I never once told him who to vote for, we just disagree with the 3rd party vote stance. He made his decision all on his own, and it wasn’t what I expected, because I didn’t make him vote for anyone, we hadn’t discussed it in months. We argued about the concept of a “protest vote” in this current election, where…

I’m a man. I voted for Hillary. I also voted for John Kerry 12 years ago. You know who I like more? Hillary. Anyone who says that they didn’t want to vote for Hillary but voted for John Kerry without a qualm is full of shit. In my opinion. Yes, it also is nice that I’m giving my daughter a role model in the White…

The flawed candidate thing. Outliers have been voting for flawed candidates since we could vote. Did you see women complaining because so-and-so didn’t meet her every check mark? No! Like. Come onnn

Too right. Like, do you guys really want to start talking about sheer disappointment? Do you guys really want to go into 200+ years of flawed, corrupt, unlikeable, disappointing white male candidates that people voted for because they were the lesser evil in the end? You guys really want to mount that horse? I don’t…

The one meme I hate the most is, “I’m forced to choose between a man who will ban brown people from entering the United States and a woman who wants to bomb them overseas.”

Yeah, fuck the lockerroom mentality of Deadspin. I’ve been for Hillary since last year and was as proud to vote for her as I was to vote for Obama. She’s amazingly qualified and will go down as one of the greats. The bullshit about her so-called “crimes” may never go away, but I never believed any of it, even for a…

The most fucked up thing this election has done (besides putting a lunatic *this* close to the White House), is force people to qualify or defend voting for Hillary Clinton (a perfectly reasonable candidate!).

Someone explain to me how she is a “deeply flawed candidate” without spouting bullshit pulled from thirty years of right wing talking points.

It was the same when they voted for Obama. Like all of a sudden they had defeated racism or some such nonsense and people should be damn grateful they dragged their asses out of bed that day.

But Hillary isn’t perfect! I DEMAND 100% AGREEMENT WITH A CANDIDATE! WHARRGARBL! WHARRGARBL!

I mean, if you’re going to deliberately misread what I said, we may as well be done here.

Do you think everyone who says “I voted for Hillary” without also offering some hyperbolic, overwrought explanation about how much they hated voting for her and what a struggle it was endorsed every single thing Hillary stands for?

Just wanted to share this comment I saw on Facebook.

It pissed me off too. Yeah several of them were doing the right thing, but it’s the grudging, dragging of the feet, teenage-angsty “but only because I HAVE to MOM” whining tone that I took exception with. Grow the fuck up, gentlemen. Some things are more important than your personal feelings.

You didn’t actually read the comments if you think people were primarily taking issue with their lack of enthusiasm.

I don’t think it’s the lack of enthusiasm. Magary’s post and Sargent’s post, for example, were not enthusiastic. Same with the women. They just said who they were going to vote for, and to the extent they explained, it was simply “Because she is obviously the best choice, Trump would be unacceptable.”

“Sorry to burst your bubble, but America isn’t going to change whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump becomes President”

It’ll never end, but Deadspin is sleeping on the couch for awhile.

They gotta pander to their base.

A vote for Hillary (or Jill Stein or—in previous years—Barack Obama) only fails to matter if you’re used to voting for someone like you.