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It's driving me nuts, I've been browsing through some online dictionaries and for the life of me I can't pin down the proper way to say "I voted for 'someone'" in Chinese.

I voted for Obama/McCain.

and

Who did you vote for?

are the sentences I'm basically trying to say.

Scouring the dictionaries, I have found

投某人一票 vote for someone?

投某人票 vote for someone?

投票赞成~ vote in favor of ~ (is this for policies only? i.e. vote in favor of gun control? Or can you use this with people?)

投票支持~ vote for/in favor of ~ (policies? people? both?)

投票反对~ to vote against something

投票表决 to put something to vote, to vote on x

So...

投奥巴马一票?

投麦凯恩票?

我投票支持了奥巴马?

我投票赞成了麦凯恩?

你投了谁票?

I really don't know. Thanks.

Posted

I voted for Obama/McCain.

我(把票)投给了奥巴马。

我投了奥巴马一票。

Who did you vote for?

你(把票)投给谁了?

你投谁了一票?

the words in bracket can be omitted.and the character '了'

is important,it's used in the past tense.shows you already voted.

Posted

Because to support is one thing, and to actually cast your vote for that person another.

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