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Do you and your spouse sit down and agree on what votes to cast?

My spouse and I work together on voting

  • Yes

    Votes: 4 14.3%

  • No

    Votes: 24 85.7%

  • We horse trade

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    28
chuckiechan

chuckiechan

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I do the propositions and initiatives and she usually follows my votes, but on candidates we discuss and usually agree on who we vote for.

Is this all that common?
 
You excited about being able to vote on 17 props? I heard next election there will be 32 props.
 
We each exercise our right to vote. Sometimes we agree, sometimes we do not.
 
mike2810 said:
We each exercise our right to vote. Sometimes we agree, sometimes we do not.
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Sometimes we agree...sometimes we don't. In times when we disagree then I guess we essentially cancel out each others vote.
 
I see no reason why my voting needs to be a team sport. For most of our marriage she has been very rightwing and I have been very lefty, so agreeing on candidates was never going to happen.
 
foadi said:
You excited about being able to vote on 17 props? I heard next election there will be 32 props.
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I actually research them. Even though I know my vote will be cancelled out by some "eeney, meenie, miney, moe" or a junkie on his mother's couch.
 
Not on candidates but we do hash out the propositions.
 
chuckiechan said:
I do the propositions and initiatives and she usually follows my votes, but on candidates we discuss and usually agree on who we vote for.

Is this all that common?
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Uh... Not that I've ever heard.

I've never asked a partner who or what I should vote for, nor had them ask me.
 
My wife isn't a citizen yet so her opinions don't matter.

;)
 
straykatz said:
Sometimes we agree...sometimes we don't. In times when we disagree then I guess we essentially cancel out each others vote.
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Pretty much. Just like if your friend was voting different than you. Your vote cancels his.

On a different thread dealing with AZ marijuana prop 205, one person from AZ said they were voting Yes, I said I was voting no because the bill is poorly written with too many loop holes., imo.
 
My wife is a Trumpeteer.

I told her that she was ****ing stupid.


I didn't get any supper.
 
We discuss the candidates and propositions. She is further right than I am. We agree about almost everything. I can only think of one proposal we disagreed on and discussed it. She changed her vote two days later after thinking about it.
 
RetiredUSN said:
My wife is a Trumpeteer.

I told her that she was ****ing stupid.


I didn't get any supper.
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I am the cook in our house. I set the menu. I do the cleaning, make the firewood and stock the wood bin. It gives me leverage.
 
RetiredUSN said:
I have her buy more frozen pot pies now when she goes to the commissary. ;)
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We are having roast tonight. You can keep those pot pies. They are loaded with sodium but other than that I can't think of anything redeeming about them.
 
Absolutely not

She is staunchly independent, and I am mostly fiscally conservative

Once in a while our candidates coincide, but not often

She is a strong, independent, intelligent, and highly successful woman

The last thing in the world I would try to do is try to tell her who to vote for.....she has her own opinions

We usually do not often talk politics or religion....about the only two subjects we don't broach very often

When we do talk politics, we agree to disagree and not argue about it
 
chuckiechan said:
I do the propositions and initiatives and she usually follows my votes, but on candidates we discuss and usually agree on who we vote for.

Is this all that common?
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No, no it is not. :lol: We do discuss the issues and candidates though.
 
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