Take Beliefnet's 2008 Election exit poll!

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I recommend, not having asked Rod's permission about it, that those of you not willing to register post your responses here. Even though I am registered, that is what I shall do:

I voted for Obama. The reasons are complex, the issues a mish-mash of political propaganda, half truths and omissions of fact. In the end, I know two things:

The president is the representative of all the people, and as such must be judged on his character. For me, Obama is a close first to McCain's second. I have a healthy respect for both men.

The Bush administration, while arguably egregious by comparison, is just the latest in a string of administrations that have failed to serve us. On balance, I hope that Obama will do better in that regard than McCain.

It won't let me finish it unless I answer ALL the questions, and some of the questions don't give the kinds of choices I would want to select, so I can't/won't finish the poll. You should suggest to BeliefNet that they allow people to complete as many or as few of the questions as they wish, and not require an answer to EVERY question, unless there is an "Other" and "Not Applicable" selection for all questions.

Funny--I didn't have the registration problem at all. Of course, at my last place of employment, they had us do Survey Monkey surveys all the time, so it may have recognized me (although I don't think I used the same screen name). Oh, well--in any case, I've participated in democracy!

I thought that it was odd that on the survey part about abortion, the primary question was an either or question of whether or not political policy and legislation was the best way to end abortions,or changing the cultural climate was the better solution

I disliked that question because it implied that the two choices were somehow mutually exclusive.

I voted for McCain, but I don't feel good about it

I wrote in Mike Huckabee, and feel pretty good, though as a consequence somewhat disengaged from the election results.

I voted for McCain, scared to death by the other guy..However, I was wrong once before, it could happen again...When people ask how old I am, I say as old as the State of Israel, I sincerely hope we don't both end together..soon...:-(

for the record - someone should let BeliefNet know that there needed to be another choice on the "which is the best way to reduce abortions" - some of us think that outlawing abortions would be a good thing, but that we need to do what we can to help pregnant women and thus reduce abortion in the meantime (and reduce illegal abortions if we ever get abortion outlawed)... but there was no choice for both - just one or the other or that the issue was unimportant...

I'm also not sure whether it would acknowledge not voting on just the presidental ticket as that we had voted in general, or if it then thinks we didn't vote at all...