Would you vote for an unsuccessful candidate?

The only way to ensure that the country does not get screwed up any more than it already is, vote fore a candidate who has absolutely no chance of winning.

SAD, but true!

You're starting to catch on Y.J. , now you just have to get that party B.S. out of your head, same goes for S.J.

"You're starting to catch on Y.J. , now you just have to get that party B.S. out of your head, same goes for S.J. "

JLM, my party affiliation at this particular time is that the Conservative Party is more in line with my conservative values than any of the other parties.

So, while I am a conservative, that does not mean that I am a Conservative.

I wish liberals would havre the same sense to distinguish between small and capital "L".

i have the ability to vote for anyone i want. if this persons views fell in line with mine i would vote for them.

Hey!

I was a Reform Party member in Saint John, New Brunswick when Elsie Wayne was MP>

Does that answer your question???

The problem is it's a huge leap from "views" to execution.

Indeed it is huge leap but if i have a non-partisan pragmatic approach and vote accordingly i think the person i vote for will be able to follow through on some campaign promises. Party based politics have run there course in this country we should move beyond it to policy based politics

Who is determining what success is? I ran for public office once for a political party. I didn't go to university, I finished school and eventually got a broadcast degree, but I was working in the business for years before I got it. I know a lot of
people who have degrees and they are dumber than a bag of hammers. Just
because you have a degree doesn't mean you know anything about people or the
world. It doesn't give you licence to solve complex problems either. Education is
the ability to learn how to learn and there are any number of people who are a
lot smarter than the people we have in office. The answer is yes I would vote for
an ordinary Joe, likely before I would vote for a lawyer I tell ya.

Unsuccessful in life and working at a menial job? I have no intention of casting a vote for the NDP[that's the typical candidate here]

Most of the people I voted for were unsuccessful in politics, but successful elsewhere.
hehe I usually vote for the underdog just because and that usually coincides with whoever Les votes for .... Indies.