Where are you in the Democratic Party?

[...of J.Temperance]

Where are you in the Democratic Party?

:popcorn:

[...of J.Temperance]

1. I voted, I'm in the Center, I'm a Centrist and I'm NOT ashamed of that

Not at all.

[donheld]

7. "I voted, I'm on the Left, I'm a Leftist and I'm NOT ashamed of that"

Wouldn't have it any other way.

[...of J.Temperance]

11. 'Um

That was a cute comeback...and humorous too :)

[Bjornsdotter]

16. I'm ambidextrous and I'm NOT ashamed of that!

Oh crap...sorry that must have been a different poll. :popcorn:

Yeah i"m on the left too.

Carry on.

Cheers!

[...of J.Temperance]

19. Hey...

Ambidextrous...ya think this is a sex poll or something? Huh?

:rofl:

Just kiddin', I know that means you can write with both hands.

[Bjornsdotter]

27. Lol n/t

[...of J.Temperance]

41. Shucks, it was nothing :) n/t

[FlemingsGhost]

2. On the outside, looking in ...

half the time, shaking my head, the other half laughing my ass off.

[Greyhound]

3. No vote. I'm all over the board and just don't fit in.

Some issues I'm with the party, some I'm way left of the party on, and a few I'm way right of the party. So let's party! :toast:

[...of J.Temperance]

8. You sort

Of sound a bit like me. There's things that I'm Liberal on, nearly ALL social issues...then there's things that I'm conservative on...NOTE that's with a small "c", which are a FEW social issues and some economic issues.

Heck I LOVE those little icons, they're so cute :bounce:

I'll give you a regular party icon, complete with a hat :party:

On Edit: A politician that I met last year described me as "the perfect Centrist", and I was very proud of that. In fact I had a celebration afterwards involving some Stella Artois :)

[Nite Owl]

21. Well I voted left

but am/was a 'c' on economic issues. Problem is they went and moved the middle on us so that makes me left. I guess maybe being a 'c' always included the military bugdet too so maybe I was always to the left. Don't really know anymore.

[...of J.Temperance]

26. I know

These times are confusing, I'm often VERY confused myself with where we're at as a party.

[Raine]

54. Same here

though I voted the middle cause I don't fit liberal or conservative. :shrug:

[emanymton]

4. Not! Democratic Party Is Way Too Much GOP-Lite For Me....

needs to return to social roots.

[Seabiscuit]

5. Left side by default only - until another viable party comes along.

[shenmue]

6. Over here!

On the left.

[TahitiNut]

9. Nowhere.

'We welcome Democrats of all stripes, along with other progressives who will work with us to achieve our shared goals. While the vast majority of our visitors are Democrats, this web site is not affiliated with the Democratic Party, nor do we claim to speak for the party as a whole.

I regard the presumption in the poll as offensive.

[meganmonkey]

13. Mmm hmmm...None of the above.

Raging independent, myself. I would put myself 2 or 3 steps further left than that poll allows :shrug:

[...of J.Temperance]

17. Bizarrely...I'm going to alert the adminstration to MYSELF

I'm going to ALERT MYSELF to them and see if they think that my poll breaks the board rules...if it does, then they can either lock it or delete it.

On Edit: Dammit spelling error.

[meganmonkey]

18. Why don't you just edit it to have the option of 'other'?

That should cover it :shrug:

[...of J.Temperance]

22. Heck...I added "Other", but so far only a tiny amount of people are "Other

I've already sent the darn alert now.

[Dances with Cats]

10. You and your polls!

Dirty white is waaaaayyy out there on the left fringe. Can you hear me baby? Yoo-hoo?!?. Don't know if you can see me or hear me way down there, haha....

[Dances with Cats]

12. That was my 100th

POST, haha. Yup, I'm so far to the left I can hear the kook right faintly grumbling. But ya gotta listen hard. For now. Remember, the Unibomber (far left) and Tim McVeigh (far right), actually found alot of common ground in prison. So the story goes. But McVeigh was a coward. The least he coulda did was blow up with his own bomb.

[...of J.Temperance]

15. Ah love mah polls! So ah do :)

You dirty white boy you ;)

Of course I can hear you, way down here...I do my most talented work way down...here :)

[northerdar]

14. the next candidates for demos are not the ones now running

I don't have any leanings to vote for Biden, Clinton, Kerry, Edwards. I don't want anyone who caters to Israel. Definitely not Lieberman. I want someone who will admit to a mistake "absolutely" like Murtha did last week. I don't want anyone who is a dual citizen either. I want a real truth seeker, like Waxman or Conyers.

[Dances with Cats]

20. I want someone who can win

and not sell out the base doing so. We got one outta two with Clinton. We need a firebreather who will fight like hell to get back all that has been taken from us these past five years. We nede: "A Troubled Man for Troubled Times." Ok, I'll run, haha....

[...of J.Temperance]

30. That candidate that you speak of is...

In my opinion John Edwards or Wesley Clark, both are firebreathers. I do have Mark Warner in my candidates too, but I've not heard him do much talking, so I can't say if he's a firebreather.

But I like Edwards, Clark and Warner.

[Dances with Cats]

33. Yeah Edwards

his populist message shoud resonate! Maybe Clark as Veep? (save Ford for 2012 or 2016? Hmmmm?)

[...of J.Temperance]

39. Edwards

That's my ticket, Edwards/Clark or Clark/Edwards...or Edwards/Warner and Clark for Secretary of State...considering he can't be Secretary of Defense until 10 years after he's left the military.

I consider myself a Populist Centrist, I'm a Centrist with a strong Populist streak.

Ford Jr. is a doll, and we need to keep our eyes on him.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

23. one from column a, one from b, and even a bit of c

[BillZBubb]

24. Far left of the party.

To me the party has moved a great deal rightward trying to make inroads with conservatives.

[xxqqqzme]

25. depends on which Democratic Party

we're talkin' about - if it is the dlc controlled party, I am waaaaay 2 the left; if it is the traditional DP w/ its roots in social justice, the middle class and education, then I'm a moderate.

[salin]

28. which democratic party?

definitely to the left of the Indiana democratic party. Smack dab in the middle of the California democratic party (where I lived in the nineties), was in the middle of the early nineties urban democratic party in Michigan - and was to the left of the Virginia democratic party of Gov Chuck Robb and Gerry Balisle when I lived there in the mid eighties.

As if there is a monolithic democratic party - everything is relative.

[HereSince1628]

29. Hahahahahahah! This is one of those nu-democrats trick questions right?

Like there is a "center" to the party that is somehow central to the national politics.

Let's be honest. The middle has failed, look at 6 years of middlin national democratic non-initiative. They are unable to do much but apologize and run for cover.

Being an opposition requires being opposite. Sometimes REALLY opposite. Currently, being in the center of the democratic party means being part of the mainstream of the democratic base, and that mainstream is very well left of the depopulated national center.

Only the democratic politicians believe there is something like a swing vote in the center.

[Dances with Cats]

34. I'm miles

left of the mainstream demo. Whatever teh FUCK that is!

[thereismore]

31. I am not even "in" the democratic party. nt

[tmooses]

32. I've always voted Dem, but lately they seem like some dysfunctional

family-with aunts in the attic,uncles on the take and nephews on a crusade.

[...of J.Temperance]

35. Hey WHAT'S wrong with dysfunctional families, haven't you HEARD of

AND



These families got along VERY WELL!

[tmooses]

55. Thanks for the flashback, J. Temperance. I don't know what I was thinking

-You rang, sir!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

36. I'm pretty damn left.

If I do say so myself.

:D :D

[Warren DeMontague]

37. I'm on the Left-LIBERTARIAN side of the Democratic Party

not to be confused with the left-authoritarian side.

[Kolesar]

38. Halving the defense budget puts me...where?

:)

[kliljedahl]

40. I'm not in the democratic party

registered Independent & will stay that way.

[...of J.Temperance]

42. This is okay, because I LOVE your cartoons :) n/t

[greiner3]

43. Anderson was the only non-democrat I ever voted for;

I believed the hype back then as I was not very political at the time. I consider myself a socialist economically and far-left on social matters. I know that the DP could never approach the platforms I do so I vote dems. I do not envision myself ever voting rep or indy.

[kliljedahl]

45. I actually registered as a Repuke

to vote for him in the Iowa caucus. When it was done I changed back to Independent.

[...of J.Temperance]

49. Who is Anderson?

Back then you said...back when?

Sorry, I was born in 1978...so chances are I missed this Anderson fellow.

[greiner3]

61. Sorry;

John Anderson, a Rep (Senator?) who ran as a third party candidate in 1980. I did not trust Carter. Damn my distrust of fundamentalists, damn it all to hell.

[Odin2005]

44. I'm A Green/Socialist

Untill we get PR and have a multiparty system, I'm stuck voting Democrat, and trying to pull the party to the Left.

:patriot:

[Blue_In_AK]

46. I think I'm probably left, but not WAY left...

I always show up right around the Dalai Lama on those "political compass" tests.

[Odin2005]

60. Hey!

So do I. :toast:

[meow2u3]

47. I'm in the center-left POPULIST wing of the Dem Party

as opposed to the right-wing hustlers posing as centrist Democrats who think selling out to corporations is an American value.

[...of J.Temperance]

50. Hey that's not me :(

I'm a Centrist Democrat...although I suppose I'd be a Center-Populist.

I don't agree with selling out to corporations, and there are many Centrists like me who don't agree with selling out to corporations either, not ALL Centrists are right-wing hustlers.

I do know what you're saying though, and those that you speak off, I wish they'd just leave the party and go where they belong, because they're giving PROPER Centrists a bad name.

:cry:

[DemGirl7]

48. I'm on the left side of the Democratic Party

Personally I think that the Democratic Party has become very Republican-lite in nature thanks to the DLC, and I find myself agreeing more with Liberal/Progressive Democrats on the issues. If the Democrat party continues to become Republican-lite in nature, I'm thinking about leaving it to rot, though I'm unsure of where to go party wise, because I like to call myself a Democrat, but I hate explaining that I don't support the ideas of many of them.

[pinto]

51. small town on Central California coast...

:dem:

[formernaderite]

52. I'm a progressive...that should make me

a typical democrat, but the way the party seemed to be heading over the last 13 years, it's seems I'm now an "other".

[mb7588a]

53. progressivism..

in the traditional sense is difficult to compare to current democrats, but in terms of social justice, progressives are farther left, other things like fiscal conservatism they're more centrists... hard to define us progries.

[itzamirakul]

56. Left

I hate to say it but I think the centrists are the ones that are keepin g us OUT OF OFFICE.

What is the difference between a Centrist Democrat and a Republican?
Answer: None

[Freedomfried]

57. I'm a disgusted spectator.

e0m

[Qibing Zero]

58. Far far over to the left, and then off on a random z-axis tangent.

Hey, you asked!

[MercutioATC]

59. Center in the general population...

...probably the right side of the Party here at DU.