Carly Fiorina Admits Not Voting For Years

San Jose Mercury News:

Republicans Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina face a tall order in their quest for the state's highest political offices: Persuade voters they're not just wealthy ex-CEOs looking to indulge their egos in politics now that their business careers are tapped out. That's why their failure to perform the most basic civic duty -- voting -- for much of their adult lives is a potentially powerful issue, analysts say. It reinforces the notion that their interest in politics is less than sincere.

"It confirms voters' suspicions that they're running out of boredom or because they like the trappings of power," said Darry Sragow, a longtime Democratic strategist who is not involved in either race.

Read the whole story: San Jose Mercury News

Comments

[armadillo]

09:32 AM on 10/16/2009

She didn't vote because it's so "pedestrian."

[mmonarch]

07:04 PM on 10/16/2009

Because there was no one worth voting for?

[littlepuffycloud]

12:21 PM on 11/04/2009

...voting is something for the 'little people' to do, right?

[Destin]

05:07 AM on 10/16/2009

If California thinks things are bad now, oh boy, just vote Meg Whitman into office. She'll make Ahnold look like FDR.

[Whinger]

03:43 AM on 10/16/2009

If Carly Fiorina were a river you could wade across and never get your feet wet.

How's that for the new standard of shallow!

[Destin]

05:06 AM on 10/16/2009

lol, that's pretty shallow indeed!

[JiminNC]

05:53 AM on 10/16/2009

Or you could drive across at greater than 50 mph without fear of hydroplaning

[takeabigdeepbreath]

08:22 AM on 10/16/2009

Or you could fish in it with a spatula.

[jde]

02:50 AM on 10/16/2009

Republicans will vote for them anyway. They have no dignity. They just like that little R in front of their names.

[Querent]

02:42 AM on 10/16/2009

I hardly see how Meg Whitman or Carly Fiorina could be less appealing to voters in the current climate of corporate misrule and malfeasance. These two just want to be back in the position of being the one who gives the orders that everybody else has to carry out. Neither one has any concept of the public good. They are just ego-obsessed authoritarians looking for their next group of victims. Neither one is going to ultimately be elected, and that's as it should be, since neither one has any other agenda than self-aggrandizement.

[TXOBAMAGIRL73]

02:21 AM on 10/16/2009

The republicans sure do love them some business k/llers Carly and Meg are they on a seek and destroy mission!!! Oh these so call free market lovers....the market is only free after they have managed to destroy it and bailout w/ there golden parachutes!!!

[pghperson]

01:51 AM on 10/16/2009

Not voting speaks volumes to the shallowness of Fiorina's political interest.

[Safire]

01:25 AM on 10/16/2009

Voting is for the "little" people. The wealthy don't need to vote. They only need to lobby and buy the vote.

[A Meat Beetle]

12:02 AM on 10/16/2009

Why would anyone smarter than a carrot vote for these people?

[buddhistMonkey]

11:54 PM on 10/15/2009

Voting is the responsibility of every eligible citizen of a democracy. It's a right and a privilege, as well. Carly and Meg didn't vote because they didn't care about their communities and country enough to participate in their elections. That's not the sort of attitude they can simply change about themselves overnight, if ever. Both women certainly seem more interested in obtaining power positions than they are in governing their communities well, and their nonexistent voting records deny them the benefit of the doubt.

[msgirlintn]

12:37 AM on 10/16/2009

They just wanted to tell everyone else how to vote since both worked for John McCain's campaign. Guess he didn't vet them any better than he did Palin.

[hipichick7]

11:39 PM on 10/15/2009

I have voted in every election (local, state, and general) since 1974. For me no issue is to small to not vote on.
Voting = B!tch!ing Rights.

[JiminNC]

05:55 AM on 10/16/2009

Me too HC - First POTUS vote was Carter ... second was too

[mmonarch]

10:44 PM on 10/16/2009

I have not missed an election since 1972. I turned 18 in December of 71, so I had to wait. I voted. But I admit, there were times when I stood in the voting booth and practically had to flip a coin. Is this what it is supposed to be? A vote for the lesser of two evils? When there is not a clear, answer, does one vote just to vote? Why? Just curious. I mean it is our privilege to vote. Would you get married just because you can? (Poor analogy, but a better one does not come to mind). I am not trying to be a "devil's advocate" here. I'd like some honest dialogue. What if you can't stand ANY of the candidates. How can you, in clear conscience, then vote for any one of them?

[mmonarch]

10:52 PM on 10/15/2009

Anyone know when Obama registered to vote? I have looked around and can't seem to find an answer to that one? Seriously.

Also, there have been many elections where I felt that NO ONE deserved my vote. Don't know if that was her reasoning.

[ifitwereme]

11:25 PM on 10/15/2009

oh my twice

[JessWonderin]

12:00 AM on 10/16/2009

Being what you folks like to call "a community organizer", I'm SURE he "registered and VOTED a long time ago . . . . nice try, but NO RNC Tee-Shirt.

I think Carley had IDGAF as "reasoning" on not voting

[mmonarch]

11:49 AM on 10/16/2009

Touchy, touchy, touchy. So I guess if anyone asks any questions about HRH Obama, everyone on Huffpo gets on the defensive express. I was just asking because he happened to spend some time out of the country and I did some looking up on one of his people, Geithner and he also spend much of his time out of the U.S. But I did notice that not one of you came up with an answer to my question either. So your tactic is, if you don't know the answer then jump on the questioner? That is Obama's staff tactic too.

[old lady]

10:31 PM on 10/15/2009

Can't blame her for not voting for the man who threw her under the straighttalk express, but "for most of her adult life"? just doesn't sound adult. And how do thiese people get on political talk shows and opinionate on what's good for the country when they are so carelessly shirking their civic responsibility... and bragging about it!!! HYPOCRITES ALL.

[ifitwereme]

10:18 PM on 10/15/2009

having not voted for a republican in years I guess we are even.

[unhhockey]

10:08 PM on 10/15/2009

The most amazing part is that she makes Meg Whitman look competent and that's no easy task.