Have you ever regretted vote that you voted

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I mean did you ever regretted that you voted on particular politician.


I am a Pole a year ago voted in the presidential elections in my country, but i doesn't like the current president despite the fact that I gave him my vote.
I know that now will be presidential elections in the United States, a country which is regarded as the homeland of modern democracy. I have a question in particular to the Americans, do you thinking to boycott the elections and just not vote at all.

It seems to me that any polican in the world do not care about the voters, they all liars

More resentment than regret I resent having to choose the lesser of evils each and every time.

ruveyn

I regret having once voted for Geezer McCain and Caribou Barbie back in 2008.

I should've voted twice.

I take it you are referring to Sarah of the Frozen North?

ruveyn

The one who can see Russia from her front door? Yepperdoodles!

The probability that any one vote will affect the outcome is extraordinarily slim. There's no reason for regret.

Ahh ... but the guilt, man; the guilt! The horrible, brain-numbing GUILT of it all!

The last statement is generally true, but the people who care most about the honesty of politicians are the ones the politicians most want to stay home on election day, leaving only the corrupt beneficiaries of cronyism and nepotism at the ballot box. Don't give in.

Also remember that just because your choice turned out to be badly, it does not follow that the other candidate would have been better and therefore also does not follow that the choice was necessarily wrong.

In this Ruveyn is quite correct, in the end it is often the lesser of two evils (although as I understand it in Poland you get more choices, since there are more candidates and then a runoff, I sometimes think runoffs might improve America's first-past-the-post system).

If you feel the person you voted for did not meet your basic expectations and the (or a) challenger is able to make a half-decent case they will do better you might even be said to have a duty to go the polls and rectify your (honest and entirely understandable) mistake by holding the incumbent responsible.

Just my opinion though.

I voted for Ralph Nader in 2004. I don't exactly regret the vote itself because while I had no interest in Nader actually being president, I WAS trying to make a larger statement. I was living in a Blue city in a Blue state and I assumed that Kerry would carry the state and my vote for Nader would be a symbolic demonstration of my opinion that our system needs 3rd party candidates and runoff voting.
Kerry DID carry the state, but still didn't win the election. So I only "kind of" regret the decision. It wouldn't have made a difference if I'd voted for Kerry because he did, in fact, win the state. But I do feel like that vote for the 3rd party option and runoff voting was completely ignored.

So basically I regret being ignored.

In answer to the question, nope.

I gladdly voted for Bush in 2004 against Kerry.

I also was happy to vote for McCain/Palin in 2008, and didn't buy into the smearfest directed at Palin, unlike other people here. (Journ'O'list scandal anyone?)

I happily voted in 2010 for Tea Party candidates, and despite my dislike of Romney, I'll happily vote for him over Obama in this election.

I regret that a couple of months after I voted, I got called for federal jury duty at a far-away court.
I'm not voting this time.

Nice thinking, citizen. If you ever get in trouble with the law and need a jury, will you reconsider your attitude?

Or perhaps you don't think trial by jury is necessary.

ruveyn

I don't think jurors should be required to make a 140-mile journey every day for months.

I voted for Bush in 2000 because I was mad as hell at Al Gore. Three words: Low Flow Toilets. I didn't even have a plunger before those damn things.

Nothing like the self-interest of a man that doesn't like low-flow toilets and refuses to pay the taxes required to provide for a water system sufficient to meet demand.

For my part I have only regretted my vote once. A vote for a Liberal party candidate who turned out to be a fundamentalist Roman Catholic nut job. The riding has bounced between the NDP and the Conservatives ever since.

Nope. I voted for who I thought would do the best job at that time. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. No regrets, just won't vote for 'em again.