Well, the Republican nominee is almost certain to be Romney. He's less of a frontrunner than historic Republican frontrunners, but I can't see a path through the primaries for anyone else.

Bachman could easily win Iowa but certainly not New Hampshire or any other early primary, let alone the general election. Huntsman is secretly running for Secretary of State. Without Iowa Pawlenty's finished. If Perry gets in he'll shake things up, but it's still a hard thing for him to win Iowa or New Hampshire and waiting till South Carolina for your first victory is a risky way to go about getting the nomination.

I really think it'll be Romney and it'll be razor thin in the general election. If only Mitch Daniels had ran...

@ Invictus

With respect, I asked who you would vote for, not who you think will win.

@ TheFlyingBoat

You can pick Obama.

I'll put it this way:

If the election were today, I'd vote for Obama.

However, the GOP hasn't produced a candidate I like yet, and while I'm not unhappy with Obama, he's no matter a president who's wowed or won me over wholly...



So I suppose if the GOP ran a good, moderate candidate, someone I agreed with, I could conceivably reconsider my position...

I would vote for Daniels, I think I will be voting for Romney (barring me falling in love with the Libertarian). Thought that was pretty clear in the first post.

Sorry, Invictus. I'm pretty tired. My reading comprehension has fallen off in the past hour =P

I'd vote for Herman Cain, but Ron Paul is looking more and more attractive every day.

If I vote it will be Obama. Don't even care who the GOP picks.
This will be the last presidential election I'm eligible to vote for so I don't really care.

How is that the case? You can vote from abroad. Are you giving up your citizenship?

Most likely yes.
I graduate in no more than two years and if I'm ever going to do it, it has to be before I have any money.

What other country do you have citizenship in? This sounds like a wildly bad idea.

Gary Johnson, unless the Dems grow a pair and challenge Obama with someone that's not another GWB clone.

Why renounce your citizenship, Geo?

And where will you go?

Canada now, Germany if not US.
The only thing the states have to offer me is higher education. You don't have to be a citizen to take advantage of that and in any case, I'm almost done taking advantage of it anyway.

They paid for my education but they won't benefit from it. Too many good jobs in Germany or Vancouver for what I do.

Well, you're kind of a douche then.

I still don't see why you feel the need to give up your citizenship.

Plus if you get German citizenship you need to surrender your Canadian citizenship.

Wrong. I'm eligible for dual citizenship.

I'm a douche for not wanting to live here?
The USA is a cesspool of corruption, greed, and counter-productivity.
It's a smart business choice and a much desired personal choice.

I didn't think they did that, but my knowledge of German citizenship comes from a presentation in German class last semester.

But if you are a Canadian/German/Whatever who only came to America to make use of the high quality university level education system and leave then good riddance. If people want to be students at American universities for more than a year they should have to agree to stay.

You're a douche for having the people of another country pay for your education and then leave.

I'm a US citizen. I'm allowed all the rights and privileges as such.

Before I go to bed and this blows up:
I was just trolling.
I am moving out of the states, but the US citizenship is far too valuable as an employee to give up. I don't hate this country but I don't like it either. It has never felt like home.

I'll probably vote Romney because he's the most likely GOP candidate, but what I'd really love is for Colin Powell or Rudy Gulianni to run. I would vote either of them in office in a heartbeat. Powell isn't interested though, and Gulianni can't get through the primaries.

Also, we all know that the country is a cesspool or corruption and piece of crap, but I'd like to believe that's the case in other countries as well.

It is a good idea for someone who does not like the United States to live somewhere else. Sound judgement.

It is great that foreign citizens come to study here and then leave or stay. The international tuition rates are stratospheric.

Gunfighter, Herman Cain gets my vote as well.

Harper

Chew, half of my largest-in-the-state university is international. A lot of the one's I've talked to are being propped up by the State/Fed. At worse they're paying out-of-state, but most of the ones studying engineering are having their tuitions subsidized below that.

International students studying here and leaving is one of the biggest problems the US faces. They're not making money on it, in fact they're losing money on it, and it means all those potential jobs from companies being started here and all that high salary tax money is leaving.

But you really can't blame an engineer. There are very few science and engineering disciplines that pay more here than there and several where the pay overseas is better.

International students getting tuition subsidized by whom?

Apart from the pay, they are simply better countries.

I don't know. I didn't really pry into their lives that much.
I do know that many talked about having to support their families back home.
And I don't know many of them that held jobs. Several were on stateside scholarships.

In any case my university and the other three engineering universities I've worked at have an astounding amount of Indian and Asian natives that instantly move back once they've got that piece of paper. In no way is that good for a country.