafraidtoo]

34. Some of us get lucky.

We live in areas that are represented by good people, I imagine those that can vote for Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren felt pretty good about it, As for me i get to vote for John Yarmuth and hes a great guy.

[NoPasaran]

35. Pretty much every general election, it beats voting "greater evil"

I sometimes allow myself the luxury of voting on principle in primaries.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

36. In every election save 4. I voted for McGovern and 3rd Party 3 times.

Saves wear and tear on the nose and later regrets.

[datasuspect]

37. evil is evil

there are no gradations.

[Blue_In_AK]

39. Almost every time. n/t