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Are You a Straight Ticket Voter?

Are You a Straight Ticket Voter?


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Since when did stating a fact become "seeing things as a dastardly GOP plot".
I thought you were done with broad-stroking and putting words in people's mouths.

What don't you see as a GOP plot? I legitimately think straight ticket voting is stupid, but you'll say I'm just part of the plot, no doubt. Nobody could concievably have a legit differing point of view, it's all the Repubs!!!



The GOP legislature in Texas has been a criminal organization since their remap in 1990 and the way they hunted down Democratic lawmakers.
There's a reason Texas is at the top of the DOJ's list for remaps.
A 27-9 remap in 2010 with only a 55-45 advantage is certainly egregious.

Don't ever change, Nim. Have you checked under your bed for Republicans tonight?
 
I used to be straight ticket republican.

Now it's mixed, I generally vote for democrats for state and local offices since democrats where I live don't harp on gun control or insult the blue collar workin folk and support our unions.

Nationally I vote for republicans because the national Democratic Party seems to be intent on catering to the extreme urban liberal movement. I think they have disdain for workers and radical enforcement of environmental laws has hurt many people where I live and grew up.

Also I generally support liberal policies at the state level, but think the Feds have give themselves too much power
 
Far from it. My voting record is probably a 55/45 split at this point. I voted for Obama in '12 yet could easily see myself voting for Bush in '16 given the right circumstances. My choice is largely dependent on the circumstances at the time rather than ideological consistency.
 
I might vote for either party in a local election but in state/national, i'm straight "none of the above"

I'm convinced that both parties are cancer, so even if i like a particular candidate, i cannot trust them to cling to their platform while absorbed into the dem/repub behemoth. If their platform is identical to every other dem/repub, well that hasn't been working. My state government and the congress are both broken

I'd rather write in "donald duck" than vote for a centrist pansy, or "my right index finger" than a right wing fanatic
 
I typically vote Democrat in national elections and typically vote moderate Republican in state and local.
 
hyper-partisanship is this country's main problem in the political sphere.
I try to support 3rd parties, but it's pretty much hopeless as long as Aemricans think they are "wasting their vote" by supporting a 3rd party
 
I don't vote a straight party ticket. Nationally, I vote Republican.
 
For the most part I view people who vote straight ticket as being weak-minded, gullible, and easily led, though I admit that I do know a few people personally who actually put honest thought into it and sincerely come down on a single partisan side. There are exceptions to pretty much every rule.
 
While most of my votes on national level candidates would be considered "straight ticket," I've voted for candidates from both major and multiple minor parties for local and state level offices.
 
Good God no. I've seen some GOP candidates come out accusing a hardcore Tea Partier of being a RINO because he didn't want to completely remove property taxes and I've seen Democrats run for office like they truly were indifferent about anyone voting for them.
 
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Presidential I've only voted for Republicans, with the exception of my vote for Ross Perot
Governors - probably a 50/50 split
Senators - mostly Republicans
Congressional - probably a 50/50 split but lately all Republicans

Yes, I have voted straight ticket more than once, and each time I did that it was Republican straight
 
Straight tickett. I often find that the democrat candidate is too far left. The left are crazy, the right would be liberals 50 years ago. The country itself is too far left, so im pretty much forced to vote straight ticket to find a candidate even close to my values.
 
Straight tickett. I often find that the democrat candidate is too far left. The left are crazy, the right would be liberals 50 years ago. The country itself is too far left, so im pretty much forced to vote straight ticket to find a candidate even close to my values.
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At this point of my life I am voting straight GOP. I've lived through 2 Democratic Presidents and 1 Republican and the Democrats in my opinion have done far more damage to this nation than the Republican. I could not in good conscious be a part of a group that subjects another Democrat onto this nation.
 
I've voted democrat for president since I was old enough to vote. I've voted almost solely for for Democrats for house and senate seats too, though I did vote republican a couple times when I lived in Toledo because of how sleazy the democratic candidate's attack ads were. I've voted for a number of republican candidates for state and local offices though.
 
I've never had a straight-ticket ballot in my life. My ballots are always split, based on issues and individuals, not political parties... both the DNC and the GOP suck. That does not mean that the people who call themselves democrats or republicans suck; it's the political party machine I'm talking about. These political party machines don't give a fat flying fig about the country; they only care about raising money and keeping/getting power. A pox on them both.
 
I've never had a straight-ticket ballot in my life. My ballots are always split, based on issues and individuals, not political parties... both the DNC and the GOP suck. That does in no way mean that the people who call themselves democrats or republicans suck; it's the political party machine I'm talking about. These They don't give a fat flying fig about the country; they only care about raising money and keeping/getting power. A pox on them both.

Worth Repeating...thanks, DiAnna...spoken like a true INDEPENDENT! Bravo!
 
I've never voted straight party ticket.... though in recent years i've found myself voting for fewer Democrats ( as a straight white male, their party message is off putting)
 
The last few elections I have stood in line to vote, entered the voting booth, and pressed the vote button without selecting any (or many) candidates.

I'm fond of elections where there are alternative candidates. On the last ballet I voted, I was able to vote for a republican for governor who was running as an independent (I'm not that fond of our republican governor).
 
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Be honest. If you've never voted for someone from the "other" party (or you've done it so infrequently that it pretty much doesn't matter, like you can think of that one time 30 years ago that you did, etc.), you are a straight ticket voter and just own it. You're hardly alone. The majority of voters vote a straight Democrat ticket where I live and, in other Texas cities, most vote a straight Republican ticket. In fact, it's funny. Where I live, the GOP laments that kind of voting (which I agree with) but promotes it anywhere Repubs are the majority...but I digress. If you're constantly lamenting the other side as being "cold hearted" or the "empty headed", why should there be a reluctance to admit that you'd never cast your vote for someone you percieve that way? So just be real.

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It depends. I'll often vote for the 'person not the party' but I'll also often vote for the party, especially when it comes to elections to the legislator, because I'll consider myself to be voting for an agenda not an individual.
 
of course not, I have voted for gay and Lesbians before
 
At this point of my life I am voting straight GOP. I've lived through 2 Democratic Presidents and 1 Republican and the Democrats in my opinion have done far more damage to this nation than the Republican. I could not in good conscious be a part of a group that subjects another Democrat onto this nation.

Last three republican POTUS terms, three new recessions, three new wars.

Last four dem POTUS terms, zero new recessions, zero new wars.

You must be fond of wars and recessions, but...whatever.
 
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