Just voted for Tulsi. Not lying when I say I've had more than 10 Trump
voting friends post/text today that they crossed over and voted Biden
to stop the Communist. The precinct my dad works at, he's guess >50%
voters voted for Biden. On the way to vote I heard a black-themed
pro-Biden, anti-Bernie ad. Biden may pull this off afterall.
The Trumpers are voting against their interests for November, that's for sure.
Not really. Tactical voting can have a way of backfiring! 2016 showed us that the unexpected can actually happen, so it makes sense to vote for the "least bad" of the opposition party that you could
come closest to living with.
Put it another way: if you were a Republican who voted for Sanders to help him win the nomination, and then he somehow beat Trump... how would you feel about having helped to elect Sanders?
Or the flip side: if you were a Democrat who tactically voted for Trump in the 2016 R primary because you thought he'd be a weak opponent in the fall... how do you feel about having helped to elect
Trump?
This. The whole idea of 'tactical voting' is too clever by half. The reality is someone who appears to be "unelectable" is right up until they aren't (see, e.g., Trump), and vice versa. I've gone into this elsewhere on the forum, but coming from someone who has no real horse in the race and is indifferent about who wins, I think the only thing we can say with any certainty about Sanders (if he won the nomination), is that the race would be more unpredictable.. for the simple reason that Sanders would be the farthest left a Dem candidate has gone in at least 40 years and we have no idea how that would shake out.
Maybe it would lead to a huge D win, or loss, who knows. There's a lot of opinions to go around on this forum, but everyone is just spitballing and nobody actually knows.
If you can't be guaranteed that a certain candidate will be better or worse for Trump to face, then it makes perfect sense to instead vote for the person you could live with and is closest to you ideologically. Keeping that in mind, it's completely reasonable for Trump Republicans to conclude that at end of the day, taking away all the campaign puffery, personal feelings and what have you.. Biden is
closer to them ideologically than Sanders is.
