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U.S. Chat: Have you and your friends/relatives decided how they'll vote? Would different candidates matter? (self.politics)

submitted 4 months ago by memfree to c/politics

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I'm trying to figure out if anyone would change their vote if there were different candidates, and what sorts of people fall into which categories: Always a D or R, depends on the situation/person (let us know what matters), sitting this one out, used to sit out but voting this time, or other (please explain). More than just the people here, I'm curious about any other people who you know vote in particular ways.

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[–] t3rmit3 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I know at least 3 friends who are not voting for Biden, over Gaza. My guess is they all abstain entirely. They probably won't matter, because they're in California.

I know several "closet-Conservatives" (working in tech, that's pretty common) who seem to be split pretty evenly on whether Trump is a positive or negative to them, but only one has expressed interest in a specific non-Trump candidate, which was Ramaswamy (and in 2016, Yang). 2 of them moved to Texas from California, over the past presidential term.

Family member-wise, most of them- sadly- are Trumpers, and not malleable. They're pretty geographically-dispersed.

The exceptions are my and my partner's dads, who are never-Trumper Republicans, who both voted Blue in 2016. They both consider themselves "Eisenhower Republicans" (smdh). They'd both switch back to voting Red with a non-Trump candidate.