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Did you are are you voting a "straight" ticket?

Did you or will you vote a "straight" ticket?

  • Yes

    Votes: 32 64.0%
  • No

    Votes: 18 36.0%

  • Total voters
    50
Before 2016, I often voted straight R. This year it's straight D. I'll be doing that for the foreseeable future.

Hubby canceled some but not all of my votes. I thought he would join me in voting for the D for governor, but instead he went independent. He used to say he wouldn't waste his vote on third party and that was his excuse for voting for even repugnant Republicans such as Trump. But this year, while he defected partly from the R's, he just couldn't go all the way over to D for most.

Give him time. The more Trump and his goons in the GOP urinate all over the nation, the chances of him voting D increase. Then again, hopefully the Dems win at least the house tonight, which can at least somewhat slow Trump and his thugs down.
 
I generally try to evaluate candidates based on qualifications and policy stances. I have problems with democrats who claim to be moderate and say they will support the conservative position on many issues and then get into office and vote strict democrat party line. That has led me to vote for republicans because I don't trust democrats to actually vote for the same values I hold.

Exactly... I don't trust them to be "moderate" anymore either... That's another reason why my vote is now a resounding R...
 
Hubby and I both voted straight R. And a couple of them we don't care to much for but the alternative was not acceptable. And for me even though the elections to Congress and governorship are important, equally are voting in the right judges. I was amazed how many old people were at the polls today standing in line to vote. Some with canes and walkers. Some needed assistance because they couldn't operate the voting machines.
 
I don't care which party. I don't believe I've ever voted a straight ticket in my life, might have inadvertently but not intentionally. This year I did though.

This pretty much describes me. Don't think I ever voted for any Republicrat until Bernie during the Dem Primaries. I voted third party in the 2016 election because I live in Illinois and knew Hillary would win it no problem (in a swing state I would vote the 'lesser of two evils').

This midterm I am voting straight ticket because there needs to be a check on Drumpf.
 
Yes, straight Democrat.

It will be a long time before I ever again vote for any Republican.
 
I'm very pro gun, fiscally conservative and a hawk. I'm an environmentalist, a feminist and progressive on social issues. My ticket is usually split depending on candidate, location, issue, current events, third party situation and other considerations. I never thought I'd vote a straight ticket.

When it got to "Fiscal General" and "Financial Officer" (or some such), I thought to myself, "okay, that would be going too far, right? Those people don't even wield political power so I can just vote my lean there." But I decided this would probably never happen again so let's make it a 'straight ticket', held my nose and locked in the 100%.

Had a few laughs along the way.



Forgot to add that you used to blouse your Class “A’s”. :2wave:
 
The Sun will be a red dwarf by the time that happens.

I think most of the GOP defectors (Steve Schmidt, Max Boot, Bill Kristol, Michael Steele, George Will, etc) have argued the party needs to be completely burned to the ground before conservatism returns to any semblance of sanity.
 
I'm not sure I can vote 'yes' in the thread's poll. I'm not sure I'd able able to explain it to future generations.



"But you said partisanship is stupid".

"It wasn't partisanship. Times were different, things were different. You just can't understand."

"Excuses."



Oh, well. I done did what I did.
 
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I think most of the GOP defectors (Steve Schmidt, Max Boot, Bill Kristol, Michael Steele, George Will, etc) have argued the party needs to be completely burned to the ground before conservatism returns to any semblance of sanity.
All those people will do is change the face of the Republican party, not the Republican platform itself.
 
I'm not sure I can vote 'yes' in the thread's poll. I'm not sure I'd able able to explain it to future generations.



"But you said partisanship is stupid".

"It wasn't partisanship. Times were different, things were different. You just can't understand."

"Excuses."



Oh, well. I done did what I did.

To me, partisanship is like the 'my country, right or wrong' mentality. Partisans are blind followers.

Voted straight ticket this time and not at all worried about being labeled a partisan. Unfortunately, the GOP has gotten so insane with the Trump Cult of Personality that I cannot think of a single running Dem who appears less palatable than any of the Trump bootlickers.
 
To me, partisanship is like the 'my country, right or wrong' mentality. Partisans are blind followers.

Voted straight ticket this time and not at all worried about being labeled a partisan.

I agree, partisanship is like nationalism.
 
I’m optimistic. I’m not saying it needs to be someone I like or agree with. Just a rational actor. For example, I think every other major candidate in the last Republican Presidential primary is a rational actor.

I haven’t voted Republican at the federal level in over a decade, but I do occasionally vote for libertarian leaning Republicans in state and local elections. But the party needs to be punished for this nonsense.
They need to be punished for a long, long time for them to learn anything and change.

There's a lot of things to learn from Trump's time in office, but if there's one thing to never forget, it's how power hungry the Republican party is. They are still very much interested in repealing much of the social reforms that don't fit into their traditionalist and religious dogmas, and they'll burn down the country if it means getting that.

That's one thing I'm glad Trump put front and center.
 
All those people will do is change the face of the Republican party, not the Republican platform itself.

You are more-or-less, correct. However, Trump has taken a lot of that platform and pushed it to levels even all the aforementioned cannot stomach. For example, most of them have called Trump's immigration policies racist. Perhaps this is making some of the NeverTrumpers rethink on certain platforms they held in the past.
 
On my second try at voting, first try the people at the poll told me, after 20min of waiting, that the county was doing a system update and they were sorry about the wait. I left. But I did go back and vote straight D.

I don't know that I will ever go back to Republicans. Sure you can change Trump, but his supporters. They voted for a man that bragged about walking in on teen girls in dressing rooms. **** on POW's. I'll never be comfortable in that group now that I know what they are.
 
I don't care which party. I don't believe I've ever voted a straight ticket in my life, might have inadvertently but not intentionally. This year I did though.

I tend not too, but this election I did.
 
I don't care which party. I don't believe I've ever voted a straight ticket in my life, might have inadvertently but not intentionally. This year I did though.

My first vote was in 1968 when one had to be 21 to vote. Since then I cast a straight party ticket just once when one of the parties made me angry at them. I always in my mind voted for the best candidate regardless of party. When both major party candidates disgust me, I have no qualms in voting third party. An official, duly registered vote against both major party's candidates.
 
I don't care which party. I don't believe I've ever voted a straight ticket in my life, might have inadvertently but not intentionally. This year I did though.

What is with the title of this thread?
 
this is the first time that i hit the straight ticket option that i can recall. i have argued against even having that option in the past, and would probably still vote to eliminate it. however, since there was no chance that i was going to vote for a Republican for any office in this election, i did use it this time.
 
Before 2016, I often voted straight R. This year it's straight D. I'll be doing that for the foreseeable future.

Hubby canceled some but not all of my votes. I thought he would join me in voting for the D for governor, but instead he went independent. He used to say he wouldn't waste his vote on third party and that was his excuse for voting for even repugnant Republicans such as Trump. But this year, while he defected partly from the R's, he just couldn't go all the way over to D for most.

I hope you guys get rid of Walker. Time to come back to the fold..;)
 
I don't care which party. I don't believe I've ever voted a straight ticket in my life, might have inadvertently but not intentionally. This year I did though.

I never vote a straight ticket.
 
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