Trump...

Not sure what miracle you're hoping for.  Even if Trump were to bow out, the GOP can't replace him on the ballot.  The ballots are printed. Voting has happened.  There are rules about how you can get on a ballot.  It can't happen. 

I don't think it's only Brain dead idiots. Some people just want change in washington. Drastic change. Some people are tired of writing blank checks to the special interests of the Democratic Party, our debt is big enough, we can't afford anymore. Some people don't want Democratic appointments to the Supreme Court. There's the anyone but Hillary camp, who I completely understand. There are many various reasons not to vote for Hillary she's not an appealing candidate to many.

I'd love to not vote for Hillary. However, she wins the lesser of two evils battle in my mind.

Which ever way, please just vote. It's important.

I'm voting for Trump.

I'll have to disagree with your assessment of "vigorous discussions".  It's ugly here.  It's uglier than it even was in 2004, 2008, or 2012.  

I don't like or support either candidate.  AT THIS TIME, I will not cast a vote for either Trump or Clinton.  As much as I wish I could cast my vote for Johnson, I just cannot.  

I understand that the left hates Trump.  I can almost understand their vitriol towards him.  (face it, he brings much of it on himself) But the words and attitude I've seen directed at people who are or may vote for him sickens me.  

If Americans can treat one another so poorly, over which candidate we will support and vote for, not only are we in complete distress regardless of which candidate wins because neither are qualified or can be trusted to be Presidential, but we Americans cannot even support or respect one another.  

Whomever wins on Nov 8th doesn't matter.  We're completely fucked either way.  The nation will be in distress.  Americans will still be as divided and disrespectful of anyone who believes differently than they do.  

It's so disheartening to see people treat one another like this.  

I'm voting for Trump and I think the majority of my friends and family probably are as well, although I don't think anyone is very excited about it.

If you tend to have a conservative outlook on politics and life in general, then it's only natural you would tend to vote for the more conservative candidate (or at least the one who claims to be a conservative).

I don't post on many political threads anymore for a lot of different reasons. It does seem like the board used to be a lot more balanced between conservative and liberal posters, but it seems like now there are many more liberal posters. I don't think the board reflects society in general though. I think in real life, our country is split pretty evenly between people with a conservative outlook versus those with a liberal outlook, which I think is a good thing for our country as a whole.

It IS healthy to have voters on all points of the Left-Right spectrum of political ideology. And yes, it would be only natural for a conservative to vote for a nominee named Bush or Romney or McCain.

Do the unprecedented personal characteristics/behavior of THIS nominee - including his repeated challenge of the legitimacy of the election results - change anything for you?

My husband and I had an interesting What-If discussion last night. Scenario: The Democratic nominee is Donald Trump (complete with the personal behaviors, reactions, and motivations we've seen so far), and the Republican nominee is Ted Cruz. We both think Cruz is a scary combination of extreme and smart, we disagree with almost everything he believes, and we would be loathe to accept his Supreme Court nominees, but we both reluctantly concluded that in this case we would vote for man person over party.

It was painful, though, even just discussing it.

I'm voting for Trump.

You handled your response much more diplomatically than I would've.  I applaud you.  You owe NO ONE HERE any explanation or defense of your vote.  

So sick and tired of the left and the constant bashing of Trump while overlooking Clinton's absolute equal level of contempt of her own actions.  

So tired of reading all the lectures on how horrible Trump is coming from those on the left.  

And folks...this is why many who actually support Trump are silent.  

And again I will state that the EXACT SAME THING can be said regarding Hillary.  

America loses.  

Go back and read your additional commentary.  Because there was more...enough so that someone felt they needed to explain or defend their vote to you.  

My ballot is sitting on the table already to mail in the morning.  First thing I did was put my mark next Clinton/Kaine.   And I did it with no misgivings what so ever.

I knew from the very beginning she was the most qualified of all candidates on both sides so she was going to get my vote.

But I didn't care for her much.  But thanks to the Hillary Haters on this board I spent time checking out their grievances against Hillary.   The more I dug the more I found I liked her.   And in spite of the dumb things she has done.

So thanks Hillary Haters! 

A thousand times this. I was an ambivalent Hillary voter at best (I voted for Bernie in the primaries.) But to better understand the grievances, I immersed myself in learning/watching as much about both candidates as I could and to my surprise, I discovered that HRC is pretty damn amazing. I think she's going to be a great President. Now if her husband was running again, that would be a whole different conversation and my vote would go to someone else.

I live in an area which is staunchly Trump. It makes me laugh when I read the posts chastising liberals about the tone of discourse on this board. And really, how hard can it to be defend why you're willing to overlook all of the ugliness related to that man in order to vote for your chosen party? In this case I don't get the whiny defensiveness at all because he's put it all out there front and center, loudly and proudly. But what do I know, being nothing but a nasty woman?