Do you look down on voters who vote for a candidate more on the basis of faith and morality, and the candidates similarities there, rather than economics interests and living conditions?

Yes, cause its stupid most of the time.

I don't understand how things as subjective as "morality" (especially since it always involves what OTHER people might do) are more important than someone's literal interests. It's like cutting off your nose to spite your face.

It's how Bush got his second term. Yeah, actually I do look down on people who vote against their best interest because of a wedge issue that probably doesn't even directly involve them. Just dumb. I couldn't care less about a politicians faith and moral beliefs/principals....I'm more about if their job plan will benefit me in the long run.

I know a lot of people worry about what freebies they'll get over what's best for everyone. lol

I vote based on morality, but at the same time, I've never once found a case where my morality made me vote for a candidate whose policies weren't also preferable on economic issues. I've always found that the candidates whose policies tend to align with my morality also tend to be better on everything else.

I suppose I will look down on people who look down on me. Already I see a lot of double-standards from those looking down on voters who vote for moral reasons. lol

I used to vote on the basis of what I thought was good for the country. Now I vote for what is best for me personally because what is good for me is also good for others. Took me a while to figure that out, but I did finally get there.

Marc™ wrote:

It's how Bush got his second term. Yeah, actually I do look down on people who vote against their best interest because of a wedge issue that probably doesn't even directly involve them. Just dumb. I couldn't care less about a politicians faith and moral beliefs/principals....I'm more about if their job plan will benefit me in the long run.

Funny cause I remember listening to the Russ Parr morning show the day after the 2004 election when Bush won. Russ read off an email from a listener who said that even though their job wasn't secure and their money wasn't tight that their faith was more important to them than that all that, so they voted in accordance to it. I remember thinking "what a fool." How you gonna vote for somebody that's not gonna help you stay afloat and will work against you all because of ideology? People need to learn to separate certain things for the good of themselves.

Chris wrote:

Do you look down on voters who vote for a candidate more on the basis of faith and morality, and the candidates similarities there, rather than economics interests and living conditions?

No, because it's what I do. I vote on the person I feel has the most "moral" policies, and the policies that I feel would benefit the majority of people in the country rather than the select few. The only time its ever been "unclear" to me who I should vote for was in 2004 (Bush vs Kerry). I didn't trust, like or believe either of them, so I sat that election out. But every other time, it's been very clear to me which person I needed to vote for.

I feel like this about people who vote against their own self interest

Yeah I think it's beyond stupid to vote against your own best self interests and for the candidate that contradicts most of those issues ONLY BECAUSE they are against gay marriage too! That's what this question boils down to usually. "I'm against the gays marrying or against women having the right to abort, so let me vote for the guy who is against it too but will still raise my taxes & make it hard for me to send my kids to school or have healthcare". But you cant expect bigots to be reasonable and logical. So let them vote for the guy who they think will screw the people they hate while screwing them at the same time. They will deserve it!