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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dru" data-source="post: 1345335" data-attributes="member: 3047">Mostly its because I absolutely will not vote for Askins, and I just really can't stomach Fallin.  She's a sellout IMO.  i can't forget the fact that she voted for the bailout and therefore did not have the courage to stand up for principle.  The fact she did that demonstrates to me that she will cave under pressure and not show the leadership that this state will need in the near future.  People who will stand firmly on principle will be crucial as some states begin to fight against a burgeoning federal government and she has demonstrated that she lacks that ability.By the same token, if I vote for her, given my opposition to her based on my own principles, then I effectively am a hypocrite for requiring of her the very thing which I would lack via my action of voting for her and "caving" just because she is the lesser of two evils or, as I like to say "sucks less"Both parties know that most people will hold their nose and eventually vote for one candidate or the other.  THey therefore have no real incentive to run candidates too far out of their own ideological comfort zone.  The only way to break that is to convince them that if they don't put up the right candidates, then they may well lose the election on that candidate due to lack of voter interest on that side.I hope that explains somewhat why I am considering voting tomorrow, but not for the governor's office specifically.</blockquote>

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