Have you ever voted Republican, even once?

[galadrium]

I have never voted republican in my life, how about you all.

[truthseeker1]

1. I am a convert

:toast:

[galadrium]

8. Ok, you are forgiven...lol

[KamaAina]

2. Yes, but the Dem was Lieberman

and the R was Lowell Weicker, who shortly thereafter left the repukes and got himself elected Governor of Conn. as the candidate of "A Connecticut Party".

You didn't see Weicker having state contractors work on his vacation home, now, did you? Those were the days...

[salin]

50. Didn't live there... but had just left DC

and was very impressed with Sen Weicker. It was the only race I can remember rooting for the Republican (who was more liberal) to win. Woulda cast that same vote if I had the chance.

There was one election where the democrat running for senator was very incompetent - compared to a respectable, but too conservative for my tastes, republican. The Repub was a shoe-in. I didn't cast a vote in that race. To the best of my memory that was the closest I came to voting for a republican. Interestingly, for years I swore I never voted by party - read every stand very carefully - and still ended up voting straight (d) ticket.

[BurtWorm]

54. That was my one and only R vote, too!

:hi: (I was a student in Connecticut in 1988.)

[Paragon]

3. I did...my first opportunity to vote was a Republican primary in 92

So my brother and I voted for Pat Buchanan as a goof/protest vote against Poppy. We, of course, voted for Bill in the subsequent election...

[galadrium]

4. that does not count... since you were not voting to elect a repub

[NMDemDist2]

12. i voted in repub primaries for years and was registered repub

til last January. I would vote in their primary, then mess em all up by voting a straight Dem ticket in the general

I will share one thing about the two parties, when I was a repub they never contacted me at all (California or Arizona), as soon as i was a registered Dem they called me before every election (usually twice a couple days apart)

they were always ready to educate me if I had questions on the issues or candidates in these calls.

I am so proud of the Democratic Party here in Arizona

[Alerter_]

22. Democrats have no choice but to GOTV

GOTV for Democrats is like herding cats. Republican GOTV is like herding sheep, they don't take much to lead around. Democrats are stubborn and make you work for their vote :)

[Doctor Pedantic]

5. Please, please, please forgive me.

1984.

Nineteen years old.

Fundamentalist Christian from a small, conservative farm town.

"Southern Democrat" who couldn't stand Mondale.

So yes, I held my nose and voted (absentee, from my year abroad program in Germany) for the Devil himself.

Sigh.

Thankfully, I quickly rebounded and by 1988 was busting my butt walking precincts and phone banking for Dukakis!

[Skittles]

42. I SHOULD KICK YOUR ASS

but, you said it nicely so you are forgiven. :)

[flowomo]

65. more importantly, it proves people can change their thinking...

if that's were not true, what would be the point of campaigning or working for a candidate?

[Skittles]

76. that's true

I think of that whenever I hear wingnuts bring up Byrd's KKK past - they act as if people never change. What a horrifying thought that is.

[dflprincess]

6. Yes with an explanation

it was in a local school board race that's technically nonpartisan. The choice was between a moderate Republican and a real wingnut.

[KG]

7. reagan in '84.

but i was young and foolish then.

i'm old and foolish now, that's why i'm an uber lefty.

[Tinoire]

30. KG- You've broken my heart!

but you're forgiven for having seen the light and become an uber-Lefty :)

:hi:

[salin]

52. can I tell you

this (the 1984 vote) surprised me... I guess we all have surprising secrets...

Meanwhile I was sitting in Arlington, Va on the eve of that election, tossing back some beers and throwing out all of the scenarios underwhich the group hanging out forsaw that Mondale could win... have had to work a little on my political analysis skills since then...

[jonnyblitz]

99. .....

:wow:

[amber dog democrat]

9. Never once

and I have been voting since 1972.

[LibDemAlways]

66. Me too

I proudly voted for McGovern in 72 - had just turned 18. Have voted straight Dem ever since on the theory that the worst Dem is better than the best repuke.

[KansDem]

10. Anderson in 1980...

...is as close as I got.

[unblock]

11. yes, weld(r-tolerable) over silber(d-nazi)

how silber managed to get the nomination i'll never know, but weld was about as tolerable as republicans get, and silber was a psychotic nazi.

i have to say, though, in today's climate, where party matters so much more than individual candidate, i'd think far more carefully about that vote.

[jjmalonejr]

33. I voted for Weld, too!

Wasn't that a weird gubernatorial election? Like we had a choice with a guy like Silber on the ballot as the Dem.

Weld, enormously popular social liberal Repub really gave Kerry a run for his money in 1996, and Kerry still beat him. Have faith in Kerry...he will beat Bush, even if it means an 11th hour surge!

[Wickerman]

13. When I lived in Texas I voted against the Bush family evrey chance I got

that meant voting in the Repug primary every cycle. I didn't even feel bad voting for John McCain - by then the Carolina attach was common knowledge and I felt pretty damn sorry for someone who had served his country so well to be treated so poorly.

I can't recall who I voted for against Dole?

[otohara]

14. The Horror, The Horror

proud to say I have never voted GOP

[Walt Starr]

15. I wouldn't vote for a Republican even if my own mother

was a Republican candidate for any office!

[Betty]

16. William Weld for Gov

of Massachusetts when he was running against John Silber. I couldn't vote for Silber, he's such a vicious bastaard.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

49. Bill Weld also-Silber was way more conservative

Bill is an old style Yankee Republican.

[bookman]

17. In the past and this year

I did vote for so called liberal Republicans years ago. And this year I actually voted in the Republican primary. I'm in a part of Texas that has Republicans and Wing-nut Republicans. Last time I didn't even have a Democratic choice for Congress.

I have never voted for a Republican Presidential Candidate.

[galadrium]

18. well... i dont think voting in repub primaries counts

[nonconformist]

19. Yep, voted for McCain in the Michigan Primary against Bush

Then voted for Gore in the GE.

*devil ears*

[galadrium]

21. That was a noble deed... McCain is the best the repubs have to offer.

[NMDemDist2]

23. OK I'll fess up, if there's a Dem on the ticket i vote for him

but if not i vote for McCain. While i disagree with him on so many issues, he at least has some integrity

[tom_paine]

20. Before 1998...roughly 30% of my votes were R

I always, as much as possible, studied the races and voted strictly the person. I then voted my conscience.

Obviously, as the Bushevik Takeover (I didn't think of it in those words or even close back then...I was ignorant but knew SOMETHING was rong and getting wronger) became more obvious in the 90s, my R votes started drying up, not because of a party-line vow but because I was suddenly always so angry at them.

My last R vote was in 1996 for State Attorney General.

As I said, I cast a fair amount of them in the 80s, so there's no keeping track of how many before '96, except to say there probably weren't many in 1994 because Gingrich was such an asshole, now I know him to be a Totalitarian Asshole.

[MuseRider]

24. I was always

mainly a democrat but would look at all candidates. I can't even recall who or when or what for that I voted Republican. Most likely here in Kansas the Republican was actually the better candidate because many of the Dems we get are little more than DINOs. That is not always the case though. Mostly I voted straight Democratic. I can say this now with every fiber of my being that I will NEVER vote for another Republican as long as I live. I don't care who the Democrat is I will vote for them or a third party but NEVER ever Republican again. NEVER.

[DRoseDARs]

25. Yes: The Republican candidate was qualified, the Democrat wasn't

It was a county-level position some years ago and the Republican had a background in environmental sciences whereas the Democrat did something completely different for a living prior.

I know, I know. Republicans are largely anti-breathable air, drinkable water, livable land, but it was my first election and I hadn't grown embittered yet.

The following month, the US Supreme Court selected Bush...

[sandnsea]

26. Once, for a friend

Other than that, nope. Especially not after Reagan.

[union_maid]

27. Once and I regrettted it.

It was in a congressional election and the Democratic challenger wasn't exactly a real candidate or a real Democrat for that matter. It was '92 and he was endorsing Perot. The incumbent had seemed to be a moderate Republican which seemed like a very good thing as the Republican party was shifting to the wingnut side. It turned out that the congressman went right over to the dark side, but it didn't matter that much in the long run, because, as I say, there wasn't a real candidate on the other side and the election was never in any real question.

[SoFlaJet]

28. YES I voted for

Georg Herman Walker Bush or 41 as they say.But I must qualify my reasoning;I always considered myself a person who voted for the person not the party.I looked at the world situation and the two guys running and thought Poppy would be better than Dukakis.92 and 96 Big Dog happily got my vote.Then came 2000 when I went w/my wife and son to vote down here in Florida only to find my name had been purged by Katherine Harris.The reason given to me was that b/c I didn't vote in the mid terms they took me off the rolls.Now I will NEVER VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN AGAIN because of that I don't care who it is McCain or any other likable repub.NEVER AGAIN.They fucked up when they fucked with me.Now I'm an activist tipping ever further to the left just this side of Lenin.

[SoFlaJet]

29. YES I voted for

Georg Herman Walker Bush or 41 as they say.But I must qualify my reasoning;I always considered myself a person who voted for the person not the party.I looked at the world situation and the two guys running and thought Poppy would be better than Dukakis.92 and 96 Big Dog happily got my vote.Then came 2000 when I went w/my wife and son to vote down here in Florida only to find my name had been purged by Katherine Harris.The reason given to me was that b/c I didn't vote in the mid terms they took me off the rolls.Now I will NEVER VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN AGAIN because of that I don't care who it is McCain or any other likable repub.NEVER AGAIN.They fucked up when they fucked with me.Now I'm an activist tipping ever further to the left just this side of Lenin.

[edbermac]

31. Ditto for Weld

Voted for Weld as Mass governor. He was pro-choice and a Grateful Deadhead to boot.

[rebellious woman]

82. Weld.....

[Generator]

32. That would be hell no

I was just shy of being old enough to vote AGAINST Reagan and I remember the night he won, an omnious fog covered the streets and I knew the world was not going to be a-okay.

Hell, I threw a fit in the second grade when my Mom told me she voted for Nixon. We had a mock vote in class and we all wanted McGovern and as I remember it we also preferred the "socialist system" like Sweden to the US. :)

[UTUSN]

34. 1 Time. The Dem, 15 Yrs of Corruption n/t

[TheFarseer]

35. I've never voted a straight ticket

I vote for the best person. More often than not, that's a democrat. Before I moved from Nebraska, it was an honor and a privilege to vote for Tom Osborne. I think TO's opponent voted for him, that was the most pathetic race in history.

[Kal Belgarion]

36. Of course. My Congressman's a RINO

Sherwood Bohlert's a RINO, through and through. You know, one of those pro-environment, pro-choice, pro-civil liberties, pro-livable wage Republicans. :)

Sure, every few months he has to say something good about Bush, and every election he has to fight off a challenge from a *real* Republican, but most of the Republicans in my district are dumb enough to vote for Bohlert because:

a) He's been our congressman for 20+ years.
b) He has an (R) next to his name.

[KharmaTrain]

37. When In Rome...

I have lived in some heavily Repugnican areas. In the 80's, I lived in a town where I swear I was the only Democrat...or at least it appeared that way when I would vote in General Elections. For many of the local offices, the Repugnican primary WAS the election and I would vote in them (didn't have to register, and would never vote for a Repugnican for a statewide or federal office).

In 1988, I had some fun in the Repugnican primary...I was planning to vote for several "lesser evil" Repugnicans who were on the ballot for local and countywide offices...but while I was at it, figured I'd have some fun and voted for the most outlandish, conservative Repugnicans I could (Pat Robertson was one, another was a local bible-thumper-turned-pol who was running for Senate...a year later he was convicted for sex with a hooker and hasn't been seen/heard from since...LOL.

My wife voted for Ford in '76 (her first election, a year before we started going out)...I've made sure she hasn't voted for a Repugnican since and this November, we'll welcome another Democrat, my daughter , who can't wait to vote for Kerry...and in 2006, my son, whose more Progressive than his own man, will cast his first Democratic votes. My family now represents 5 generations of proud Democrats.

[BlueJazz]

38. In my entire life...Not even once. n/t

[Tinoire]

39. Never ever ever NEVER.

I was born with a Republican-hating gene ;) gently nurtured by two extremely well informed parents who could see through all the crap.

[Philostopher]

51. Same here.

Though I did refuse to vote for a Dem a few years back because s/he (I don't remember, probably he) ran a seriously dirty smear campaign for county sheriff. I never saw any Dem play that dirty, and I was so sickened by it I just didn't vote for either of them. I told Mr. Nownow it made me a little sad, that this person felt compelled to run like a Republican -- I couldn't bring myself to condone the behavior. Thing is, this person actually had a chance at winning until the smear campaign, but was beaten rather badly because clearly I wasn't the only Dem who didn't think much of the behavior.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

53. Same here

My Democratic mom was pregnant with me when the Eisenhower/Nixon ticket was elected the first time. That's why I consider myself born with a hatred of Republicans. My union organizer dad would rise from his grave and chase me down with a baseball bat if I ever punched a GOP name on a ballot.

I miss them both but in a way I'm glad they were gone before the current criminals came to power. They would have either gone crazy or dropped dead from the shock of seeing their decades of hard work undone. :(

[Zorra]

61. LOL. I was born with the republican hating gene also.

I have seen right through them intuitively, maybe since the day I was born. I did not even have the benefit of well informed parents.

Republicans never do anything that is good for the human race, or for anything else that is natural.

[Left_Wing_Fox]

40. Olympia Snowe R-Maine

Yes, I voted for Olympia Snowe in 2002. Of course, she's a "RINO" (Republican In Name Only) according to this administration, and well to the left of Miller or Leiberman.

I regret it now, but not because of Snowe. She had a good history of voting her conscience and for the people of Maine, and did me proud on her opposition to the Bush tax cuts. Until last year, I thought the system was still mostly intact, and could reward a politician who largely voted for sound legislation, even if they were on the opposing side of the aisle. Since then, I've come to realize just how far to the right the system has been pushed, and how dangerous the current Republican party is to America and our Democracy.

IMHO; It's too important bring in progressive liberals to vote for even "sane" members of the Republican party this year.

[Skittles]

41. ABSOLUTELY F***ING NOT

NO F***ING WAY

[QC]

43. Once.

In the town where I used to live, the probate judge, who is head of the county commission and thus pretty powerful, was an old-style Boss Hogg politician. Corrupt as hell, and had been in office for over twenty years, taking money under the table. He was a Democrat.

His opponent was running on a reform platform. He was a professor at the university where I was teaching, and his son was a student of mine. The family had been receiving anonymous phone calls warning them that they would be hurt or killed if he did not drop out, but he stayed in the race and made a good, though losing, showing.

How could I not have voted for the Republican in this specific case?

That's my only time, though--the circumstances have to be pretty compelling.

[galadrium]

well... even I would have to vote repub if the Dem was crooked as hell

At least you were informed enough to know who the better candidate was. The one good thing about repubs is, they keep the Democrats honest.

[maveric]

44. Yes, and sadly it was for Roger Hedgecock. Mayor of San Diego

I was apolitical at the time and he was the lesser of the two evils.

[bigwillq]

45. I did twice

My sister's friend's mom ran for mayor of our town. I voted for her the first time (she won), I voted for her for her second term (she won) and then her third time running she got to greedy and snobbish and I didn't vote for her (she lost). That's it though.

[fishnfla]

46. I'm actually a registered republican now

(this ought to do wonders for everyone who thinks I'm a freeper mole)Hi Guys! Dont forget to bookmark this!

Florida is a closed primary state, I switched parties last time to vote for McCain in the GOP primary (Gore was a lock here, and I was ABB before it was cool) He got swamped in South Carolina by the Rove Nazi smear machine, so I never actually voted for him. I just never switched back yet.

[osaMABUSh]

47. Only Tom Ridge Pa. Gov - we went to the same Catholic school

I voted for Repub. Tom Ridge (current Homeland Security Chief) for Governor of Pennsylvania. Two reasons: We both went to the same Catholic Grade School in Erie, Pa. (not at the same time, Ridge is about 10 years older than me) and his brother was in the group I used to hang with in my single days.

Besides that I never, ever, ever voted for another Repub. I did vote John Anderson (Independent) for President in 1980.

[mitchum]

Never

[hyphenate]

48. I guess I actually did

It was 1980. I hated Ronald Reagan, and while I liked Jimmy Carter, I didn't feel he was powerful enough to rescue the hostages in Iran. So I voted for John Anderson. I still like Anderson. I hear he's mostly retired from active politics, but he's involved in some thinktanks and philanthropic groups. So yes, while I might never ever do it again, I did vote for someone who was a Republican. Once.

[starroute]

55. I grew up in NYC where the game was keeping the Democrats honest

If the Democrats seemed to be playing it straight, you'd vote for their candidate. If they'd been getting weasely lately, you might vote for the Democratic candidate on a third-party line or might vote for a separate third-party candidate. And if the Republicans put up someone with integrity, there was no shame in voting Republican. You might even vote for a Republican or two anyway (in minor offices where it didn't matter much) on the grounds that voting straight party line would make the Democrats get sloppy and forget who was paying their way.

However, by the time I was old enough to vote (it was age 21 in those days), I was out of college and living away from home, so I never actually got to register in New York. I still did my best to split my ticket in the way I'd learned from my parents, but it just wasn't the same, and I eventually gave up trying. I honestly can't remember whether I even actually voted for a Republican back then, but I certainly might have. Things were very different in the 1970's.


On edit: I should point out that when I was a kid in the Fifties, the Democratic Party in New York City was still dominated by Tammany Hall, while the Democratic governor was Bush-cohort Averell Harriman. Compared to that, people like Republican Senator Jacob Javits had to look good.

[DFLforever]

56. Yeah, me and 2/3's of the Dem party in MN

voted for moderate Repub Dave Durenberger over Reagan Dem Bob Short for the US Senate in early 1980's.

I also voted for a Repub state senator in St. Paul, an excellent old fashioned mod/liberal Repub who would make some Dems today look like the Bush toe-suckers they are.

[Syncronaut Seven]

57. Mister....

There are just some things I WONT do.

Not for $50 anyway.

[Zorra]

58. OMG!!!. I cannot believe how many people at DU have voted republican!

Look, y'all, anyone that sympathizes with republican "issues", please don't try to influence the Democratic Party to go any more to the right.

Republicans have fucked up our country and the entire world. It is my sincere hope that you understand that the primary function of the republican party is to insure that corporations are the primary voice in our government. That is the basis of republican ideology.

Republicans have never done anything good for our country.

Never, ever trust a republican, and never, ever vote for one. I hope Bu$h has made this perfectly clear to you.

[nonconformist]

60. Well in my case, it was a strategic vote

A vote for McCain was a vote not for Bush in Michigan in the 2000 primary. Lot's of Dems did that, and it worked. McCain won MI and Bush's head exploded.

[Zorra]

62. No sane, reasonable person could fault you for that. n/t

[galadrium]

67. There are probably alot of freeper trolls affecting the results.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

59. I voted for McCain against Bush in the primary in 2000, that's it. nt

[flowomo]

63. In our local elections, the party labels often have no meaning....

Things like township or county commissioner or sheriff or prothonotary. I've voted for lots of Republicans who were decent people and good public servants. Many of the Dems were fools. The party labels have little meaning until you hit the big city/state level.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

64. It was a vote for Mark Hatfield for Senate

Hatfield is one of the old-style Oregon Republicans, one of the group that set up the state's pioneering environmental and land-use laws and was against intervention in Latin America.

They don't have his kind in the Republican party anymore.

I am proud to say that I was never taken in by Bob Packwood. A lot of Oregon women voted for him because he was so pro-choice, even though he was a fan of Reaganomics--as if his Democratic opponents weren't pro-choice. I refrained from laughing and saying, "I told you so" when the sexual harassment scandal broke.

[bacchant]

68. Never have, never will

They're all brain damaged

[Peregrine]

69. Came close to voting for Ehlich in MD

Townsend was such a train wreck and totally clueless. The Baltimore Sun once quipped, "why did we get the only Kennedy without any charisma?" At the end of the Glendening administration, Townsend people were being moved into place so they could assume cabinet positions. I knew most of them, and I knew that most of them were incompetent asses or just plain crooks.

But I was saved by Ehlich's late effort to get Democratic votes by putting 3 prominent Democrats front and center in his campaign: Marvin Mandel, Clarence Mitchell III, and Bruce Bareano. Mandel of course was a crooked former governor of the state, Mitchell a state senator who never met a favor that couldn't be bought, and Bareano a lobbyist who just got out of prison.

[Trajan]

70. Never ever ....

Ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ....

[Kat45]

71. Yes. Before the religious right hijacked the repub party

There used to be some republicans who were pretty liberal, particularly here in Mass. Sometimes the repub candidate was more liberal than the dem candidate.

[Peregrine]

72. If I had the opportunity

I would have voted for Charles McC. Mathias, former senator from Maryland.

[TexasDem]

73. Convert here too

I converted over in the 1992 election. I was raised republican and never really thought about voting any other way until Ross Perot. Ross Perot got me to first consider voting for someone other than a republican and once my mind opened to other possibilities Clinton won me over.

I clearly remember being at the voting station that year and still being undecided. I remember thinking Clinton's positive message of what America could be under him f he was elected is what got my vote.

I've never looked back and now am a die-hard democrat and so is my brother. Funny I recently found out my mother's family, especially her grandmother, tried to stop her from marrying my father because he was a republican -- her family were die hards too. I know great-great grandmother is looking down and smiling.

I feel at home :)

[MrSlayer]

74. Yes, voted for Daddy Bush twice before I became politically aware.

Was just doing what my Dad asked, I had no interest in politics at the time.

[scarletwoman]

75. Born and bred Democrat, have NEVER voted for a Republican!

I was raised on the adage, "Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the little guy", and stayed true to the Democratic party from my first vote for McGovern in '72 onward. (Would that the Democratic Party had stayed true to THEIR half of that adage - *sigh* - but that's another story...)

sw

[aquaman]

77. Proud to say hell no.......

I have never voted for a repug. I have already informed my wife that if, in growing older, I become more conservative, to immediately shoot me. She agreed to do so and we have a signed agreement that our lawyer drafted up stating such.

[devinsgram]

78. Yes,

but when I was dumb and stupid. I was easily influenced by my parents at the time. Then I grew up and starting thinking on my own. Now I deeply regret that I voted for Raygun the first time. Since then I have mostly voted for democrats, except in 1994 when Singleton ran against Ridge for governor of PA. I couldn't bring myself to vote for either one, so I voted for an independent candidate.

[Solly Mack]

79. I'm genetically hardwired against voting republican

my dislike of republicans is that deep...to the core, baby! to the core!

[NewYorkerfromMass]

80. I am too, but in '93 I voted for Giuliani (his first term)

because Dinkins was just terrible.
In '97 I voted against Rudy as he had overstayed his welcome.
In Massachusetts I believe my mom really liked Ed Brooke (African American/Republican Senator), but he was a different sort of Republican, not like what we have today.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

81. Never have, never will.

I inherited the Republican hating gene from my family as well.

When my husband became a citizen in 1999 and was eligible to vote, I told him if he ever even thought about voting for a Repuke, my Dad would haunt him.

He took my advice..

[noonwitch]

83. I voted for John McCain in the 2000 Michigan Primary

I had several good reasons.

1. The democratic nominee was pretty much wrapped up at that point, so I didn't see a reason to vote in their caucus.
2. The governor of Michigan at the time was fat boy, who promised to deliver Michigan to Bush. The union (and Geoffrey Fieger)strongly encouraged it's members to go vote for McCain to make Engler look bad.
3. I feared that that idiot would somehow find his way into the white house and everything I feared a Bush Presidency would bring us has come true (except we haven't nuked anyone, yet). I figured that McCain would do a better job than Bush, even though I still planned to vote for Gore in the fall.

[Maeve]

84. Sure--but the last time nationally was for Ford

I was young.

[Th1onein]

85. NEVER!

Not once in my entire life.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

86. Yes. Twice. Clinton.

[indepat]

87. Yes, but that was before I had a smidgen of knowledge, a lick of sense or

knew my ass from a hole in the ground: I wised up in the early 1970s.

[Az]

88. Not sure how to vote

I have never voted Repuke in an actual election. But I did vote for McCain in the Michigan Primary to send a message to Engler and Bush. I was not alone in this. I found that everyone standing in line with me when I cast my vote was a pissed off Dem looking to shove McCain down Englers throat.

[MallRat]

89. Weld

The one and only Republican I ever voted for. Socially progressive, fiscally moderate, and smart as a whip. I would even argue that he was more progressive than half the Democrats on Beacon Hill, especially the social conservatives from the Southie political machine. He was part of a dying breed in the GOP.

It also speaks volumes that John Kerry was able to beat him handily back in '96.

Think about it: if Kerry was able to defeat an intelligent, articulate, centrist, popular governor during good economic times, then what is he going to do to an incurious, inarticulate, reactionary, widely-despised President during bad economic times?

-MR

[lapislzi]

90. There was no Dem!

...and the other option was the Conservative/RTL ticket. I wasn't going THERE!

[NormanConquest]

91. Once, but it was for a very good reason...

...to keep BFI from building a landfill in my hometown, around 1991. I voted for a Republican town supervisor whose mission was to drive BFI out of town.

Browning Ferris had been eyeing my hometown as a waste disposal site for a while--it had no zoning laws prohibiting landfills (actually, it had no zoning laws at all!), and because of NY's onerous property taxes there were many margin-walking farmers who were eager to make a deal.

For reasons still unknown to me, the parties' identities in my hometown (Western NY) are flipped...circa 1991, the Republicans tended to be the better-educated, environmentally-responsible ones, whereas the Democrats were the ones tempted by BFI's pillow-talk of jobs and easy money.

[Rob in B_more]

92. I continue to vote against William Donald Schaffer

If the Greens, or Libraterians, or Reform Party, would put some one up against him, then they will get my vote instead of the Rethugs.
But I refuse to vote for that man,(his endosement of Bush 41 over Clinton, his recent coments on multiculturism {of all the reasons to not eat at McDonalds he wont go there because some poor cashier struggles with English})he is a Dino if there ever was one. If I have to vote for a rethug I will at least vote for one that is labeled properly. Well honestly if the rethug had achance of winning I might reconsider depending who they are, but Schaffer can't be in politics too much longer.

Give Peace a Chance

[southpaw]

93. I was young and dumb in 1984...

Voted for Reagan...

Mea Culpa...

[xultar]

94. I do Write Ins instead...but I don't care if a Dem has voted for a Repug

that is democracy!

[gpandas]

95. you kidden' me?

[Eurobabe]

96. yes, don't vote ideologies

flame me if you must.

[banana republican]

97. NIXON LIED

[RichardRay]

98. Nope, but I always look

just in case something has changed. Locally I have been tempted since several good D's have registered as R's in Teton County just to have a bigger field to play in, but so far it hasn't gotten me across the fence.