Who Cares who Alison Lundergan Grimes Voted For?

[branford]

138. You cannot demand what voters should believe is important in an election.

Grime's vote itself is certainly private as a legal matter.

However, you stated that her vote was "nobody's business." You are certainly free to hold that opinion, but the voters in KY are free to disagree.

Grimes is a public figure seeking higher elected office. She can be asked any question, and answer, or not, as she deems fit. However, her response, or refusal to respond, can be evaluated by any voter in their discretion. You cannot prohibit a voter from considering anything, no matter how trivial or otherwise private. Moreover, what is considered private for a regular citizen is not always so for candidates for office, regardless of the letter of the law.

In this instance, the Democratic candidate (and Obama delegate!) was asked who she voted for president. Either she did not vote for Obama, the Democratic nominee and current president, in violation of her duties as delegate, or lack the expected conviction of proudly stating that she voted for our president. I'm a loyal and lifelong Democratic, and I even found her response "odd."

It is not hard to imagine that independents, and even some Democrats, were perplexed by how Grimes did not have an appropriate response to such a simple question. I fully understand that she doesn't want to be linked to Obama, as he is unpopular in KY, but as has become evident, her non-answer was a much worse strategy.